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<\/a>I am an American and a Patriot.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cYou cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Talk is cheap. What you do is more important than what you say. It is the what you do that makes all the difference. Substance is what matters\/counts.”<\/p>\n
“Leadership is action, not position.”<\/p>\n
“Winners take responsibility when something goes wrong; losers point fingers and blame others.”<\/p>\n
“A Great Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n “A person is rich or poor according to what he or she is and does, not according to what he or she has and says.”<\/p>\n “You have three choices in life: give in, give up, or give it your all (and never give up).”<\/p>\n “When we give up, we know our fate. When we keep going, we have earned the right to choose our destiny.”<\/p>\n “Be Strong when you are weak; Be Brave when you are scared; Be Humble when you are victorious; Be a Bad ass Every Day!”<\/p>\n “Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n “A fine line separates a Fighter from a Warrior. One is motivated by reason, the other by purpose. One fights to live, while the other lives to fight.”<\/p>\n “Be Strong, but not Rude; be Kind, but not Weak; be Bold, but not a Bully; be Humble, but not Timid; be Proud, but not Arrogant.”<\/p>\n “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n We The People will defend our Freedom with God, Guns, and Guts from Tyrants.<\/p><\/div>\n “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”–Alexander Hamilton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don\u2019t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can\u2019t find them, make them.\u201d\u2013George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The future depends on what we do in the present.”–Mahatma Gandhi<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.\u201d\u2013Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.”<\/p>\n “Blood is thicker than water.”–Josiah Tattnall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n President George Washington<\/p><\/div>\n “Give me Liberty! or Give me Death!”\u2013Patrick Henry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”<\/p>\n “Every person in the world benefits from American ingenuity, imagination, and innovation. All creativity, design, development, and technology has an American fingerprint on it.”<\/p>\n “Better to live one day as a tiger, than a thousand as a sheep.”<\/p>\n “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”–George Washington<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”<\/p>\n President John Adams<\/p><\/div>\n “Ignorance is contagious, be careful.”<\/p>\n \u201cFailure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.\u201d\u2013Robert T. Kiyosaki<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”–Julius Caesar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Men and women are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”–Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.\u201d\u2013Galileo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.”–Frederick Douglass<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSocialism is a philosophy of failure, creed of ignorance and gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery.\u201d\u2013Winston Churchill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFor true patriots to be silent is dangerous.\u201d\u2013Samuel Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible.”\u2013Patrick Henry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “A free people ought to be armed.”–George Washington<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.\u201d\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.\u201d\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”\u2013George S. Patton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The real hero is the man or woman who fights even though he or she is scared.”\u2013George S. Patton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God<\/a><\/em>, but my\u00a0God<\/a><\/em> eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.”<\/p>\n Never apologize for being an American Patriot.<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cIf ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.\u201d\u2013Samuel Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires of freedom in minds of men.”\u2013Samuel Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words.”\u2013Samuel Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Honor, courage and commitment are the values that guide us\u2014Semper Fidelis<\/em><\/a>–is the motto that bonds us. To guard our nation is to guard its principles, becoming not only an elite warrior, but also a noble one. Always remain faithful to the mission at hand, to each other, to the Corps and to country, no matter what. Lead by example. Display self-reliance, discipline, and responsibility.”–U.S. Marines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA coward talks to everyone but You.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA socialist is somebody who doesn\u2019t have anything and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.\u201d\u2013George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSocialism: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. If it implodes, it\u2019s someone else\u2019s problem.\u201d\u2013Margaret Thatcher<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”<\/p>\n “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Wake Up Americans and Get Ready To Fight for Our Country.<\/p><\/div>\n “Don’t interfere with anything in the U.S. Constitution<\/a><\/em>. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “God will not hold us guiltless.”<\/p>\n “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”<\/p>\n “Most economic fallacies–Socialism, Fascism, and Communism; assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”–Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”\u2013Thomas Paine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the U.S. Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the U.S. Constitution.\u201d\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWith public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.\u201d\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.\u201d\u2013Patrick Henry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains”\u2013Patrick Henry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “A brother is a friend given by God<\/a><\/em>. All for one and one for all. My brother and my friend. The time we share brother until the end.”<\/p>\n “All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.”\u2013Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot build character and courage by taking away a man\u2019s initiative and independence.\u201d\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n President Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/div>\n “I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life. I am an American Soldier.”–U.S. Soldier’s Creed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.\u201d\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.\u201d\u2013John F. Kennedy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIgnorance is the root and the stem of every evil.\u201d\u2013 Plato<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Don\u2019t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”–Calvin Coolidge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “A nation cannot prosper if it vilifies the prosperous, nor can it succeed if it punishes the successful, nor can it lead if it is leaderless.”<\/p>\n “Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”–James Madison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.\u201d\u2013John Quincy Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”\u2013Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.\u201d\u2013Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n I am Liberty, Freedom, and Truth: The United States Constitution.<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man\u2019s character, give him power.\u201d\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.\u201d\u2013Confucius<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people”\u2013John Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.\u201d\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\u201d\u2013 Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.\u201d\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOne man with courage is a majority.\u201d\u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.\u201d\u2013 Charles De Gaulle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “If we lose Freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.\u201d\u2013Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n “The general principles on which the Founding Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity<\/a>.”\u2013John Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt.\u201d\u2013John Adams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>