***FAMOUS LINES IN HISTORY

[Frankn]

Winston Churchill's tribute to President Roosevelt:
In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the new world to old.
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[Frankn]

Here's a famous line that was later incorporated into a song By: Stephen Collins Foster.
Weep no more, my lady,Oh! weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentuckey home, For the old Kentuckey home far away.

Here's another of his lines that later were used in a song.

Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air. Jeanie with the light brown hair.

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[Frankn]

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. By: Richard E. Byrd

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[Frankn]

My boks are water: those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. By: Clemens

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[Old Dog]

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Emma Lazarus 1849-1887

Best,
Scott

I had the hardest time convincing my Daughter it didn't say "yearning to breed free"

 

[Old Dog]

Forgive me for nor remembering the Admirials name....... I'm afraind all we've done is awaken a sleeping giant....

Japanese gentleman , I believe , that history proved correct .

Japanese General Yamamoto

 

[Frankn]

I have never seen this entire quote before.

Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are killed, the old men are all dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little childrens are freezing to death. Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever!
By: Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Tribe, late nineteenth century

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[Frankn]

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
By: Will Rogers, who was of Indian descent

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[Frankn]

Well, now I know where the modern versian came from!


" That's what I always say; if you wish a thing to be well done You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others!"
By: Captain Standish to JohnAlden

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[ivan salis]

"I have not yet begun to fight" -- john paul jones reply to the much larger and more powerful 44 gun british frigate Serapis to the call for him to surrender his burning and sinking vessel the Bonhomme Richard.

( then right now might be a darn good time to start -- one of his sailors)

jones eventually beat the Serapis and took her as a "prize"

 

[Frankn]

Throughout the world
Who is there like little me!
Who is like me!
I can touch the sky,
I can touch the sky indeed!
By: Chash-chunk-a :Winnebago Indians

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[truckinbutch]

"By God , Butch , things aint looking too good around here right now ."
Excerpt from a letter posted to me from e5 E.D.Jackson on 1/18/68 from Khe Sanh Marine Base , Viet
Nam .
By the time I received one of the last letters out of there before the battle ; his mother had been notified (in error) that he was killed in action . He has the notification framed and hung on his den wall .
The grunts knew , days before , that 'management' had allowed their front line butts to be backed into a corner .

 

[Old Dog]

"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

 

[Kiwijohn]

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."

 

[Frankn]

I've had a wounderful evening - but this wasn't it. By: Groucho Marx

A man may wear a red necktie,a green vest and tan shoes, and still be a gentleman. By: E.M.Statler- Statler Hotel Service Code, 1921

A "lady" is a women so incompetent as to have to take refuge in a secluded class, like kings and idiots, who have to be treated with special kindness because they can't take it. By: Sinclair Lewis-- 1941

In America there are two classes of travel- first class, and with children
By: Robert Benchley

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[ivan salis]

Once in africa while on safari , we lost all of my supplies and we had to live on nothing but food and water for several days --worse week of my life -- W.C. Feilds

Anyone who hates kids and small dogs can't be all bad. -- W.C Feilds

Go away kid , ya bother me.-- W. C. Feilds

My wife said it was her or THE GIN -- i told her , dear i've know gin longer and its promised to never leave me , and frankly i like its company better. -- W. C. Feilds

Why don't you come up and see me sometime ? Mae West

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me ? Mae West

 

[Frankn]

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
By: Robert Goodloe Harper, 1798

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. By: John C. Calhoun, 1811

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
By: Daniel Webster, 1850

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[Old Dog]

"Stand back son, ya might get hurt."

"Grumpy"-Bill Jenkins November 1976
Odessa Texas WinterNationals

 

[Frankn]

"The man without a country"


IN MEMORY OF
PHILIP NOLAN
LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMEY OF THE UNITED STATES
He loved his country as no other man has loved her
but no man deserves less at her hands


By: Edward Everett Hale

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[spartacus53]

What me Worry Alfred E Newman

I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member Groucho Marx

He who gets there first'est with the most'est Sidney Johnston

Was that you? Spartacus53