ltdiver 3 #1 March 19, 2003 In times like these, when we are faced with the unknown of what the future will hold, let us find courage and uplift each other, support each other, and remember the words of those who have gone before us. Here is a quote I saw emblazoned on a large picture of a flag today. From former President John F. Kennedy. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) Feel free to add to this thread in words that bring us together and not divide. ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
misskriss 0 #2 March 19, 2003 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear. - Mark Twain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #3 March 19, 2003 I seen JFK when I was 6 at a rally for the 1960 race in my little hometown in Illinois. I was in 4th grade when he was shot, remember all the girls crying in class when the teacher told us what happened. He must have been the last Democratic president with balls (no pun re: Clinton) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #4 March 19, 2003 In light of increased apprensions around the globe and also because I just finished watching the masterful "Children of Dune" I offer this: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- The Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear Dune by Frank Herbert KrisSky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
misskriss 0 #5 March 19, 2003 I have to post another one.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggers; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, becausei am friend of its happiness; when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government. -----Thomas Paine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #6 March 19, 2003 Quote I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Heh, I was going to post that, but I think my book is burried in a box in my folks' garage One of my favorite quotes though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #7 March 19, 2003 Sorry about my earlier post, it's quotes here...hmmmm......if ya can't beat em join em....Sadam Hussein 2003?..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bbarnhouse 0 #8 March 19, 2003 QuoteThe Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear My favorite.......thanks Kris. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #9 March 19, 2003 My favorite quotes are from Ben Franklin. Guess it comes from living a few blocks from his house. "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of." "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier." "God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country! " Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #10 March 19, 2003 "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Also "I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands, and wrote my will across the sky in stars, to earn you Freedom." TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Seven Pillars of Wisdom-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #11 March 19, 2003 No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii. Thomas HobbesIt's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #12 March 19, 2003 Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise. Letter to Cobham. William CongreveIt's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #13 March 19, 2003 Dude....interesting quotes, but man, I feel like slashing my wrists now. Where are the uplifting ones? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #14 March 19, 2003 "I am William Wallace. And, I see a whole army of my country men, here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as freemen, and freemen you are. What will you do without freedom?! Will you fight? ..... Aye. Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" Yay! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #15 March 19, 2003 Any quote which forces you to use intellect to understand it an be either uplifting or depressing.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #16 March 19, 2003 Bingo! Now that's what I'm talking about!It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #17 March 19, 2003 "The war is just, which is necessary." - Niccolo Macchiavelli "War spares not the brave, but the cowardly." - Anachreon "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." --General Douglas MacArthur "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." --Churchill "So long as there are men, there will be wars." --Albert Einstein "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." --Epitoma Rei Militaris, by Vegetius. "The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." --Saint Augustine "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!" --Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --John Stuart Mill "Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certanity is that nothing is certain or unchangeable." --JFK "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydyvr 0 #18 March 19, 2003 "The only people who have no enemies are people who stand for nothing" - don't know . . =(_8^(1) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
