Quote of the Day, October 28 - November 3
"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."
- John Brown
"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."
- John Brown
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
General George S. Patton, Jr.
"Abolish God, and the government becomes the god."
G.K. Chesterton
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
- Thomas Jefferson
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and thus clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H.L. Mencken
"A good plan, executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
General George S. Patton, Jr.
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
- Thomas Jefferson
If you find a starving dog and help him to prosperity, he will never bite you.
Therein lays the difference between dogs and humans.
- Mark Twain
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
- Edmund Burke
"Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
G.K. Chesterton
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
- Sir Winston Churchill after signing an unpopular pact with Joseph Stalin in 1941.
The staunchly anti-communist British Prime Minister signed this pact before the US joined the Allies after Pearl Harbor.
Mr. Churchill understood the UK wouldn't beat the Nazis without the help of the Soviets - who were fighting their own war against the Germans.
The pact was incredibly unpopular among the Brits, who saw Stalin as akin to Satan. Hence the quote.
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
"Law-abiding citizens are left at a disadvantage - caught between a criminal class that disdains the law and a ruling class that disdains the Constitution."
- Joe Sobran
Quote of the Week, July 15-21 2007
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The one absolute certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to be become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
Quote of the Week, June 24 - June 30, 2007
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson
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Welcome to 2 Valuable. My name is Jay, and as you may have guessed by the title, this blog is primarily about and in defense of the 2nd Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I am also a history geek, motorcyclist, writer, and interested in just about everything, so I will comment off-topic a lot.I try very hard to give credit to all non-original material. There are rare cases where I do not know who to credit, and I apologize.
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