"Seems
to me that if you're afraid or living with some big fear, you're not
really living. You're only half alive. I don't care if it’s the boss
you're scared of or a lot of people in a room or diving off of a dinky
little board, you gotta get rid of it. You owe it to yourself. Makes
sort of a zombie out of you being afraid. I mean you want to be free,
don't you? And how can you if you are scared?
That's prison. Fear's a jailer. Mind now, I'm not a professor on the
subject. I just found it out for myself. But that's what I think."
Audie Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971)
Audie
Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated
American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military
combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French
and Belgian awards for heroism. The 19-year-old Murphy received the
Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company of
Germans for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then
leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy
(Audie
received his first degree in Masonry when he was regularly initiated,
February 14, 1955, in North Hollywood [California] Lodge No. 542, Free
and Accept Masons of California. He was passed to the Fellowcraft degree
on April 4, 1955. On June 27, 1955, he was raised to the degree of a
Master Mason. Later, he became a dual member with Heritage Lodge No.
764, North Hollywood, [now Magnolia Park No. 618] on May 14, 1956.
Audie took his degree work in the Scottish Rite Temple in Dallas on
November 11-14, 1957, according to records located at the temple. After
receiving his 32nd degree, Audie was elected vice president of the
Thomas B. Hunter Memorial Class.
Audie became a Shriner [Hella
Temple, Dallas] on November 15, 1957. Audie was made a "Master of the
Royal Secret" in the Valley of Dallas, Orient of Texas, on November 14,
1965. Audie was also decorated a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor
KCCH) on December 11, 1965. Audie affiliated with the Long Beach
Scottish Rite Bodies on April 2, 1971. Two weeks previously, on March
19, 1971, Shriner Murphy affiliated with the Al Malaikah Temple in Los
Angeles.)
http://www.muratshrine.org/bios/murphy.php
He finds your lack of faith in freedom disturbing.
Hurlbut William Smith (June 24, 1865 - December 16, 1951)
An organizer of the L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. in 1903, of
which he was director and member of Executive board; was president,
treasurer, and chairman of executive board of L. C. Smith & Corona
Typewriters, Inc. b. June 24, 1865 in Centre Lisle, N.Y. Began in the
gun manufacturing works of L. C. Smith; was later with Smith Premier
Typewriter Co. as treasurer, until 1903.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=76520452
(Member
of Central City Lodge No. 305, Syracuse, N.Y., receiving degrees on
Nov. 23, 1897, Feb. 15, March 8, 1898. 32° AASR (NJ) and Shriner. d.
Dec. 16, 1951.)
There are three Bartles: The Bartle who makes money, the Bartle who gives it away, and the Bartle who works for free.
~Harold Roe Bartle
Harold
Roe Bennett Sturdevant Bartle (June 25, 1901 – May 9, 1974) was a
businessman, philanthropist, Boy Scout executive, and professional
public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.
After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team
to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the
Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, "The Chief."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Roe_Bartle
http://usscouts.org/honorsociety/lonebear.asp
Selected speeches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6TScdeMBrA
(Member of Lebanon Lodge No. 87 in Kentucky plus the Ararat Shriners of Kansas City, Missouri)
There
are four categories of voting on the floor of the Senate. The first are
those who have been described as ones who can hear the farthest drum
before the cry of a single hungry child. Then there is the group who can
hear every child, whether he is hungry or not, before they can hear a
single drum. Then you have a third group, who say, “Nothing can happen
to the almighty dollar, so we will vote
for all the children and all the drums.” The time has come when we must
have some priorities with respect to the way we are allocating our
steadily decreasing resources, else it should be clear to everybody—that
the economy of the United States could well be destroyed.
Stuart
Symington (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988), remarks in the Senate,
November 23, 1971.—Congressional Record, vol. 117, p. 2896
William
Stuart Symington, Jr. (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988)
was an American businessman and politician from Missouri. He served as
the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a
Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Symington
(Frank R. Lawrence Lodge 797, Rochester, NY)
Masonic Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Confirmed Masonic Membership of the following:
William Ellery, RI
Benjamin Franklin, PA
John Hancock, MA
Joseph Hewes, NC
William Hooper, NC
Robert Treat Paine, MA
Richard Stockton, NJ
George Walton, GA
William Whipple, NH
Others whose membership is rumored or probable, but not proven by records:
Elbridge Gerry, MA
Thomas Jefferson, VA
Richard Henry Lee, VA
Thomas McKean, DE
Robert Morris, PA
Thomas Nelson, Jr., VA
John Penn, NC
Benjamin Rush, PA
Roger Sherman, CT
James Smith, PA
John Witherspoon, NJ
