[notamoocher]

I believe that life is a mess," he answered promptly. "It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move. The big eat the little that they may continue to move, the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, that is all.

CAPTAIN WOLF LARSEN fron THE SEA-WOLF by JACK LONDON. At the end of capter five when asked "What do you believe, then"

[tjacobson]

When faced with life or death, man hath no greater love than the love of a friend... Till the grass grows over me.

[ellwood45c]

May you be three days in heaven before the devil knows your dead.
Wilford brimley in crossfire trail

[Chandler51]

The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

-- Samuel Adams

[Chandler51]

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference...they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

-- George Washington

[Chandler51]

Instead of supplicating the protection of your enemies, meet them with arms in your hands... and let not your attachment to freedom be manifested only in your words.

-- John Jay, 1777

[Chandler51]

This one seems particularly applicable to the current day......

Democracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems.

-- F A Hayek

[Chandler51]

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

-- Thomas Jefferson

[Chandler51]

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may… become his own.

-- Thomas Jefferson

[Chandler51]

Those are a few of my favorites