Some Quotes To Share

Just thought I would take a minute today and list some quotes from down through the ages, some may be famous, and some aren't, but I hope you enjoy them.

"A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killers hands."--Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 45 AD

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."--Benjamin Franklin

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." -- Patrick Henry

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason

"How do you tell a Communist? A Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." --Ronald Reagan

"It isn't that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." -- Ronald Reagan

"When the Governments fear the people, there is liberty. When people fear the Government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." Thomas Jefferson

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." -- General George S. Patton Jr.

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." -- General George S. Patton Jr.

"Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace." -- James Madison

"Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity." -- George W. Bush

"Character, not circumstances, makes the man." -- Booker T. Washington

"Hope is no basis for a defense policy." -- Margaret Thatcher

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." -- Calvin Coolidge

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." -- Margaret Thatcher

And the best one for today:

"One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns." -- Ronald Reagan