Have we forgotten? - The Firearms Forum

obxned · 05-08-2009, 06:15 AM

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our grandchildren what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan

I read this quote from our last great president in a Mike Adams editorial. I've got kids, I've got grandkids, and seeing this hit me like a cattle prod.

Are we that generation The President was talking about?

ampaterry · 05-08-2009, 08:50 AM

I don't think it will happen in one generation.

Liberals are very patient.
They are happy with incrementat changes, as long as they are in the left direction. They will all get behind a single candidate, provided he agrees with SOME of the agenda of each one of them.

Conservatives are impatient. They will only support a candidate that meets ALL their criteria for leadership, and thus back several instead of one, causing them to frequently lose.

I already tell my grandkids about how free we were fifty years ago.
And they will tell their grandkids the same thing, I am sure, as we incrementally allow our freedoms to erode, bit by bit, over many generations.

Am I being black?
I don't know -
But I feel I am being accurate.

carver · 05-08-2009, 09:24 AM

Personally, I think it has already happened! This country is bankrupt! Our National debt is 3 times our National Gross Product. The folks in control of this country are not US, any longer, and hasn't been for many, many years! The politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have played loose with our money, the truth, and the religious beliefs that this Nation was founded on for a long time now. They have lied to us, and deceived us at every opportunity, while we slept! We are now starting to awaken, but I fear it is too late! We can no longer go back, we can only go along! The Socialist party is now in control, and they are not about to give that control up! Like a child, if they can't have it, then we can't either! They have, and will, destroy any hope for a FREE NATION!

millwright · 05-08-2009, 07:18 PM

Ronnie may have made his fortune speaking other people's lines, but it came down to the bottom line, his own were classics !! Yeah, I know he hired speech writers, but he also directed them and edited them !!!! >MW

bcj1755 · 05-09-2009, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by millwright

Ronnie may have made his fortune speaking other people's lines, but it came down to the bottom line, his own were classics !! Yeah, I know he hired speech writers, but he also directed them and edited them !!!! >MW

Well, at least his speech writers were better than the ones Barry has. And I'm sure Reagan could proceed without a teleprompter.

swiftman · 05-09-2009, 04:07 PM

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

05-08-2009, 06:15 AM	#1
obxned Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,342	Have we forgotten? Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our grandchildren what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan I read this quote from our last great president in a Mike Adams editorial. I've got kids, I've got grandkids, and seeing this hit me like a cattle prod. Are we that generation The President was talking about? __________________ Proud member of a North Carolina Committee of Safety "If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Stand on Earth!" Ronald Reagan -->

05-08-2009, 08:50 AM	#2
ampaterry TFF Admin Staff Chaplain Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: West Tennessee Contributor Posts: 6,269	Re: Have we forgotten? I don't think it will happen in one generation. Liberals are very patient. They are happy with incrementat changes, as long as they are in the left direction. They will all get behind a single candidate, provided he agrees with SOME of the agenda of each one of them. Conservatives are impatient. They will only support a candidate that meets ALL their criteria for leadership, and thus back several instead of one, causing them to frequently lose. I already tell my grandkids about how free we were fifty years ago. And they will tell their grandkids the same thing, I am sure, as we incrementally allow our freedoms to erode, bit by bit, over many generations. Am I being black? I don't know - But I feel I am being accurate. __________________ A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. Larry Elder

05-08-2009, 09:24 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	Re: Have we forgotten? Personally, I think it has already happened! This country is bankrupt! Our National debt is 3 times our National Gross Product. The folks in control of this country are not US, any longer, and hasn't been for many, many years! The politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have played loose with our money, the truth, and the religious beliefs that this Nation was founded on for a long time now. They have lied to us, and deceived us at every opportunity, while we slept! We are now starting to awaken, but I fear it is too late! We can no longer go back, we can only go along! The Socialist party is now in control, and they are not about to give that control up! Like a child, if they can't have it, then we can't either! They have, and will, destroy any hope for a FREE NATION! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

05-08-2009, 07:18 PM	#4
millwright Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,435	Re: Have we forgotten? Ronnie may have made his fortune speaking other people's lines, but it came down to the bottom line, his own were classics !! Yeah, I know he hired speech writers, but he also directed them and edited them !!!! >MW

05-09-2009, 04:07 PM	#6
swiftman V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: East Central Ill Posts: 220	Re: Have we forgotten? "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948