***FAMOUS LINES IN HISTORY

[Frankn]

THERE IS NOT A SINGLE HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC WHICH CAN BE SAFELY LABELE AS "AMERICAN".
By: Mark Twain

​

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[Frankn]

ALL FREE GOVERNMENTS ARE MANAGED BY THE COMBINED WISDOM AND FOLLY OF THE PEOPLE.
By: James Russell Lowell

​

 

[Shortstack]

"Our present President is living proof that any dum-ash can be elected to that illustrious office" : Me.

 

[AU24K]

THERE IS NOT A SINGLE HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC WHICH CAN BE SAFELY LABELE AS "AMERICAN".
By: Mark Twain

​

WOW!
That's pretty thought inspiring.
Never really thought about it but it is SO true!

Best,
Scott

 

[joecoin]

"My good friends, this is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now I recommend you go home, and sleep quietly in your beds. "

Neville Chamberlain

 

[AU24K]

"My good friends, this is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now I recommend you go home, and sleep quietly in your beds. "

Neville Chamberlain

I remember that period of time from my History lessons. What type of politician was Chamberlain? An apologetic liberal?
Just curious...

Best,
Scott

 

[Frankn]

I WOULD RATHER LOOSE IN A CASE THAT I KNOW SOME DAY WILL TRIUMPH THAN TO TRIUMPH IN A CASE THAT I KNOW SOME DAY WILL FAIL. By: Wendell L. Willkie

​

 

[Frankn]

A SHIP IS ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS "SHE" BECAUSE IT COST SO MUCH TO KEEP ONE IN POWDER AND PAINT. By: Chester William Nimitz...1940

​

 

[Frankn]

This one must have been written for treasure hunters.

IT IS NOT DOWN ON ANY MAP, TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE.
By: Herman Melville...1856..The Piazza Tales " The Encantadas,"

​

 

[Dano Sverige]

John F. Kennedy, speech, New York Times, October 13, 1960.
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

John F. Kennedy, 1961
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Whoops,must be related to Chamberlain? What a difference a year makes eh?

Gen. Curtis LeMay, May 1964
Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

Hmm,they wern't that far advanced from the stone age as it was..it was a nice pipedream though Curtis!

...And Chamberlain was known as "the mouse of commons"!

 

[Frankn]

Dano: I don't know why we get into wars we don't have the heart for. You can't teather the generals and win. We could have won Korea and Nam if we didn't restrict our generals so. Look what B O just did in Afgan.
You don't fire a man who disagrees with you, you find out why he disagrees with you. He might have a better idea. Then again maybe that is why he was fired!


WHEN I JOINED THE ARMY, EVEN BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, IT WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL MY BOYHOOD HOPES AND DREAMS...I STILL REMEMBER THE REFRAIM OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BARRACKS BALLARDS OF THE DAY,WHICH PROCLAIMED MOST PROUDLY THAT OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE; THEY JUST FADE AWAY. I NOW CLOSE MY MILITARY CAREER AND JUST FADE AWAY.
Address before a joint meeting of congress, April 19,1951 By: Douglass MacArthor

​

 

[Frankn]

WE CANNOT TRULY KNOW WHO WE ARE OR WHERE WE ARE GOING UNLESS WE KNOW WHERE WE HAVE BEEN. By: David McCullough

​

 

[ivan salis]

be careful of what you in your folly seek -- for it may find you , and then what will occur to you ?

 

[AU24K]

"An expert knows more and more about less and less."
Nicholas Murray Butler 1862-1947


Scott

 

[Frankn]

AU24K: That may be true, but he still knows the same about the less!

GIVE US THE LUXURIES OF LIFE, AND WE WILL DISPENCE WITH THE NECESSITIES.
By: John Lothrop Motley

Did you ever read Karl Marx? I think I never struck a book which taught me so much, and with which I disagreed so radically in conclusion. By: Henry Adams

A friend in power is a lost friend. Henry Adams...1907

​

 

[AU24K]

"De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum."
"Of the two evils the lesser is always to be chosen."
Thomas A. Kempis c. 1380-1471


Scott

PS. This seems to be a motto used by voters in most elections...

 

[Frankn]

AU24K: I always vote, and when I do I am always voting against someone. You see I know the past but can only guess as to the future.


Most of our so called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
By:James Harvey Robinson cie 1921

​

 

[USTiger]

"what you talking about willis" --- Gary Coleman in Diff'rent Strokes
"Well that's just great. Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy. " - Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters I
"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But, you can either run from it or, learn from it." - Robert Guillaume as Rafiki in The Lion King

USTiger

 

[Old Dog]

"Isn't it great to live in a society where the penalty for lying to a congressman can be up to 30 years in jail, but the penalty for a congressman lying to you is another two years in office."

 

[Frankn]

There's a cure for that, It's called the FIFTY AMENDMENT! The cure for the second part is getting off your duff and voting. A permanant cure would be term limits.

​