Favorite Quotes...From Ben Franklin Or Whomever...

[WJCO]

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson

 

[JT@623]

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson

I think the tree is thirsty

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

 

[wayoflife]

Different time and so different nationalities are mentioned but for me, it still rings true no matter who you’re talking about or where they’re from.

 

[WJCO]

Different time and so different nationalities are mentioned but for me, it still rings true no matter who you’re talking about or where they’re from.
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Exactly. Don't come here for a better life and then bring your bullshit with you.

 

[OverlanderJK]

Different time and so different nationalities are mentioned but for me, it still rings true no matter who you’re talking about or where they’re from.
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Man, never heard that one before. Great line! Need more of this!

 

[wayoflife]

Exactly. Don't come here for a better life and then bring your bullshit with you.

Man, never heard that one before. Great line! Need more of this!

It's literally how I was brought up. My dad wanted me to be an American - PERIOD. For him, that was the only way for me to succeed in life and live the American dream. And, he was right. I am eternally grateful to him and how he looked at being an immigrant to this great country.

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again."​

-Will Durant​

 

[WJCO]

"Why would you (us troops) fight in Ukraine? Thousands of miles from your homeland? Don't you have anything better to do? You have issues on the border and issues with national debt. You have nothing better to do than fight in Ukraine?" -Vladimir Putin, February 2024

 

[AZVAJKU]

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."​

-Lord Acton​

 

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[NPC 6060⁸42]

 

[AZVAJKU]

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

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[AZVAJKU]

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"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country."​

-Ron Paul​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”​

-Milton Friedman​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”​

-Thomas Jefferson​

 

[GP NOIR]

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"Insulating people from reality produces unrealistic people. It doesn't matter whether they are welfare recipients, spoiled rich kids, tenured professors in the ivy league, or federal judges with lifetime appointments."​

-Thomas Sowell​