Posted on 04/21/2002 12:15:56 PM PDT by PsyOp
Dude... Whats up? I went to Aptos High School (class of 80), off Freedom Blvd. Small world. As I recall, KPIG used to be a country western station.
Used to be KFAT. Ever go to the Fat Fry or Swine Soire?
Yes we are neighbors. I'm down here on the South end of the Monterey Bay, have made forays to the logic free zones or Bermuda Triangle of common sense (Santa Cruz - Monterey, Beerkeley, SF) many times. FReep mail me...
We have the freedom to analyze Freedom through the eyes of our Founding Fathers, while our kids' friends at yon local public school spend their days on what their socialist teachers think makes this country great: Martin Luther King, environmentalist theories, and diversity training. Even my 7-year-old has memorized the Preamble to the Constitution, and I have them write as well as memorize quotes such as these.
Thanks for providing us with a motherlode of goodies here!
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." --Thomas Jefferson
Our spirits are living bayonets. The ideals which we carry in our hearts are more deadly to the enemy than any man-made weapons." Coningsby Dawson
"By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites of their eyes" Frederick the Great at the battle of Praque 1757
"The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about" Field Marshal Prince Aleksandar Suvorov, The Science of Victory, 1796
"The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory" Napoleon
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets but he cannot sit on it." William R. Inge ( 02/00)
And that oldie but goodie from the cowboys of this great nation................."There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. And the rest of them who have to pee on an electric fence to learn for themselves."
Ya'll Stay Safe !
I like this one in particular:
ARMS - "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 17, 1787."
"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force." --Thomas Jefferson
"I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation." --George Washington
"It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights." --Benjamin Franklin.
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson.
"Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war let it begin here." — Captain John Parker at the Battle of Lexington.
"The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." — Thomas Paine.
"We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?" — John Page.
"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!" — George Washington.
"The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution." — John Adams.
"Patriotism itself is a necessary link in the golden chains of our affections and virtue." — Stephen Decatur.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." — Thomas Jefferson.
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" —Patrick Henry.
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" — Samuel Adams.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
- Vegetius
God Save The Republic!
CGVet58
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