Rye Bailey > Rye's Quotes

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
― Steven Wright

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”
― John Hancock

“I have not yet begun to fight.”
― John Paul Jones

“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
― John Parker

“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect - We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny meditated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
― George Washington

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Tom Paine

“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!”
― Israel Putnam

“Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit -- appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.”
― Joseph Warren

“May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!”
― Joseph Warren