RIP Bill Dailey
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Showing posts with label Great Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Quotes. Show all posts
Having a bad day? Need something to put a smile back on your face? There is always the wit and wisdom of the gunners guru, Col. Jeff Cooper and his Cooperisms.....
We need some more folks like the late Colonel, for sure.
"Once each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments and memorials of our Nation's Capital just beyond, the graves of America's military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave souls followed and loved. This scene is repeated across our land and around the world, wherever our defenders rest. Let us hold it our sacred duty and our inestimable privilege on this day to decorate these graves ourselves -- with a fervent prayer and a pledge of true allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace, and country for which America's own have ever served and sacrificed. ... Our pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered and guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know, as have our Nation's defenders down through the years, that there can never be peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice and independence. Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember this Memorial Day. To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our country's own." --Ronald Reagan
After recently sticking my head into the liberal hornets nest called the Raleigh News & Observer, the following quotes seem appropriate:
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper
“Criminals are not dissuaded by soft words, soft judges or easy laws. They are dissuaded by fear and they are prevented from repeating their crimes by death or by incarceration.” Ronald Reagan, 1975
"Sadly, being helpless themselves, sheep tend to instinctively fear anything with canine teeth. Many of them cannot distinguish between the wolf and the sheepdog, and thus fear them both equally."- Massad Ayoob
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-Winston Churchill
They spoke of him as the "British Bulldog" for a very good reason. We would do well to heed his words.
I do not feel worthy of commenting on the greatest patriot of Southern States. Thus I refer you to gentlemen greater than I for a quiet moment of reflection on this 201st remembrance of his birth.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg011905.asp
http://miley.wlu.edu/LeePapers/index.html
http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm
and don't miss Paul Greenberg's annual column on the subject:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg011909.php3
God Bless the South, and Robert E. Lee.
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