Thomas Jefferson and our 2nd Amendment and other important quotes

calfoxwc

doesn't matter, Chris. I liked the quotes, and thought it was fun to

post them.

Up yours if you want to feign "offense"

ahahaha. Truth is, I don't care if he actually said them or not.

It ...was....just....an....email...that....was....going ....around.

You bitch about Jefferson not actually saying them, then you BITCH

that they are 200 years old.

That's just bitching to bitch about the content of the quotes, lefthandedly.

Go ahead, bitch. It's kinda almost funny, in a stupid kind of way.

calfoxwc

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

MLD Woody

@calfoxwc said:

Who actually did the quoting doesn't really matter.

The name Thomas Jefferson appears 16 times in the first post and is also seen in the thread title...

gftChris

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

calfoxwc

So basically you don't give a shit that they are fake so long as it agrees with your sensibilities? Illogic

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The sayings aren't fake, don't be a twit. Just that somebody else said them. Big freakin deal, not so much.

calfoxwc

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

DieHardBrownsFan

'Tits, ass and getting high. Thats what I'm talking about.'

JFF

gftChris

@diehardbrownsfan said:

'Tits, ass and getting high. Thats what I'm talking about.'

JFK

Fixed.

calfoxwc

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

gftChris

@calfoxwc said:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

http://www.redstate.com/diary/barrypopik/2009/11/12/dubious-origins-of-a-george-washington-quote-on-government/

Nope.

calfoxwc

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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calfoxwc

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; 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.
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calfoxwc

calfoxwc

gftChris

I think we broke Cal...

calfoxwc

"The Constitution preserves "the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison of Virginia, The Federalist, No. 46)

The Cysko Kid

Two feets they come a creepin'

Like a black cat do

And two bodies are lyin' naked

Creeper think he got nothin' to lose

So he creeps into this house, yeah

And unlocks the door

And while a man reaching for his trousers

Shoots him full of .38 holes

[Chorus]

Its a Saturday night special

Got a barrel that's blue and cold

Ain't no good for nothin'

But put a man six feet in a hole

Big Jim's been drinkin' whiskey

And playing poker on a losin' night

Pretty soon, Big Jim starts a thinkin'

Somebody been cheatin' and lyin'

So Big Jim commences to fightin'

I wouldn't tell you no lie

And Big Jim done grab his pistol

Shot his friend right between the eyes

[Chorus]

Hand guns are made for killin'

Ain't no good for nothin' else

And if you like your whiskey

You might even shoot yourself

So why don't we dump 'em people

To the bottom of the sea

Before some fool come around here

Wanna shoot either you or me

-Ronnie Van Zant

MLD Woody

@gftchris said:
I think we broke Cal...

He's just trying to bury his dumb posts and the topic in general ...

calfoxwc

calfoxwc

Enough with the mistruths about our right to bear arms:

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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. -

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago.

"The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves;
that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom
of the press."

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

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

I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.