Words of Wisdom - So Appropriate for Today!

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis De Tocqueville

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into good conduct." - Thomas Carlyle

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."-Napoleon Bonaparte

"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there and do nothing." - Will Rogers

"However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties." - Alexander Hamilton

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is never overcome by fleeing from it." - Jeff Cooper

"Wisdom knows what to do next, skill knows how to do it, and virtue is actually doing it." -David Jordan

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of making the right choices." - unknown

"Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." -Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in their bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan

"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay the price." - Sun Tzu

“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 sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” — Winston Churchill



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