Tuesday, November 11, 2008

George Washington Quote

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour.
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.

A free people ought...to be armed. -- Speech of Jan. 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, Jan. 14, 1790. George Washington


This quote was brought to my attention by a crazy (soon to be lawyer) in the Bay area. Lets hope that we never have to defend ourselves from our own government; but in the mean time buy all the guns and ammo you can afford like you were planning on it.

8 comments:

Amanda said...

oh goodness... you and chris.
can he keep his guns at your house? he's determined to stock up & i don't really need a small-grade weapons armory at my house...
ps. this is a formal request for pictures of your beautiful wife- i want to see her belly!

-KJ said...

Me too, Amanda! Get some of those up post haste.

Hey, if you don't stock up on your food storage, guns and ammo is another way to go. ;)

Chris said...

when amanda says "his guns", she means my little .22 rifle. child's play, I know, but I have plans for something bigger...hehe...

great quote ben, and by the way, guess what we found the other day? In one of the books we got in China we found the picture of you and laura on the chairlift! we must have forgotten to give it to you when we got back! We'll bring it to vegas over thanksgiving.

McEwen Family said...

You may know "kung fu" but I know "click pow". Remember who said that? That's another great quote; however, not from someone as esteemed as G.W.

Andy

Matt and Kay Jones said...

preaching to the choir preaching to the choir we have that quote on a billboard as you enter the city limits of Redding.

Ben said...

Amanda,
When someone breaks into your house what're you going to do; throw your nurse tools at them? Chris needs guns and lots of them.

KJ,
Ya Ya we have food storage too; how you gonna protect the food storage when it (not the food) hits the fan? Oh yeah you live in SLC where everyone will just be nice to each other and will practice the law of consecration.

Chris,
Buy more guns and ammo.

Andy and Matt,
As brothers of the new mormon militia training starts this month. We'll start like the Taliban did on the monkey bars and running thru tires.

Amanda said...

nurse tools? what, may i ask, would that entail?

if you mean my scalpels and needles... then yes!

charity said...

amen. thanks for the quote ben. how about a preg update??? LP, how you feeling???