Beloved Quotations

Ah Professur, you just reminded me of one.

Smith & Wesson, the original point and click interface.

-Unknown
 
Someone else posted the last line, but the rest is worth reading, and the last line is that much better in the context of the final paragraph:

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! " [Emphasis added.]
 
whoreable said:
LINCOLN!!

"ut I hold that notwithstanding all of this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-- certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." [From Lincoln's reply to Douglas in the First Debate. Emphasis in the text.]
 
whoreable said:

Tim?

Watching his dim-witted, black-skirted secretary (Carol Burnett) roll her hips while sharpening her pencil :

"Looks-a like an aerial view of-a the Black Sea!"
 
“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.” Gen George Patton

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. Benjamin Franklin

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Albert Einstein

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr
 
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