Quotes March 17, 2023

“Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if your name is Eisenhower, you’ve got to wear something green to show it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“We live in two worlds… the world into which we were born, and the otherworld that was born within us. Both may be a blessing or a curse. We choose.”
attributed as a Druid homily
 
 
 
 
“We have no word for the man who is excessively fearless; perhaps one may call such a man mad or bereft of feeling, who fears nothing, neither earthquakes nor waves, as they say of the Celts”
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence”. January 30, 1787
“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
Thomas Jefferson, Welsh-American Celt
 
 
 
 
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams, Scot-American Celt
 
 
 
 
“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.”
New World Celt George Washington at Valley Forge.
 
 
 
 
“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”…”Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
General George S. Patton, Jr. Scot-American Celt, England, 31 May 1944
 
 
 
 
“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. ”
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), (America’s 28th president, Wilson was born to parents of mainly Scots descent. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to Ohio in the 19th century.)