Trey

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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - -- Albert Einstein

"If a tree falls, do the squirrels get FEMA trailers?"

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H.L. Mencken

"Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. "
Frank Pierce (Nicholas Cage) in Bringing out the Dead.

"A man's greatest work is to crush his enemies, to drive them before him, to take all that had been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to clasp their horses between his knees and press into his arms the most desirable of their women."
Genghis Kahn

"A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less Formidable, for he is known and he carriers his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government Itself. For the traitor appears not traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation-he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city-he infects the body Politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
--Cicero 42 BC

"Finding a love like ours is like nailing Jello to a tree, Impossible."

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours, and recovery is when Obama loses his.”

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible for the ungrateful for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing"

"Listen Kid, I drove this truck down alleys you wouldn't carry the steering wheel"

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. - Dave Barry

Fuck, Fight, or Hold the Light.

Friends Don't Let Friends Ride American LaChance."

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

As I've matured I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less important ones just never go away.

"I think it takes a particular coward to criticize procedures that you don't understand; particularly when they apply to places that you don't have the bravery to go" Battalion Chief John Sullivan, Bronx Black Sunday Fire Trial

"Putting fancy tools into poorly-trained hands simply makes for more expensive errors."

You only have to be stupid once to be dead permanently

No one has ever called Fire/EMS because someone has done something smart.

When all is said and done, alot more is said than done

Admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof, and make counter accusations.

EMS is the last three letters of the word "PROBLEMS"

When you lose your head in a fire, the next thing you lose will be your ass.

The only thing louder than a bang that is supposed to go click is a click that is supposed to go bang.

"If ever 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." -- Samuel Adams

If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos.....then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation or you work EMS.

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.

I asked, "Lord, what about when there was only one set of footprints and also a straight line with bootprints on one side and small, round circles on the other?" The Lord replied, "Those were the times that I carried you, and we were joined by a pirate pushing a wheelbarrow."

"It is very difficult for a normal man to realize that he is suddenly in danger of death. The time it takes him to realize this and act upon it may be too long to save his life. Thus the prime quality of the gunfighter-- more important than either marksmanship or manual speed-- is the instant readiness to react to a threat."

30,000,000 legal firearm owners killed no one yesterday.

To prohibit ordinary individuals from owning efficient instruments of self-defence, while cops and politicians’ bodyguards are more and more powerfully armed, is not exactly a paragon of civilization.

A question of state power
The issue of gun control is really the issue of state power: those who want more control want the state to have more power; those who want less control just want to be free.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves -Abraham Lincoln

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Jules - PULPFICTION

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." ~ Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942

As a child I had a nightlight made by playskool to keep me safe, as an adult I have one made by Trijicon.

“In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say "Stop, or I'll say stop again." ~ Robin Williams

"The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an asset. You know what to do and fear just makes you do it faster. On the other hand, if you don't know what to do -- or don't trust what you know -- then you will freeze in terror, because you have no clear goal or way to get there. Fear helps, panic hinders. Fear is your savior, panic your nemesis." -- Marc MacYoung

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

BE PREPARED - Noah didn't build the Ark when it was raining!

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined". - Patrick Henry

"Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur."

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin 1759

You know the difference between God and a Paramedic? God knows he is not a Paramedic.

"Volunteers are not paid, not because they are worthless but because they are priceless." - Anonymous

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

The price of freedom isn't free!!!
If you can read this, thank a teacher!
If you can read this in english, thank a Veteran!!!

"Garbage men don't get excited when they come around the corner and see a big pile of trash, so when you come around the corner and see fire blowing out the windows of a house, relax, your a fireman, thats why they called you." - Unknown

"Training is learning the rules, experience is learning the exceptions." - Unknown

"A lot of people I have met are like slinkies, not really good for much, but fun to watch as you push them down the stairs." - Unknown

"Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic." - Unknown

"To every man, there comes a time in his lifetime, that special moment, when he is tapped on the sholder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared and unqualified for the work that would be his finest hour." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know i'm not perfect - and I don't live to be but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean." - Bob Marley

"If what you did yesterday still impresses you. You haven't done shit today!" - Unknown (Stolen from John Tupper's Profile)

"Most people learn by observation, and there are the few who learn by experimentation. And then there are those who actually TOUCH the fire to see if it's really hot." - Unknown