Mamba56
Since Oct 10, 2004

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After reading John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" and studying the attendees of the The Hampton Court Conference I find myself a Deist...

Conservative, NRA Member, Ducati ridin' (05' ST4) Coast Guard Vet

Voting Conservative since 1974! A bit to the right of Attila the Hun. LOL

Proud to be a Founding Member of the National Black Republican Association

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy."
--George Washington, 1790

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
--President Ronald Reagan

The masses are stupid.
--Goethe

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except CONGRESS."
--Mark Twain

"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 he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared."
--Cicero, 42 B.C.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill

"Don't mourn these good men's death. Thank God that these men lived to fight for our nation".
--George Patton

"Only infidel blood can quench Muslim thirst"
-- Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away A man's incentive and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them What they could and should do themselves."
--Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech that was delivered in Springfield, Illinois on June 16, 1858.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? 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

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made politicians.”
--Mark Twain