Quotes

[Lady Di]

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." --John Wayne


I love the John Wayne quotes!!! He was a true American, and he shared my maiden surname, Morrison, which makes him even better. :D

[Lady Di]

Here's a quote from another great American of that same era:

"I'm free to think and speak. My ancestors couldn't." --James Stewart

[Lady Di]

We can't leave Charlton Heston out.

"Only people free to own firearms can remain free people." --Charlton Heston


Have you noticed that Hollywood used to produce great men? What happened?!!! :shock:

[Lady Di]

I collect good quotes, so post them here.

"Sometimes gunpowder smells good." --Ralph Waldo Emerson


Here's one for you, St. Michael:

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." --Sigmund Freud :lol: :wink:

[Lady Di]

We can't leave my personal favorite out. Ronald Reagan, the Great Communicator, was my hero. This quote is dedicated to you, St. Michael. See, you and Uncle Ronnie had something in common. :lol:

“Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways.”
--Ronald Reagan

[Stubob]

There are some great ones out there!!!

John Wayne was one of my heros. He was one of the Hollywood group that could shoot snakes with a six shooter from a horse. He did that while he was growing up helping his dad farm.

Thanks for all of the other cool quotes! looking forward to others! :D

[Lady Di]

This is one that only a woman would dare to post. :lol:

“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home” --John Wayne

“I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women” --John Wayne


I loved it when we were not a politically correct society and men were free to speak their minds. :D

[Lady Di]

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

RONALD REAGAN, Reason Magazine, Jul. 1, 1975

[Stubob]

“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home” --John Wayne

I would like to see him pull that on this generation...... :shock:

[VegasGeorge]

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch..."

W.C. Fields

[Lady Di]

How 'bout this one Stubob? :lol:

"Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause - you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles." --John Wayne

[Lady Di]

Here's what John Wayne would say if confronted with a politically correct society.

"A man ought to do what he thinks is right" -
-- John wayne

[Bill of Rights]

I collect good quotes, so post them here.

"Sometimes gunpowder smells good." --Ralph Waldo Emerson


Here's one for you, St. Michael:

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." --Sigmund Freud :lol: :wink:

Well, one, THIS you quote to a man who doesn't smoke???


Two, though I searched, I did not find it on Google, therefore:

"Gunpowder is the smell of freedom" --me

and three, one from another BB on which I post rarely.

"The proper response to violent crime is equally violent, righteous self-defense. It's about personal responsibility; Why should anyone else be responsible for your safety and well-being if you will not?" --me

I am honored to be compared to Mr. Reagan by you. Thank you, Lady Di.

Blessings,
M

[Lady Di]

"Armed and literate. Two Amendments at once." --Charles Curley

Who is Charles Curley, you ask?

http://rkba.org/militia/milintro

[Lady Di]

"Republic. I like the sound of the word."

John Wayne as Col. David Crockett (The Alamo):

[Lady Di]

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

--Woodrow Wilson

[Stubob]

Thanks - :shock:

[Lady Di]

LOL!! :lol: :lol:

I still like you, Stubob. :D

[VegasGeorge]

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

--Woodrow Wilson

Boy is that ever the truth! I was President of my 2,000 unit homeowners association during the transition from developer control to association control. In case you didn't catch it, "transition" means "change." I wound up being vilified and despised by about half the people who live here. I've been off the board for two years now, and I'm just starting to feel the animosity level dissipate. People in leadership rolls really have to have thick skin!

[Lady Di]

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

[Bill of Rights]

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

The question is if this is a correlative or a causative relationship.

Blessings,
M

[Lady Di]

St. Michael,

This would make a great essay question for a writing assignment, which leads to a good idea. Maybe (in the future) this site should consider sponsoring an essay contest related to its theme. It would not only bring more interest and attention to this site, but it could also cause someone to become educated, which is the key to restoring the 2nd amendment to its beauty and lustre. Just a thought for future consideration. :D

[Stubob]

I like the idea of a Essay contest -

remind the gang after the first of the year and lets roll one out!

[Lady Di]

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson

[nodaywithout]

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission

[Lady Di]

"The Second Amendment isn't about hunting deer, it's about hunting politicians."
Congressman "B1" Bob Dornan

[Lady Di]

"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."

--Thomas Jefferson

[Bill of Rights]

I wonder if Jefferson would still say this, were he able to do so today, given the sometimes-broadcast abject failure of some members of the judiciary to discharge their duties faithfully.

Blessings,
M

[Lady Di]

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."
—Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277

[Lady Di]

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it."

--Judge Learned Hand

[Lady Di]

"Only fast women shoot." --Queen Victoria

[Bill of Rights]

"Only fast women shoot." --Queen Victoria

Not quite, Vicky... they're just the ones that live to talk about it!

Blessings,
M

[Poogsdad]

Kirk Douglas and John Wayne from the movie "The War Wagon" after simultaneously dispatching two bad guys:

Kirk Douglas: "Mine hit the ground first".

John Wayne: "Mine was taller".

Thanks,

[Lady Di]

"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."

--Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne

[Lady Di]

"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness, as you confess those invaded by the Stamp Act to be. We claim them from a higher source -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice."

--John Dickinson, signer of the Constitution

[Lady Di]

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

--P.J. O'Rourke

[Lady Di]

"The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup."

--Bob Hope


This one is so true! :lol:

[Bill of Rights]

Regarding the conflict in the Middle East:

If the Arabs were to lay down their weapons, there would be no more war.
If Israel were to lay down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.

I don't know who said it, but da*ned if I'M going to argue with it!

Blessings,
M

[Lady Di]

"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money." --Bob Hope

[Lady Di]

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." --Thomas Jefferson

[Lady Di]

"Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the laws scrupulously. Our government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by it's example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of criminal laws the end justifies the means --- to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal --- would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face. . .

And so should every law enforcement officer, student, practitioner, supervisor, and administrator . . ."

Supreme Court Justice Brandeis in Olmstead Vs. U.S.

[Lady Di]

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

--P. J. O'Rourke

[Lady Di]

"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
--- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763,reprinted in 3 The Works of John Adams 438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).

[nodaywithout]

Never own a bullet proof vest that your own weapon won't withstand

[Lady Di]

"What I'd really like to do is go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again."

--Ronald Reagan

[Lady Di]

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." – Thomas Jefferson

[Lady Di]

"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”

--Red Skelton

[Lady Di]

"Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
-- Frederic Bastiat

[Lady Di]

David Hume, the Atheist,
He cried: "I am in flames!" His desperation was a horrible scene.

[Lady Di]

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." --Voltaire

[Novel idea]

David Hume, the Atheist,
He cried: "I am in flames!" His desperation was a horrible scene.You quote Thomas Jefferson, and yet you bash atheists. :roll:
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

[Lady Di]

Thomas Jefferson was a deist, not an atheist. You might want to check out the difference between the two. And how do you equate posting a quote with "bashing" anyone?

[Novel idea]

Okay, then tell me what was the point of the flames quote?

[Lady Di]

I simply liked the quote, and thought it might cause someone to think. If it bothers you so much, ignore it, but please don't try to pick a fight with me on this forum. If I've misinterpreted and you're not trying to pick a fight, my apologies.

[Novel idea]

Hm, when someone chooses to make threads like these. They usually do so to point out quotes of significance or quotes with a message. Not just becuase they merely liked the quote. Can you guess the message I got from the quote I pointed out? On that note:
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." -Mark Twain

My apologies.

[Lady Di]

Hm, when someone chooses to make threads like these. They usually do so to point out quotes of significance or quotes with a message. Not just becuase they merely liked the quote. Can you guess the message I got from the quote I pointed out? On that note:
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." -Mark Twain

My apologies.

No, I can't guess what message you got from this, because I cannot relate to atheism, which is what it sounds like your belief system is. The foundation of my worldview is based on my belief, trust, and faith in God. As far as Hume's quote, the meaning I took from it was that this person, who lived his life as a committed atheist, had these last words to say, which may have indicated that he was given reason to question his atheistic beliefs at the end of his life.

[Novel idea]

Truth be told (and this is embarrassing) I am a Deist. Though I was aware that several of our founding father's were Deists, I was not aware that Jefferson was one of them.