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"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that nonecan pierce."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." Tecumseh

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.Trouble no one about his religion.Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,for your life, for your strength.Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to foolsand robs the spirit of its vision.When your time comes to die,be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death,

so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more timeto live their lives over again in a different way.Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." Tecumseh

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. -Karl von Clausewitz

"I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. -J.R.R. Tolkien

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. -Miyamoto Musashi

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settledyet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. -Miyamoto Musashi

"he was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier."-("History of the Crusades" Vol. III, on Richard)

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."-Richard the Lionheart

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

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."-Winston Churchill



"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle."-Winston Churchill

The unwise manis awake all nightworries over and again.When morning riseshe is restless still,his burden as before.

- The Havamal(Viking Wisdon)

It is fortunateto be favoredwith praise and popularity.It is dire luckto be dependenton the feelings of your fellow man.


Cattle diekinsmen dieall men are mortal.

Words of praisewill never perishnor a noble name.


Enter the KINGWESTMORELAND.

O that we now had hereBut one ten thousand of those men in EnglandThat do no work to-day!

KING.What's he that wishes so?My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;If we are mark'd to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;It yearns me not if men my garments wear;Such outward things dwell not in my desires.But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.

No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.God's peace! I would not lose so great an honourAs one man more methinks would share from meFor the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,That he which hath no stomach to this fight,Let him depart; his passport shall be made,And crowns for convoy put into his purse;We would not die in that man's companyThat fears his fellowship to die with us.



This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,And rouse him at the name of Crispian.He that shall live this day, and see old age,Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,But he'll remember, with advantages,What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,Familiar in his mouth as household words-Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;

And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Little John: You're burning the chow!Robin Hood: Sorry, Johnny. I guess I was thinking about Maid Marian again. I can't help it. I love her, Johnny.Little John: Look, why don't ya stop moanin' and mopin' around? J-Just marry thegirl.Robin Hood: Marry her? You don't just walk up to a girl, hand her a bouquet andsay, "Hey, remember me? We were kids together. Will you marry me?"

No, it just isn't done that way.Little John: Ah, come one, Robby. Climb the castle walls. Sweep her off her feet. Carry her off in style.Robin Hood: It's no use, Johnny. I've thought it all out, and it just wouldn't work. Besides, what have I got to offer her?Little John: Well, for one thing, you can't cook.Robin Hood: I'm serious Johnny. She's a highborn lady of quality.Little John: So she's got class. So what?Robin Hood: I'm an outlaw. That's what. That's no life for a lovely lady. Alwayson the run. What kind of a future is that?Friar Tuck: Oh, for heaven's sake, son. You're no outlaw. Why, someday, you'll be called a great hero.Robin Hood: A hero? Did you hear that, Johnny? We've just been pardoned!

Little John: Oh, that's a gas. We ain't even been arrested yet.

THE LOST LEGIONThere's a Legion that never was 'listed,That carries no colours or crest,

But, split in a thousand detachments,Is breaking the road for the rest.

Our fathers they left us their blessing They taught us, and groomed us, and crammed;



But we've shaken the Clubs and the MessesTo go and find out and be damned

(Dear boys!),To go and get shot and be damned.

So some of us chivy the slaver,And some of us cherish the black,

And some of us hunt on the Oil Coast,And some on the Wallaby track:

And some of us drift to Sarawak,And some of us drift up The Fly,

And some share our tucker with tigers,And some with the gentle Masai

(Dear boys!),Take tea with the giddy Masai.

We've painted The Islands vermilion,We've pearled on half-shares in the Bay,

We've shouted on seven-ounce nuggets,We've starved on a Seedeeboy's pay;

We've laughed at the world as we found it Its women and cities and men

From Sayyid Burgash in a tantrumTo the smoke-reddened eyes of Loben

(Dear boys!),We've a little account with Loben.

The ends o' the Earth were our portion,The ocean at large was our share.

There was never a skirmish to windwardBut the Leaderless Legion was there:

Yes, somehow and somewhere and alwaysWe were first when the trouble began,

From a lottery-row in Manila,To an I.D.B. race on the Pan

(Dear boys!),With the Mounted Police on the Pan.

We preach in advance of the Army,We skirmish ahead of the Church,

With never a gunboat to help usWhen we're scuppered and left in the lurch.

But we know as the cartridges finish,And we're filed on our last little shelves,

That the Legion that never was 'listedWill send us as good as ourselves

(Good men!),Five hundred as good as ourselves.

Then a health (we must drink it in whispers)

To our wholly unauthorised horde To the line of our dusty foreloopers,The Gentlemen Rovers abroad

Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter,For the steamer won't wait for the train,

And the Legion that never was 'listedGoes back into quarters again!

'Regards!Goes back under canvas again.

Hurrah!



The swag and the billy again.Here's how!

The trail and the packhorse again.Salue!

The trek and the laager again.-Rudyard Kipling

So I'll meet 'im later onAt the place where 'e is gone Where it's always double drill and no canteen;'E'll be squattin' on the coalsGivin' drink to poor damned souls,An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!

Yes, Din! Din! Din!You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!

Though I've belted you and flayed you,By the livin' Gawd that made you,

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!-Gunga Din (excerpt) Rudyard Kipling

INVICTUS (Latin: Unconquered)Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the yearsFinds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

"Look here, I'm a soldier of the queen and I dont grovel before any heathen!" Cutter, Gunga Din

"Should any free soul come across this place--In all the countless centuries yet to be--May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones.'Go tell the Spartans, passerby:That here, by Spartan law, we lie.'"

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.. Not screaming andyelling like the passengers in his car.

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.

The early bird might gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.



"I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, theTalons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power!I AM BEOWULF!" -Beowulf

Wiglaf: "Your legend is known from the high seas and the snow barriers to the Great Island Kingdom - you are the Monster Slayer."Beowulf: We men are the monsters now. The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf - the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing but weepingmartyrs, fear, and shame."-Beowulf

"They have seen my strength for themselves, have watched me rise from the darkness of war, dripping with my enemies' blood.I drove five great giants into chains, chased all of that race from the earth. Iswam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters out of the ocean,and killing them one by one; death was my errand and the fate they had earned. Now Grendel and I are called together, and I've come."Beowulf, Lines 417-426

"Grendel is no braver, no stronger than I am! I could kill him with my sword; Ishall not, easy as it would be. This fiend is a bold and famous fighter,but his claws and teeth... beating at my sword blade, would be helpless. I willmeet him with my hands empty--unless his heart fails him,seeing a soldier waiting weaponless, unafraid. Let God in His wisdom extend His

hand where He wills, reward whom he chooses!"Beowulf, Lines 677-687

"His vanity swelled him so vile and rank that he could hear no voices but his own. He deserved to suffer and die. But Beowulf was a prince well-loved,followed in friendship, not fear."Beowulf, Lines 911-914

"the Almighty makes miracles when he pleases, wonder after wonder, and this world rests in his hands."Beowulf, Lines 930-932

"Better is it for each one of us that he should avenge his friend, than greatly

mourn."Beowulf, Line 1384-1385

"Each of us must expect an end of living in this world; let him who may win glory before death: for that is best at last for the departed warrior."Beowulf, Line 1386-1389

"Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark."Beowulf, Lines 1387-1389

"fame after death is the noblest of goals."Beowulf, Lines 1388-1389

"Beowulf got ready, donned his war-gear, indifferent to death."Beowulf, Lines 1441-1442

"Incline not to arrogance, famous warrior! Now shall the fullness of thy strength last for a while. But soon after it shall be,that malady or sword shall cut thee off from power, or the embrace of fire or welling of a flood, or onset with the knife, or arrow's flight,or hideous old age. Or brightness of eyes shall diminish and grow dim, and at length it shall be that death shall overpower thee."



"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; thathowever moderate or unambitious we may be,we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others."-Alexander Hamilton

"Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear."-Aragorn, The Lord of The Rings

"There are no hopless wars, friend, only hopeless cowards." -Themistoclyes, The300 Spartans

"In the world I see... you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center.You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower.And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips ofvenison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."-Fight CLub

"Come Watson, the game is a-foot."-Sherlock Holmes

"Friend? Aye friend... It is a testament to my love for you that it can live oncrumbs."-Sherlock Holmes

"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."-Fight Club

"I just don't want to die without a few scars." -Fight Club

"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer." -Fight Club

"The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being aman means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says."-Fight Club

"If he were to punch you in the face you would have to fight off the strong desi

re to thank him.""He is the life of parties he never attended.""His blood smells like cologne.""Bulls flat out refuse to fight him.""He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.""His business card simply says 'I'll call you.'"On Life: "It's never too early to start beefing up your obituary."On Manscaping: "I have no idea what this is."On Wingmen: "It doesn't take more than one man to talk to a woman."On the Two-Party System: "The after-party is the one you want to attend."On Rollerblading: "No."On Careers: "Find out what is in life that you do not do well, and then don't dothat thing."

-The Most Interesting Man in the World

"For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped onthis planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone.I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans, and account for every drop of usedmotor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buriedgasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born." -Fight Club

"Recycling and speed limits are bullshit, they're like someone who quits smoking



on his deathbed."-Fight Club

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of thesame compost pile."-Fight Club

"...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself....You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes."-Fight Club

"I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables."-Fight Club

"All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their livesto something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don'tneed. Generations have been working in jobs they hate,just so they can buy what they don't need."-Fight Club

"I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may."-Fight Club

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy

shit we don't need."-Fight CLub

"We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no GreatWar, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war.Our great depression is our lives."-Fight Club

"We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome,nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created." -David Fincher on Fight CLub

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.- Robert Browning, 1855

"I got in everyone's hostile little face. Yes, these are bruises from fighting.Yes, I'm comfortable with that. I am enlightened."-Fight Club

"He said 'Why should I tarry?'And smiled with tranquil eyes;'In destinies sad or merry,True men can but try.'"-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"Someone with courage and honor and decency. But in a cruel and frightened world, men like this were scare indeed."-Tale of Despereux

"Strength and honor."-Gladiator

"Go, and die with honor."-Gladiator

"What can you do? Sparta, will need sons."-Leonidas, 300



"He proffered with good grace,His bare neck to the blade,And feigned a cheerful face:He scorned to seem afraid."-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"Let God work! Ah me!All hope of help has fled!forfeit my life may beBut noise I do not dread."-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"Spartan! Come home with your shield, or upon it."-Spartan women to her son

"Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here, by Spartan law, we lie."-Epitaph to the Spartans at Thermopalye

"Spartans! What is your proffesion?!"-Leonidas, 300

"See old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did."-Leonidas, 300

"'The thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you, our arrows will blot out the sun!''Then we will fight in the shade.'"-Spartan liuetenant to Persian emissary, 300

"Relax old friend, if they assasinate me, all of Sparta goes to war. Pray they are that stupid. Pray we are that lucky."-Leonidas, 300

"'There is much our cultures could share.''I've noticed, weve been sharing our culture with you all morning."-Leonidas to Xerxes, 300

"'Imagine what annihilation awaits my enemies when i would gladly kill any of myown men for victory.''And I would die, for any one of mine.'"-Leonidas to Xerxes, 300

"'Consider the fate of your women.''Clearly you dont know our women, I might as well have marched them up here. Judging by what I've seen.'"-Leonidas ot Xerxes, 300

"You have many slaves Xerxes, but few warriors. It wont be long before they fearmy spears, more than your whips."-Leonidas, 300

"'Your Athenian rivals will kneel at your feet. If you will but kneel at mine.''You are genorous, as you are divine, oh king of kings... Such an offer, only amadman would refuse. But the, uh, the idea of kneeling...Its, you see, slaughtering all those men, its, uh, left a nasty krick in my leg,so kneeling will be hard for me.'"-Leonidas to Xerxes, 300

"'The world will never know you existed at all!''The world... will know, that free men stood against a tyrant; that few stood ag



ainst many; and before this battle was over,that even a god-king can bleed.'"-Leonidas to Xerxes, 300

"'Glory? have you gone mad? there is no Glory to be had here, only surrender, orretreat, or death!''Well thats an easy choice for us, Arcadian. Spartans never retreat! Spartans never surrender!'"-Leonidas, 300

"Children... Children, gather round. No retreat, no surrender, that is Spartan law. And by, Spartan law, we will stand, and fight, or die.A new age is upon us, an age of freedom, and all will know, that three-hundredSpartans gave their last breath to defend it!"-Leonidas, 300

"Heart!? I have filled my heart with hate."-300

"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty. For tonight, we dine, in hell!"-Leonidas, 300

'He turned and lifted Olivia to her feet, from where she had crouched shielded by the gunwales.

"And what of me, sir?" she asked."What would you?" he countered, watching her narrowly."To go with you, wherever you path may lie!" she cried, throwing her white armsabout his bronzed neck.... "To sail a road of blood and slaughter?" he questioned. "This ships keel will stain the blue waves crimson wherever it plows.""Aye to sail with you on blue seas or red," she answered passionately. "You area barbarian, and I am an outcast, denied by my people. We areboth pariahs, wanderers of earth. Oh, take me with you!"With a gusty laugh he lifted her to his fierce lips, "I'll make you Queen of theBlue Sea! Cast off there, dogs.. By Crom!"'-Shadows and Moonlight, Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard

'He shrugged his shoulders. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It maybe the blackness averred by (atheists and skeptics)... or the snowy plains of...Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live;let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hotembrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when theblue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this:if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusionis real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and amcontent."'-Conan the Barbarian, Queen of the Black Coast, Robert E. Howard

"Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less anillusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me." - Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard

"You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions- like science,medicine, and such."George Bernard Shaw

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very cl



ean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. John Wayne If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. John Wayne

A man ought to do what he thinks is right. John Wayne

If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"John Wayne

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. John Wayne

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing. John Wayne

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll.I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

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 ofthe men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our bloodand hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom,

go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick thehands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!-Samuel Adams

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit usto be pirates."-Mark Twain

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.



Seneca

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted? George Bernard Shaw When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. George Dennison Prentice

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything. Friedrich Nietzsche

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. James D. Miles

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marredby dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed;who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of highachievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timidsouls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. Henry Louis Mencken

A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is inlove. Antiphanes

Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to thestrong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosperor no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is,in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for. Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr



Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein

"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better tohave loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by pryinginto that matter. Mark Twain

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasterswe try to get through. Michael Palin

"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. Leigh Hunt

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feel

ing too much on any particular occasion. George Eliot

A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.

I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learnhumbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things.I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked forpower that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life.I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for,but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken

prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. C.S. Lewis

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannotunderstand. Robert Valett

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person. Paul Tournier

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely,to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. Abraham Lincoln

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.



Douglas Adams

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little asif you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney

If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you mustbe the greatest.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honorscorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. C.S. Lewis quotes The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. Chinese Proverbs

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. Winston Churchill

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

...those who have not swords can still die upon them. J.R.R. Tolkien

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of themen who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. General George S. Patton

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. Theodore Roosevelt

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. George Orwell God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts.Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my ownmanhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutualconfidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived.If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect

and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord. General George S. Patton

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice ofconscientious conviction or of national welfare. Theodore Roosevelt



Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the reallyimportant things of life. Alice Thomas Ellis There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

The absence of war is not peace. Harry S Truman

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our ownreadiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather onthe fact that we have made our position unassailable. Sun Tzu

Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is withthee, thou mighty man of valour.

You dont mind breaking the law? -HolmesNot in the least. -WatsonNor running a chance of arrest? -HolmesNot in a good cause. -WatsonOh, the cause is excellent! -HolmesThen I am your man. -Watson-Watson and Sherlock

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks whileyou loved me. Humphrey Bogart

If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some

of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry. Ross Knox The whole world is about three drinks behind. Humphrey Bogart

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves. Humphrey Bogart

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all thathe holds dear,is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Vince Lombardi

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.



Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny canbe handled at a time. Winston Churchill

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destinyin the folds of her mantle. Henri Frederic

"You can get more with a nice word and a gun than you can with a nice word. Al Capone

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. Daniel Boone

A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun.

They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun. Roy Rogers

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left.They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not un

derstand anything. Adam Michnik

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizensdon't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler- sound familiar?

Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. Peter Venetoklis

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War Rudyard Kipling

"Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. Rudyard Kipling

Payday came and with it beer. Rudyard Kipling

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Rudyard Kipling

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades;that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution.Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he



appeals to the imagination. Benjamin Disraeli

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. Sir Philip Sidney

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knightdoes not alleviate the suffering of the peasant. C.S. Lewis

The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with thesaints, I trust. Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not inthe dark ones.Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. John Ruskin

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. Adolf Hitler, the first Che

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. Rufus Wainwright

When I think about country music, I think about America. Johnny Cash

"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Charles Dickens

The only reason to have money is to tell any son of a bitch in the world to go tohell. Humphrey Bogart

"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart

Men build things, then we die. its in our Fuckin DNA, its what we do, and when it all falls down, we build it right back up again. But this time bigger,better. Look! Look what we can do, look how fucking beautiful we are! You thinkthe men that built all this had it easy? Hard men, doing hard shit.I amso sick of this self help, twelve step, left over hippie generation bullshit. Now they dont want you to do anything right? just sit there, dont drink,dont smoke, dont drive fast. Kiss my ass! Do it all I say, You think Duke Waynespent all his time talking about his feelings with a fucking therapist?Theres no fucking way he did. John Wayne died, with five pounds of undigested re

d meat in his ass. Now thats a man....Real men hide their feelings. Why? Because its none of your fucking buisness! men do not cry, men do not pout, men jack you in the fucking jaw andsay thanks for coming out.-Rocco

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.Mohandas Gandhi



People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand readyto do violence on their behalf.George Orwell (English writer and democratic socialist)

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell (English writer and democratic socialist)

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.H. Rap Brown (Black Panther terrorist)

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.Hilaire Belloc (Catholic writer/Historian)

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.Hilaire Belloc (Catholic writer/Historian)

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.George S. Patton (General 1st Armor WWII)

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood...there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!Padraic Pearse

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.Douglas William Jerrold

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.Napoleon Hill

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

R. Lee Ermey (Marine, Celebrity)

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.Clarence Darrow

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day,to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.e. e. cummings

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road;in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis (Catholic Author)

"Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense."

"Deus lo Vult!"-- God wills it!

"...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.' They had a choice, all of them.They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or Presid



ent Truman. Decent men, who believed in a day's work for a day's pay.Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late.Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectualsand smooth-talkers, and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say." --Rorschach

"He stood up for his country, Veidt. Never let anyone retire him. Never cashed in on his reputation. Never set up a company selling posters and dietbooks and toy soldiers based on himself. Never became a prostitute. If that makes him a Nazi, you might as well call me a Nazi, too."--Rorschach

"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."--Rorschach

"Come...dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shapeall things leave their fingerprints most clearly." --Dr. Manhattan

"There is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face ofArmageddon I shall not compromise in this."--Rorschach

" 42nd Street: Women's breasts draped across every billboard, every display, littering the sidewalk. Was offered Swedish love and French love,

but not American love. American love; like coke in green glass bottles, they don't make it anymore."--Rorschach

"Away down alley, heard woman scream, first bubbling note of city's evening chorus. Approached disturbance. Attempted rape/mugging/both.Cleared throat. The man turned and there was something rewarding in his eyes. Sometimes, the night is generous to me."--Rorschach

"For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise's; and step into the shadow now without complaint."--Rorschach

"I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights." --Dr. Seuss

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose." --Dr. Seuss

"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational beingare trenched on, die on the firstinch of your territory." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man with courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson

America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people,not as a sword for freedom-loathing people. --John Ashcroft

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. --Ronald Reagan

Tomorrow let us do or die! --Thomas Campbell

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." --Mohandas Gandhi

When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kissyou... When I kissed you,



I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us --Charles Kingsley

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, / Who rush to glory, or the grave! / Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, /And charge with all thy chivalry! --Thomas Campbell

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is awrong left unredressed on earth. --Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought. --Charles Kingsley

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb ofthe power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protectionin her lance and her sword. --Sir Walter Scott

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. --Honore de Balzac

"I cant do everything, but I'd do anything for you." --Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet

"Fear not, my friends. This will be my greatest performance." -Robin Hood

"If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truthreally did exclude Christ,I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth." --Fyodor Dostoevsky

"To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." --William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what

others will think,afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger." --Tad Williams

"Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try;In that I live, and for that I will die."--William Shakespeare, Richard II

True love cannot be found where it truly doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."--Julius Caesar

"A man has only one escape from his old self to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."--Clare Boothe Luce

Pioneers! O Pioneers!by Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!COME my tan-faced children,



Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond theseas?We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the past we leave behind,We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,Pioneers! O pioneers!

We detachments steady throwing,Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,Pioneers! O pioneers!

We primeval forests felling,We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mineswithin,We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Colorado men are we,

From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the highplateaus,From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,Pioneers! O pioneers!

From Nebraska, from Arkansas,Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continentalblood intervein'd,All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all theNorthern,Pioneers! O pioneers!

O resistless restless race!

O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Raise the mighty mother mistress,Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,(bend your heads all,)Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'dmistress,Pioneers! O pioneers!



See my children, resolute children,By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,Pioneers! O pioneers!

On and on the compact ranks,With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quicklyfill'd,Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,Pioneers! O pioneers!

O to die advancing on!Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the pulses of the world,Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Life's involv'd and varied pageants,All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,

All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the hapless silent lovers,All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,Pioneers! O pioneers!

I too with my soul and body,We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitionspressing,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Lo, the darting bowling orb!Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,Pioneers! O pioneers!

These are of us, they are with us,All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo waitbehind,We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you daughters of the West!

O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Minstrels latent on the prairies!(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done yourwork,)Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,Pioneers! O pioneers!



Not for delectations sweet,Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Do the feasters gluttonous feast?Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Has the night descended?Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged noddingon our way?Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Till with sound of trumpet,Far, far off the daybreak call-hark! how loud and clear I hear itwind,Swift! to the head of the army!-swift! spring to your places,Pioneers! O pioneers!

O Captain my Captain!by Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding,

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;Here Captain! dear father!This arm beneath your head!It is some dream that on the deck

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will.The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;Exult O shores, and ring O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomerby Walt Whitman

When I heard the learned astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and

measure them



When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with muchapplause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

IFby Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too:If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, dont deal in lies,Or being hated, dont give way to hating,And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dreamand not make dreams your master;If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim,If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two imposters just the same:If you can bear to hear the truth youve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss:If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kingsnor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much:If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,Andwhich is moreyoull be a Man, my son!

You may not love me today, tomorrow, or ever, but I will love you until it killsme, and, even then, you'll be in my heart.

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love withyou I had no control over.

"Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."--Thomas Marshall

"Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you, and if you must go down,go down with your guns blazing." --Cort



"Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would justcreep away and die." --Eddie Dean

"We deal in lead." --Roland Deschain

I do not aim with my hand;He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.I aim with my eye./I do not shoot with my hand;He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.I shoot with my mind./I do not kill with my gun;He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.I kill with my heart. --Gunslinger Code

"There will be water if God wills it."

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy,indifference, and undernourishment."--Robert M. Hutchins

"All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward." --Ellen Glasgow

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." --Aldous Huxley

"Things do not change, we change."--Henry David Thoreau

"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. Thatis why I am in two-hundred-percent form." --Winston Churchill

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep." - Italian proverb

"Camouflage is the colour of fear. I have no need to hide from my foes. I have n

o fear of death. My colours I wear openly,they proclaim louder than words I am proud to live I am proud to die.

"Sic Semper Tyrannis!" -Thus Always with Tyrants

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!"--King Henry V

"There's daggers in men's smiles." - Macbeth

"Government is not the solution to our problem, it is the problem."--Ronald Reagan

"A foe without honour is a foe already beaten."

"The warrior who acts out of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself. Evenhis death if it is honourable is a reward and canbe no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honour as you act, therefore,and you will know no fear."

"The Lord is a man of war." -Exodus 15:3

"The Constitution only gives you the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself." -Thomas Jefferson



"None can love freedom heartily but good men, the rest love not freedom, but license." -John Milton

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property...Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. "-Thomas Paine

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -Thomas Paine

"Fuck the ACLU." -U.S Marines

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?" -Patrick Henry

" Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I knownot what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" -Patrick Henry

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also." -Thomas Jefferson

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their ownpursuits of industry and improvement, andshall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sumof good government." -Thomas Jefferson

" Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." -George Washington

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."-Benjamin Franklin

" All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -Winston Churchill

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." -Winston Churchill

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law." -Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger.But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger byhalf. Never run away from anything. Never!" -Winston Churchill

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of

envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."-Winston Churchill

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."--Leo Tolstoy

"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!"--Daniel Webster

"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" --L



illian Hellman

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stiffled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown aboutmy house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any." --Mohandas K. Gandhi

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."--Benjamin Franklin

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."--Dorothy Thompson

"The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot beits prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong,and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, notoriginate them."--Mark Twain

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are tostand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatrioticand servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt

"They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace."--Dorothy Thompson

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, andnot to be under the will or legislative authority of man,but only to have the law of nature for his rule." --Samuel Adams

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."--Samuel Adams

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worthdefending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend

them against all attacks." --Samuel Adams

"I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue." --Meg Ryan

"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons." --Charles Dickens

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils;for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."--Burke

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, But let me first do so

me great things that shall be told among men hereafter."-Hector of Troy

"They made it evident to every man, and to the king himself not least of all, that human beings are many but men are few."-Herodotus

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."-Alexander the Great

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -AynRand



"In the absence of orders, find somthing to kill."- Erwin Rommel

"Dont do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone,hate them until it hurts." - Henry Rollins

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.-Norman Mailer

"Fury is my choice, not my sickness."

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."--Winston Churchill

"If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war"--George Washington

"The state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man,and this latter must be a man who produced and saved it. This latteris the Forgotten Man."--William Graham Sumner

"We begin bombing in five minutes"--Ronald Reagan

"The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swordsin the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms."--Carl von Clausewitz

"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed;if you will not fight when your victory will be sureand not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight withall the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.There may be an even worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope ofvictory, for it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

--Winston Churchill

"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master"--Demosthenes

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling,which thinks nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing forwhich he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important thanhis own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being freeunless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."--John Stuart Mill

"Arm yourselves and be ye men of valor and be in readiness for the conflict, for

it is better for us to perish in battle than to look uponthe outrage of our nation and our altars."--Winston Churchill

"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."--C.S. Lewis

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

"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk.Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the wh



ole cart."--Winston Churchill

"Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind."

"Honor remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste." -Alfred de Vigny

"Don't run, be a good American."- Rick Rescorla 9-11"Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming;Can't you see their spear points gleaming?See their warriors' pennants streamingTo this battlefield.Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;It cannot be ever said yefor the battle were not ready;Stand and never yield!"

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive." - William Shakespeare, Henry V

"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so." - Walter Lippmann

"What is life without Honor? Degridation is worse than death." - Stonewall Jackson

"You have to defend your honor. And your family."-Suzanne Vega

"Never lie, even if it leads to your death. Be true, and upright so that God maylove thee, defend the weak,uphold thy name so that you are known as honourable, walk with glory and wisdom. Remeber the Lord giveth and he taketh away,

everything happens for a purpose. Be just and fear not."

"If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, theremust be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern theyspeak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enoughof it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils."-- Stonewall Jackson

"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that,but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is theway all men should live, and then all would be equally brave."--Stonewall Jackson

"Feint hearts never won fair ladies."

The soldier stood and faced God,Which must always come to pass.He hoped his shoes were shining,Just as brightly as his brass.

"Step forward now, you soldier,How shall I deal with you?



Have you always turned the other cheek?To My Church have you been true?"

The soldier squared his shoulders and said,"No, Lord, I guess I ain't.Because those of us who carry guns,Can't always be a saint.

I've had to work most Sundays,And at times my talk was tough.And sometimes I've been violent,Because the world is awfully rough.

But, I never took a penny,That wasn't mine to keep...Though I worked a lot of overtime,When the bills got just too steep.

And I never passed a cry for help,Though at times I shook with fear.And sometimes, God, forgive me,I've wept unmanly tears.

I know I don't deserve a place,

Among the people here.They never wanted me around,Except to calm their fears.

If you've a place for me here, Lord,It needn't be so grand.I never expected or had too much,But if you don't, I'll understand.

There was a silence all around the throne,Where the saints had often trod.As the soldier waited quietly,For the judgment of his God.

"Step forward now, you soldier,You've borne your burdens well.Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,You've done your time in Hell."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -Hamlet

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