Memorable Quotes from John Wayne Movies
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."...The Shootist
"Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters."...Big Jake
"Hurry it up. We're burnin' daylight."...The Cowboys
"I've had my back broke once, and my hip twice, and on my worst day I could beat the hell out of you."...The Cowboys
"Oh, I know... I'm going to use good judgment. I haven't lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lotta trouble this morning... mighta got somebody killed... and somebody otta belt you in the mouth... but I won't... I won't... the hell I won't!"...Mclintock
"I never shot nobody I didn't have to!"...True Grit
Quotes from Soldiers
"I just want everyone to understand that this dialogue is not about 'Can we vote our way out of a war.' We have an enemy who has declared war on us. We are in a war. They want to stop us from living the way we want to live our lives. So the dialogue is not about 'Are we in a war' but how and where and when to best fight that war to preserve our freedom and to preserve our way of life and to do so with the least damage to our own society and the least damage to those who we're fighting against so we can put the pieces back together on the end of this. We will prevail. There's no doubt about that."--General Peter Pace, U.S. Marine Corps
"In fact, the adversary we were up against in the Pacific was very much like the adversary we face today in the Jihads - the goal is the same, simply to drive Westerners out of their part of the world. They wanted nothing to do with Western values or institutions like democracy." -- Colonel Oliver North
”The way I look at it, we’re spreading freedom, and you have to support the troops and you have to support the war. You can’t just tell some Marine who just lost his buddy that we supported you but not the war, because in that case you’re basically saying that Marine, his buddy, just died for nothing. We’re one team.” -- Lance Cpl. Jeremy Staat, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, former defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and St. Louis Rams
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- General Douglas MacArthur
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- Attributed to General George Patton Jr.
"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."--General Robert E. Lee
"Every man of you who is equipped, follow me. Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin here." --Captain John Parker, Commander, Lexington Militia Company, Lexington, MA, 19 April 1775, as British troops approached on their march to Concord
Quotes on the Second Amendment and Gun Ownership
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Thomas Jefferson, "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776
The Constitution preserves "the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -- James Madison, The Federalist, No. 46
"[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." -- Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775
"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possesion and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"-- Patrick Henry
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." -- George Washington, Address to 1st session of Congress
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" --Benjamin Franklin, 1759
"They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible."--David Kopel, Civil Rights Attorney
"The advice on self-defense that I received after [my] assault was 'Don't get a gun. It will only add to the violence.' Never having been exposed to guns before, this seemed to make sense -- until I was attacked again."--Rebecca Wyatt, Founder of Safety for Women and Responsible Motherhood, Inc.
"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy....If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."--Edward Abbey
Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke (American author, former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon)
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." -- PJ O'Rourke
"Political systems must love poverty—they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There’s a conspiracy theory in there somewhere." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the
environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the
biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it." -- P. J.
O'Rourke
Funny Quotes
"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."--Hank Aaron
"I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser."--Arnold Palmer
"Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything!"--Steve martin
"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."--Rodney Dangerfield
"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."--Rodney Dangerfield
"Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy."-- Gary Busey
"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."--- Rita Rudner
"Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts."--- Jeff Foxworthy
"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never."--Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Information Minister under Saddam Hussein
"Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."--Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Information Minister under Saddam Hussein