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To: Jack Black


Like Winston Churchill said...,"because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
7 posted on 07/14/2010 7:11:40 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: mrmeyer

Or, “It is far better to die on your feet as a free man than die on your knees as a slave”.

Can’t remember who said that, but it is becoming more relevant every day.


23 posted on 07/14/2010 7:25:14 AM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (Alea Iacta Est)
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To: mrmeyer

Great quote from your bio:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC

Thanks. Very appropriate for this thread.


38 posted on 07/14/2010 7:40:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: mrmeyer

ping to #7


45 posted on 07/14/2010 7:44:46 AM PDT by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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“..Like Winston Churchill said...,”because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”..”

Churchill was wrong; Patton was right.

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country; he won it by making the other dumb bastard die for HIS country.”

Substitute “ideology” or “belief” for “country.

Just sayin’...


62 posted on 07/14/2010 8:37:28 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: mrmeyer
"the dead know only one thing, that it is better to be alive"
Full Metal Jacket
78 posted on 07/14/2010 9:29:43 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Government is made up of people, individuals who are largely ungoverned)
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