Our Favorite Quotes

"Come and take them."
King Leonidas

 

“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
― Adolf Hitler

 

Sorry if some of these were up already...


“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

That one's real.

But he was talking about administering conquered territory, not ruling his own Geman (non-Jewish) citizens.

 

“...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...”
― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea



“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.”
― Lin Pardey, Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife



“I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The House of Dead Maids

 

Probably; it doesn't pass the smell test. Because Hitler never tried to disarm the ordinary German citizen -- who was on his side.....

 

“The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.”
― Adolf Hitler

 

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.
Charles Bower


“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King


“A rising tide lifts all boats”
Proverb

 

I hope you aren't quoting Hitler's excuses for declaring war on the US as actually being relevant commentary about the country....

 

You may be right.

 

Big Big Trouble !!
(Bart Simpson)

 

So the German Jews weren't ordinary German citizens. They didn't know that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick

"On November 11, 1938, the Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, promulgated Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons. This regulation effectively deprived Jews of the right to possess firearms or other weapons."

 

LOL

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

 

"If anyone ever invents a time machine in my life time, the first thing I would do is go back and give that **** Hitler a good smack."
Number4

Chill out Troy,
Still, there are probably plenty of politicians around the world who would find a little truth in that being applied to them.
Best Wishes,
Adam

 

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant