Every year, at the beginning of the year, I send out 'quotable quotes' that I've either heard or read during the previous year. These are the quotes from 2013. You may have heard some of them but, I'm sure, not all of them. Hope you enjoy.
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On February 14, 1963, I took an oath when I enlisted in the United States Air Force. The same oath that all members of the military and National Guard, police and elected government officials take in one way or another. When I was discharged, I was never informed that that oath didn't apply anymore. I've never heard of it not applying anymore to any that have taken that oath during or after they no longer were engaged in the work that led them to taking it. The only way it could ever not apply anymore is if the person who took it refuses to adhere to it.
That oath was not to any one man or woman, but to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I would bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I took the obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I would well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I was about to enter; So help me God.
When I left the military, I only left to take on another office, that of a civilian, a patriotic American citizen. I have never renounced that oath and never will. Any who attempt to force me to renounce it will be separated from the double-helix. - CAH
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"Treat all guns as if they are loaded. The only true safety on a firearm is the one between your ears. Never pull a gun unless you are prepared to pull the trigger. Know what is behind your target. These are by no means the only rules of gun safety, but they are repeated over and over by anyone who knows anything about firearms to novices and old-timers alike. In the heat of battle, though, they can be forgotten by even the most skilled and combat-hardened veteran." - David C. Waldron "Dark Grid"
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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow - if tomorrow might improve the odds." - Heinlein, Robert
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"Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out." - New motto of Front Page Magazine
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“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” - Marine General James Mattis to his Marines in Iraq
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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” – Thomas Paine
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“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat (and hesitation and timidity) brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” –Ernest Hemingway
(And for those of you who say, "What war?", remember the U.S.S Cole, 9/11, Boston, Benghazi and all those other terrorist attacks that have been launched against America and Americans around the world. WE ARE AT WAR!!!)
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“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” – Thomas Sowell
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"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ." - Thomas Jefferson
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"I've never known anyone who survived the experience of raising teenagers who were able to remain a Libertarian" - Rich Carlgard
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"Audace, l'audace, toujours audace" ("Audacity, audacity, always audacity.”) - Danton, of the French Revolution, though some credit Frederick The II
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
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Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
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"The Art of War teaches us to rely, not upon the calculated likelihood of the enemy's coming or not, but on our own readiness to receive him... no matter what he does." Sun Tzu
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"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." - Thomas Jefferson
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In order to have peace both sides must want it equally. One side cannot make peace; they can only surrender. There are hundreds of cases in history where one side had agreed to lay down their arms if allowed to leave peacefully. In every case known, the ones who surrendered their arms were promptly massacred. - Ward McQueen
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"Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair." - Jeff Cooper
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - G. K. Chesterton
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"The only criminal class in America is Congress." - Mark Twain
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"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
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"Workers will only be loyal to management if management is loyal to workers. Loyalty, as well as respect, must be earned - not demanded or expected." - CAH
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"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." - Sun Tzu
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"Tobacco, beef, BBQ, fried foods, sugared drinks and everything else that makes life worth living; I'm firmly convinced avoiding these pleasures does not increase your life span, it just makes it seem like it." - colt45.
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"The phrase is "Always faithful." It isn't "Sometimes Faithful." Nor is it "Usually Faithful," but Always. It is not negotiable. It is not relative, but absolute. Who is always faithful, though. and to what, exactly are they faithful? Interestingly, the simplicity of the phrase and the calculated neglect to specify its parameters seems to strengthen it. Marines pride themselves on their straightforward mission and steadfast dedication to accomplish it. Things do not need to be spelled out for them; they know what it means and what to do about it." - Sergeant Major Benjamin Blaine, USMC Ret.
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"I am a Licensed Gene Pool Lifeguard. I have a Concealed Weapons Permit." - CAH
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu — The Art of War
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"When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are, by necessity, diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist
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"If you can't feel accountable to someone in your life, or to your God, then you need to develop accountability to yourself. You need to look at yourself in the mirror every morning and say, 'I was a good person yesterday, ' and if you can't say that, then find the person you behaved badly toward and make amends. You need to love yourself as much as others love you. Do the same with your private life that you would with your public life. Admit your mistakes, apologize to yourself and others, and accept forgiveness." - Tuan Nguyen
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"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
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"The way things are going, there will be a day in the not too distant future when 'Civilization' as we know it will collapse. When that happens, every outlaw, and even decent people are going to go crazy. They are going to go crazy because everything has changed now. Food is not going to be delivered to stores, and people are going to get hungry. When people get hungry, they will stop obeying the laws we lived by until today. They will become killers and worse. They will lose the values that make an orderly society. The very things that make it possible to have large cities and a population that doesn't have to grow its own food. If they, the ones who revert to savagery get these guns, then they may make it impossible to rebuild into a civilization having the ability to grow food in one place and transport it to another. That is just one of the things we are going to have to guard against. We will also have to guard against animals who will revert to their wild state. Dogs will become something to fear because instead of being providers of the food made in huge factories, we will become the food they will eat to survive. Because man without the capacity to build weapons with which to defend himself will become the prey of any animal who is faster, stronger or just hungrier. " - Dr. T. D'Manne, "The Coming Night"
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
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"Unending hardships shall come to pass,
As we enter a land of trees and grass.
We will build our homes with love assured,
Yet never forget the troubles endured.
We are the first, but there will be more,
People with dreams of that distant shore.
They will look with awe at the road we dared,
And say we had courage, more than our share."
T. J. Hanson, "Oregon Country"
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value." - Thomas Paine
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"We live today; maybe we will die tomorrow. We don't stop living just because the knife is at our throats. Cowards do that and, as they say, cowards spend their lives dying." - Quiyo
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"When he was speaking of our going into space, John F. Kennedy said, 'We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard'. We've lost that." - Charles Krauthamer.
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"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson
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"Some people are like clouds: once they're gone, it's a beautiful day." - Bill Moore (MNPD Ret.)
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“Keep a government poor and weak and it’s your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it’s your master." - H. Beam Piper
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There are times when you have been, or will be, involved in a political discussion with a Liberal. If so, remember the words of Thomas Paine, one of our Founding Fathers: "To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead."
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The first rule of life: No matter how smart we think we are, we really don’t know squat about most of what goes on in this world. It’s a lesson a lot of people never learn. - Hoyt Wring
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"Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you had made a lot more." - Milo Boyd
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"There is no problem in the world that cannot be solved with the proper use of explosives" - Ted Pope
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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson
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"What we are seeing today, is the weaponization of government" - Katherine Englebrecht (Testifying before Congress on the abuses of the IRS and other agencies in 2014)
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"Always remember, age itself does not make you a man. The things that you do every day of your life, tells if you are a real man." - Fighting Hawk (Cheyenne Chief, 1848)
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Remember Two Things:
1. Boots, Beans and Bullets, My Friends. Boots, Beans and Bullets
2. Molon Labé! (If you aren't up on your Ancient Greek History, look it up.)
