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QUOTATIONS FROM MY "PRIVATE" COLLECTION
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"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate,
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secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their
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citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they
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confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many,
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it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden
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forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in
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a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose."
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- John Maynard Keynes
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Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
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"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in
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man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
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Constitution."
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- Thomas Jefferson
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"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply.
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See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and
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gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the
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law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what
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the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
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- Frederic Bastiat
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The Law
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"There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful,
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so interlocked, so pervasive that they better not speak above their
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breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
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- President Woodrow Wilson
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"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed
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than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too
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often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in
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silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is
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the duty of the good citizen not to be silent."
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- Charles Eliot Norton
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True Patriotism, 1898
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
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triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
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take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
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much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
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twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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"Nearly everyone will lie to you given the
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right circumstances."
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- Bill Clinton
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Time
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"A man must first govern himself ere
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he is fit to govern a family; and his
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family ere he be fit to bear the
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government of the commonwealth."
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- Sir Walter Raleigh
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"Society is well governed when the people
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obey the magistrates, and the magistrates
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obey the laws."
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- Solon
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"No government is respectable which is not
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just.-Without unspotted purity of public faith,
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without sacred public principle, fidelity, and
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honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity
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to political society."
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- Daniel Webster
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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a
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general knowledge among the people, who
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have...a right, an indisputable, unalienable,
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indefeasible, divine right to that most
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dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean
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THE CHARACTERS AND CONDUCT OF THEIR RULERS."
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[emphasis mine]
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- John Adams
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"The less government we have the better -
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the fewer laws and the less confided power.
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The antidote to this abuse of formal government
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is the influence of private character, the growth
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of the individual."
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Vice incapacitates a man from all public
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duty; it withers the powers of his under-
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standing, and makes his mind paralytic."
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- Edmund Burke
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"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds
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of those who posses it; and this I know, my
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lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins."
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- William Pitt
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"No government ought to exist for the purpose
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of checking the prosperity of its people or to
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allow such a principle in its policy."
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- Edmund Burke
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"The proper function of a government
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is to make it easy for the people to
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do good and difficult for them to do
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evil."
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- Gladstone
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(paraphrased)
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"If you put the federal government in charge
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of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be
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a shortage of sand."
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-Milton Friedman
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The deterioration of every government begins
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with the decay of the principles on which it
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was founded.
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- C. L. De Montesquieu
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The Spirit of the Laws, VIII
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"They that can give up essential liberty
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to obtain a little temporary safety
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deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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- Benjamin Franklin
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"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay
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too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little
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money - that is all. When you pay too little, you
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sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
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bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought
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to do. The common law of business balance prohibits
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paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done
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If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add
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something for the risk you run, and if you do that you
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will have enough to pay for something better."
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- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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"Not to know what has been transacted in
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former times is to be always a child. If
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no use is made of the labors of past ages,
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the world must remain always in the
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infancy of knowledge."
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-CICERO
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***
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"A man should never be ashamed to own he
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has been in the wrong, which is but say-
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ing, in other words, that he is wiser to-
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day than he was yesterday."
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- ALEXANDER POPE
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"I believe there are more instances of
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the abridgement of the freedom of the
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people by gradual and silent encroach-
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ments of those in power than by violent
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and sudden usurpations."
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-JAMES MADISON
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth
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is to use it."
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-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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"I believe that it is better to tell the
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truth than a lie. I believe it is beter to
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be free than to be a slave. And I believe
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it is better to know than to be ignorant."
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-H.L.MENCKEN
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"Truth is God's daughter."
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- Spanish Proverb
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"He who conceals a useful truth is equally
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guilty with the propagator of an injurious
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falsehood."
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- Augustine
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"Politics would be a helluva good business
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if it weren't for the goddamned people."
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- Richard M. Nixon
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"Who's in or out, who moves the grand
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machine,
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Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen;
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Secrets of state no more I wish to know
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Than secret movements of a puppet-show;
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Let but the puppets move, I've my desire,
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Unseen the hand which guides the master
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wire."
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- Churchill
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"The dove of peace has become the
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ostrich of complacency."
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- Jeanne Kirkpatrick
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"I wish that I may never think the smiles
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of the great and powerful a sufficient
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inducement to turn aside from the straight
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path of honesty and the convictions of my
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own mind."
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- David Ricardo, economist
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Dec. 22, 1818
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"There is no safety for honest men
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but by believing all possible evil
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of evil men."
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- Edmund Burke
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"Certainly it is a world of scarcity.
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But the scarcity is not confined to
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iron ore and arable land. The most
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constricting scarcities are those of
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character and personality."
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- William R. Allen, Prof.
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U.C.L.A.
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***
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"Let us cling to our principles as the
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mariner clings to his last plank when
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night and tempest close around him.
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And oftener changed their principles
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than their shirts."
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- Dr. Young
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"Men are born with two eyes, but with
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one tongue, in order that they should see
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twice as much as they say."
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- Colton
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"Purity is the feminine,
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truth the masculine, of honor."
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- Hare
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"Treason doth never prosper. What's the
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reason?
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Why, when it prospers, none dare call it
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treason."
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- Sir John Harrington
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals
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courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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- Benjamin Franklin
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Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735
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The louder he talked of his honor
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the faster we counted our spoons.
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- R. W. Emerson
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The Conduct Of Life, VI, 1860
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The honor that is lost in a moment
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cannot be restored in a hundred years.
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- Italian Proverb
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to
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associate with honorable people.
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- Welsh Proverb
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"A man is the origin of his action"
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-Aristotle
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The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to
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attack the institutions of the country under
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the name of reform and to make war on the
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manners and customs of the people under the
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pretext of progress.
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- Benjamin Disraeli
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Speech In London
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June 24, 1872
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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The history of liberty is a history of limitations
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of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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- Woodrow Wilson
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Speech in New York
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Sept. 9, 1912
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The things required for prosperous labor,
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prosperous manufactures, and prosperous
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commerce are three. First, liberty; second,
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liberty; third, liberty.
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- H. W. Beecher
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Address at Liverpool
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Oct.16, 1863
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to
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surrender their liberty, are they thereafter
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any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite
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elect a man despot over them, do they remain
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free because the despotism was of their own
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making?
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- Herbert Spencer
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The New Toryism, 1884
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most
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men dread it.
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- George Bernard Shaw
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Maxims for Revolutions, 1903
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"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
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- A. Hitler
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
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alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety -
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by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of
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them imaginary."
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- H. L. Mencken
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I MAKE THE ENEMY SEE MY STRENGTHS AS WEAKNESSES AND MY
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WEAKNESSES AS STRENGTHS WHILE I CAUSE HIS STRENGTHS TO
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BECOME WEAKNESSES AND DISCOVER WHERE HE IS NOT STRONG..
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- Ho Yen-hsi
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WHEN THE WORLD IS AT PEACE, A GENTLEMAN KEEPS HIS SWORD
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BY HIS SIDE.
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- Ho Yen-hsi
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I BELIEVE...THAT EVERY HUMAN MIND FEELS PLEASURE
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IN DOING GOOD TO ANOTHER.
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- Thomas Jefferson
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Letter to John Adams, 1816
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IGNORANT ASSES VISITING STATIONERS' SHOPS, THEIR USE IS NOT
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TO INQUIRE FOR GOOD BOOKS, BUT NEW BOOKS.
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- John Webster
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The White Devil,pref.,c. 1608
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***
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"Books for general reading always smell badly;
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the odor of common people hangs about them."
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- F. W. Nietzsche
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Beyond Good And Evil, II, 1886
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"If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought
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to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder
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other officers from the like offences."
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- Lord Holt
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Judgement in Ashby vs. Aylesbury, 1702
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is
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necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the
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industrious."
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- Thomas Jefferson
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Letter to William Ludlow, 1824
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"Few people do business well who do nothing else."
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- Lord Chesterfield
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Letter to his son, Aug.7, 1749
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"What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings
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For equal division of unequal earnings.
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Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing,
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To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling."
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- Ebenezer Elliott
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Epigram, 1831
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***
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"The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry."
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- G.W. Gough
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The Economic Consequences of Socialism,
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I, 1926
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***
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"What's mine is my own; what's my brother's is
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his and mine."
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- Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732
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"Success or failure of endeavors to substitute sound
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ideas for unsound will depend ultimately on the abilities
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and the personalities of the men who seek to achieve this
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task. If the right men are lacking in the hour of decision,
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the fate of our civilization is sealed. Even if such pioneers
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are available, however, their efforts will be futile if they
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meet with indifference and apathy on the part of their fellow
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citizens. The survival of civilization can be jeopardized
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by the misdeeds of individual dictators, Fuhrers, or Duces.
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Its preservation, reconstruction and continuation, however,
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require the joint efforts of all men of good will."
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- Ludwig von Mises
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***
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"A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the
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upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide
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the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually
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by lot."
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- Plato
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The Republic, VIII
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c. 370 B.C.
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***
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"Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are
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equal in any respect they are equal in all repsects."
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- Aristotle
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Politics, V
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c. 322 B.C.
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***
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"A democracy is a government in the hands of men of
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low birth, no property, and vulgar employments."
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- Aristotle
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Rhetoric, I
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c. 322 B.C.
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***
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"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants."
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- Seneca
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Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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CIV, c. 63
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***
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"Democracy has two excesses to be wary of: the
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spirit of inequality, which leads it to aristocracy,
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and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads it to
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despotism."
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- C.L. Montesquieu
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The Spirit of the Laws, VIII
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***
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"If there were a nation of gods they would be governed
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democratically, but so perfect a government is not
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suitable to men."
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- J.-J. Rousseau
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Du contrat social, III
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1762
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***
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"All trust in constitutions is grounded on the
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assurance they may afford, not that the depositories
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of power will not, but that they cannot, misemploy it."
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- J.S. Mill
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Representative Government, VIII
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1861
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***
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"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the
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fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great
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impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with
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great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season
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have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you
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will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and
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ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and
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perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find
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your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."
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- Benjamin Disraeli
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Speech in the House of Commons
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March 31, 1850
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***
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"I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions
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as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as
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wisdom is rare and pride abundant."
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- H.F. Amiel
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Journal, June 12, 1871
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***
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"To put political power in the hands of men embittered and
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degraded by poverty is to tie firebrands to foxes andturn
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them loose amid the standing corn."
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- Henry George
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Progress and Poverty, X
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1879
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***
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
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by the people for the people."
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- Oscar Wilde
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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1891
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***
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"The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity,
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but the triumph of bad quality."
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- Guido De Ruggiero
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The History of European Liberalism
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II, 1927
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***
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"The Democratic party is like a man riding backward in a
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carriage. It never sees a thing until it has gone by."
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- Benjamin F. Butler
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c. 1870
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***
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre,
|
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for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is
|
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usually bad."
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- F.W. Nietzsche
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Human All-too-Human, I
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1878
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***
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"The important thing is not so much that every child should
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be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to
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learn."
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- John Lubbock (Lord Avebury)
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The Pleasures of Life, X
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1887
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***
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"The only stable state is the one in which all men are
|
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equal before the law."
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- Aristotle
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Politics, V
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c. 322 B.C.
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***
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"Men are entitled to equal rights - but to equal rights
|
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to unequal things."
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- Charles James Fox
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(1749-1806)
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***
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"None can love freedom heartily but good men;
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the rest love not freedom, but license."
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- John Milton
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The Tenure of Kings and
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Magistrates
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1649
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***
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"Real freedom means good wages, short hours, security
|
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in employment, good homes, opportunity for leisure and
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recreation with family and friends."
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- Oswald Mosely
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Fascism, 1936
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(Freedom as defined by Fascism...
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sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?)
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***
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"A good government produces citizens distinguished for
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courage, love of justice, and every other good quality;
|
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a bad government makes them cowardly, rapacious, and the
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slaves of every foul desire."
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- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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Antiquities of Rome, II
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c. 20 B.C.
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***
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"Let no wise man estrange himself from the government of
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the state; for it is both wicked to withdraw from being
|
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useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the
|
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worthless."
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- Epictetus
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Encheiridion
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c. 110
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***
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"I will govern according to the common weal,
|
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but not according to the common will."
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- James I of England
|
|
Reply to the House of Commons
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|
1621
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***
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"There are very few so foolish that they had not rather
|
|
govern themselves than be governed by others."
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- Thomas Hobbes
|
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Leviathan, I
|
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1651
|
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(Wanna bet?)
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***
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|
"The deterioration of every government begins with the
|
|
decay of the principles on which it was founded."
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- C.L. De Montesquieu
|
|
The Spirit of the Laws, VIII
|
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|
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***
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|
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|
"Government originated in the attempt to find a form of
|
|
association that defends and protects the person and
|
|
property of each with the common force of all."
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|
|
- J.-J. Rousseau
|
|
Du contrat social, I
|
|
1761
|
|
|
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***
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|
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government,
|
|
even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its
|
|
worst state an intolerable one."
|
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|
|
- Thomas Paine
|
|
Common Sense
|
|
1776
|
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***
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men
|
|
over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first
|
|
enable the government to control the governed, and in the
|
|
next place, oblige it to control itself."
|
|
|
|
- Alexander Hamilton
|
|
The Federalist
|
|
Feb.8, 1788
|
|
|
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***
|
|
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|
"The cost of government will continue to increase, I care
|
|
not what party is in power."
|
|
|
|
- Reed Smoot
|
|
Speech in the Senate
|
|
1925
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate
|
|
evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for
|
|
fairly respectable people except annoy them."
|
|
|
|
- E.W. Howe
|
|
Notes for My Biographer
|
|
1926
|
|
|
|
***
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|
|
|
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect
|
|
liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
|
|
|
|
- Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis
|
|
Opinion in Olmstead vs. U.S., 1928
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Today the nations of the world may be divided into two
|
|
classes - the nations in which the government fears the
|
|
people, and the nations in which the people fear the
|
|
government."
|
|
|
|
- Amos R. E. Pinochet
|
|
Open Letter
|
|
April 16, 1935
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy."
|
|
|
|
- Albanian Proverb
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that
|
|
men may be trusted to govern themselves WITHOUT A MASTER."
|
|
[Emphasis mine]
|
|
|
|
- Thomas Jefferson
|
|
Letter to David Hartley
|
|
1787
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man
|
|
picked out of ten thousand."
|
|
|
|
- Shakespeare
|
|
Hamlet, II
|
|
c. 1601
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"In the frame of a capitalistic society the accumulation
|
|
of additional capital by those who succeeded in utilizing
|
|
their funds for the best possible provision of the consumers
|
|
enriches not only the owners but all of the people, on the
|
|
one hand by raising the marginal productivity of labor and
|
|
thereby wages, and on the other hand by increasing the quantity
|
|
of goods produced and brought to the market. The peoples of
|
|
the economically backward countries are poorer than the
|
|
Americans because their countries lack a sufficient number of
|
|
successful capitalists and entrepreneurs."
|
|
|
|
- Ludwig von Mises
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Statism postulates the doctrine that the citizen has no
|
|
rights which the State is bound to respect; the only rights
|
|
he has are those which the State grants him, and which the
|
|
State may attenuate or revoke at its own pleasure. This
|
|
doctrine is fundamental; without its support, all the various
|
|
nominal modes or forms of Statism which we see at large in
|
|
Europe and America - such as are called Socialism, Communism,
|
|
Nazism, Fascism, etc., - would collapse at once. The
|
|
individualism which was professed by the early Liberals,
|
|
maintained the contrary; it maintained that the citizen has
|
|
rights which are inviolable by the State or by any other agency."
|
|
|
|
- Albert J. Nock
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The measures of the welfare state are means for redistributing
|
|
the wealth. The recipients may be the aged who receive Medicare,
|
|
foreign nations who are given tractors and money in foreign aid,
|
|
urban dwellers for whom new houses are built, farmers who sell
|
|
their grain to the government at a subsidized price, private or
|
|
government school beneficiaries of state and Federal grants,
|
|
children who receive free or subsidized lunches, or those businesses
|
|
whose projects are government financed. Whatever the means of
|
|
redistribution may be, the recipient receives what has been seized
|
|
by violence in taxes collected from others. He receives the fruits
|
|
of legal plunder."
|
|
|
|
- Francis E. Mahaffy
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Inflation is one of the most important, yet least understood,
|
|
issues of our day. Contrary to what we might be led to believe
|
|
by the news media and some high economic advisors, inflation is
|
|
not a rise in the general level of prices (often referred to as
|
|
an increase in the cost of living). Inflation is simply an
|
|
increase in the supply of money. This increase in the number of
|
|
dollars in relation to the goods and services that are put up for
|
|
sale causes people to bid up prices. Thus, a general rise in prices
|
|
is the effect of inflation. More dollars is the underlying cause
|
|
of the higher prices."
|
|
|
|
- Tom Rose
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"This year will go down in history. For the first time,
|
|
a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets
|
|
will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will
|
|
follow our lead into the future!"
|
|
|
|
- Adolph Hitler, 1935
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
|
|
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
|
|
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
|
|
the Bible."
|
|
|
|
- George Washington
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it
|
|
connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil
|
|
government with the principles of Christianity."
|
|
|
|
- John Quincy Adams
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
|
|
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
|
|
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!"
|
|
|
|
- Patrick Henry
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"We have staked the future of all of our political institutions
|
|
upon the capacity of each and all of us to sustain ourselves
|
|
according to the Ten Commandments of God."
|
|
|
|
- James Madison
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
|
|
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
|
|
|
|
- John Adams
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures
|
|
ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
|
|
All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition,
|
|
injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their
|
|
dispising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
|
|
|
|
- Noah Webster
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be
|
|
read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools?
|
|
Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned
|
|
so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?"
|
|
|
|
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1844
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Things that are bad for business are bad for people
|
|
who work for business."
|
|
|
|
- Thomas E. Dewey
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
|
|
in a state of civilization,
|
|
it expects what never was and never will be."
|
|
|
|
- Thomas Jefferson
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The history of liberty is a history of the limitations
|
|
of governmental power, not the increase of it."
|
|
|
|
- Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored
|
|
by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default,
|
|
it can never be recovered."
|
|
|
|
- Dorothy Thompson
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
|
|
|
|
- John Philpot Curran
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish."
|
|
(Don't overdo it).
|
|
|
|
- Lao-Tze
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"What is the best government?
|
|
|
|
That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
|
|
|
|
- Goethe
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,
|
|
ever afterward resumes its liberty."
|
|
|
|
- Walt Whitman
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Very few established institutions, governments and
|
|
constitutions...are ever destroyed by their enemies
|
|
until they have been corrupted and weakened by their
|
|
friends."
|
|
|
|
- Walter Lippmann
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The office of government is not to confer happiness,
|
|
but to give man opportunity to work out happiness for
|
|
themselves."
|
|
|
|
- William Ellery Channing
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse."
|
|
|
|
- Edmund Burke
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy,
|
|
is government."
|
|
|
|
- Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom,
|
|
and defended it as they ought."
|
|
|
|
- John Quincy Adams
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who
|
|
is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the
|
|
prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes
|
|
to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest,
|
|
insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to
|
|
change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to
|
|
spread discontent among those who are."
|
|
|
|
- H.L. Mencken
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil
|
|
the harmony of the collective society which is coming
|
|
where everyone is interdependent."
|
|
|
|
- John Dewey
|
|
1899
|
|
Our "father" of education..
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"...our shools have been scientifically designed
|
|
to prevent overeducation from happening."
|
|
|
|
- William Troy Harris, 1899
|
|
U.S. Commissioner of Education
|
|
1889-1906
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE THERE IS LIBERTY;
|
|
WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY"
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The
|
|
strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep
|
|
and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves
|
|
against tyranny in government."
|
|
|
|
-Thomas Jefferson
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize
|
|
congress to prevent the people of the United States who are
|
|
peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
|
|
|
|
- Sam Adams
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who
|
|
is able may have a gun."
|
|
|
|
-Patrick Henry
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Americans need never fear their government because of the
|
|
advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over
|
|
the people of almost every other nation."
|
|
|
|
-James Madison
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"..one of the basic conditions of the victory is socialism is
|
|
the arming of the workers (communist) and the disarming of the
|
|
bourgeoisie (the middle class)."
|
|
|
|
-Vladimir I. Lenin
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship
|
|
which enjoys a monopoly over weapons, and communications,...
|
|
is simply not a possibility in the modern age."
|
|
|
|
-George Keenan (1964)
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved
|
|
and opposed subjects."
|
|
|
|
-Leo Tolstoy (1893)
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should
|
|
move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other
|
|
than the police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols
|
|
and revolvers...no one should have a right to anonymous
|
|
ownership or use of a gun."
|
|
|
|
-Professor Dean Morris
|
|
(director, LEAA)
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good. If it
|
|
refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
|
|
|
|
-JOSEF STALIN
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As
|
|
long as they keep their guns in their hands, what's happened
|
|
here will never happen there."
|
|
|
|
-A dying Chinese Citizen shot at
|
|
Beijing, Red China
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"My vision of a NEW WORLD ORDER foresees a United Nations
|
|
with a revitalized peacekeeping function."
|
|
|
|
-George Bush
|
|
New York, 1991
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"It is the SACRED principles enshrined in the U.N. charter to
|
|
which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance."
|
|
|
|
-UN building, Feb 1, 1992.
|
|
spoken by George Bush
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all History.
|
|
It's purpose is to distroy the United States."
|
|
|
|
- John E. Rankin
|
|
U.S. Congressman
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more
|
|
controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite,
|
|
unrestrained by traditional values."
|
|
|
|
-Zbigniew Brezinsky
|
|
National advisor to Jimmy Carter
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance
|
|
over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing
|
|
even the most personal information about the citizen. These files
|
|
will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities"
|
|
|
|
-Zbigniew Brezinsky
|
|
National Advisor to Jimmy Carter
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
Hiding behind a mask of official righteousness, this
|
|
secret combination seeks to impose it's own concept of
|
|
geopolitical navigation, nullifying liberty as the hard-won
|
|
birthright of all Americans."
|
|
|
|
-Lt. Col. James "Bo" Gritz (ret)
|
|
U.S. Presidential Candidate, 1992
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
Baden Baden, Germany, 1991, Said: "We are grateful to the
|
|
Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other
|
|
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings
|
|
and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty
|
|
years."
|
|
|
|
-David Rockefeller
|
|
World Order Godfather
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
Rowan Gaither stated to Congressional Reese Commission
|
|
investigator Norman Dodd: "We operate here under directives
|
|
which emulate from the White House... The substance of the
|
|
directives under which we operate is that we shall use our
|
|
grant making power to alter life in the United States so that
|
|
we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union."(Ike was
|
|
president at the time.)
|
|
|
|
-Rowan Gaither
|
|
President, Ford Foundation,1954
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
Peter Hoagland, Nebraska State Senator and Humanist said in
|
|
1983: "Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the
|
|
right to indoctrinate their children in their religious
|
|
beliefs, because we, the state, are preparing them for the
|
|
year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global
|
|
society and their children will not fit in."
|
|
|
|
-Peter Hoagland
|
|
Nebraska State Senator
|
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise
|
|
power from behind the scenes."
|
|
|
|
-Justce Felix Frankfurter
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, in a letter written
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Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House, Roosevelt states:
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"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a
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financial element in the large centers has owned the
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government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
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-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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U.S. President
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"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood
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what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would
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move on Washington; they would not wait for an election...
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It adds up to a preconceived plan to distroy the economic and
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social independence of the United States!"
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-George W. Malone
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U.S. Senator(Nevada) 1957
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Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company, commented on the
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privately owned "Federal" Reserve System scam: "It is well
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enough that people of the nation do not understand our
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banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there
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would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
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-Henry Ford
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Founder, Ford Motor Co.
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"I consider it my duty to tell you of the extremely dangerous
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threats that lie ahead. I KNOW FOR CERTAIN that we are now in a
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period of the greatest strategic deception, perhaps in all history...
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The Cold War is NOT over, only in the state of remission...
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The Soviet Union is not truly 'on the verge of collapse'.
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Western Defense, on the other hand, is."
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-General Sir Walter Walker
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Former NATO Commander-in-Chief
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"Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear
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about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years.
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These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no
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significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for
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cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans, and
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let them fall asleep."
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-Mikhail Gorbachev (1987)
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"..then, there will come a peace across the earth."
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-Joseph Stalin
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(after Global Communism)
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"..the meaning of peace is the absence of
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the opposition to Socialism."
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-Karl Marx
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"No one will enter the New World Order, unless he or she will
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make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age
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unless he will take a Luciferian Initation."
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-David Spangler
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Director, Planetary Initiative
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(a U.N. Group)
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"The Roman government gave them bread and circuses.
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Today we give them bread and elections..."
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- Will Durant
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Public Servant:
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Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
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- Mark Twain
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"Very few established institutions, governments and consitutions...
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are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted
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and weakened by their friends."
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- Walter Lippman
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A lot of people still have the first dollar they ever made --
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Uncle Sam has all the others."
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We rate ability in men by what they finish,
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not by what they attempt.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
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compared to what lies within us.
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It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands
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and started ringing our congressmen.
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Your creed may be interesting but your deeds are much
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more convincing.
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
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"Congress, simply by requiring businesses to provide some
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employee benefit, gets businesses to cough up millions of
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dollars that have the illusion of not being taxes."
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- John Perkins
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The true object of education should be to train one to
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think clearly and act rightly.
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WE MAKE OUR FUTURE BY THE BEST USE OF THE PRESENT.
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We've now switched from the New Deal, Fair Deal,
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and Square Deal to the Ordeal.
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SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM WITHOUT THE FIRING SQUAD.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
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a man's character give him power.
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In times of prosperity men ask too little of God.
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In times of adversity, they ask too much.
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Ambition in America is still rewarded -- with high taxes.
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Never in the history of America have so few
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loused up so much
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for so many.
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Those who are rooting up the tree of liberty will certainly
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be crushed by its fall.
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"Countries are not cultivated in proportion
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to their fertility, but to their liberty."
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- Montesquieu
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"Liberty has never come from the government."
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- Woodrow Wilson
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"...there will never be a really free and
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enlightened state until the state comes to
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recognize the individual as a higher and
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independent power, from which all its power
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and authority was derived, and treats him
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accordingly."
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- Thoreau
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"This nation couldn't move toward socialism
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if its Congressional leaders didn't believe
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in it."
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- John Perkins
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One way to reduce taxes is to hold elections
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every year because there never seem to be tax
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increases in an election year.
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It shouldn't be difficult to make an honest
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living in politics - there doesn't seem to
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be too much competition.
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Nothing is politically right...
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when it is morally wrong.
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Politics is the art of obtaining money from the
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rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of
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protecting each from the other.
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"If our founding fathers were alive today
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they'd roll over in their graves."
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- Eisenhower
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It's hard to believe that America was founded
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to avoid high taxes.
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American's are a religious people.
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You can tell they trust in God by the way they vote!
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"There is no room in this country for
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hyphenated Americanism."
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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"There was a time, not long ago, when vulgarity
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was almost universally viewed as objectionable
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in our society. Now what is vulgar is vogue."
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- John Perkins
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Income-tax forms should be more realistic by
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allowing the taxpayer to list Uncle Sam as
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a dependent.
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No man is better than his principles.
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A man's country is not just a certain area of land.
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It is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to
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the principle.
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No man is free who depends on his government
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for his sustenance, job, home or hope.
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"Can you imagine Moses asking Congress to pass
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the Ten Commandments."
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- John Perkins
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We may rest assured that freedom is worth
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whatever it costs.
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No constitution, no court, no law can save liberty
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when it dies in the hearts and minds of men and
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women.
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Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned
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would rule out the sun and the moon --
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and a mother's love.
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We're becoming different by becoming indifferent.
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- John Perkins
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The evidence of corruption and scandal gets less
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flak than the suspicion of freedom and morality.
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- John Perkins
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The United States Supreme Court has handed down
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the eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not, in
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any classroom, read the first ten."
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"Our Founding Fathers believed devoutely that there
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was a God and that the inalienable rights of man were
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rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor
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in any other human power - but in God alone."
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- Tom Clark
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Associate Justice of the
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U.S. Supreme Court
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Too often, liberty is not appreciated
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until it is taken away.
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The government is concerned about the population
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explosion, and the population is concerned about
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the government explosion.
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Capital punishment is when Washington comes up
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with a new tax.
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Compromise is always wrong when it means
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sacrificing a principle.
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Reputation is precious, but character is priceless.
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You can lead a man to Congress
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but you can't make him think.
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One of the disadvantages of a democracy is the
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minority has the say and the majority has to pay.
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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
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purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
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Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what
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course others may take; but as for me, give me
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liberty or give me death!"
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- Patrick Henry
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Our congress is continually appointing "fact-
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finding" committees when what they really need
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are some "fact-facing" committees.
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Government machinery has been described as a
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marvelous labor saving device which enables
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ten men to do the work of one.
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Re: Clinton
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I wouldn't exactly call him a liar.
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Let's just say that he lives on the wrong side
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of the facts.
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Giving help to the enemy used to be called treason.
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Now it is called "foreign aid."
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Its getting harder and harder to support the
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government in the style to which it has become
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accustomed.
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"Truth is God's daughter."
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- Spanish Proverb
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"He who conceals a useful truth is equally
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guilty with the propagator of an injurious
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falsehood."
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- Augustine
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***
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"Politics would be a helluva good business
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if it weren't for the goddamned people."
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- Richard M. Nixon
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"Who's in or out, who moves the grand
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machine,
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Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen;
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Secrets of state no more I wish to know
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Than secret movements of a puppet-show;
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Let but the puppets move, I've my desire,
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Unseen the hand which guides the master
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wire."
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- Churchill
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In concern for his sons, John Adams advised his wife
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Abigail to:
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LET THEM REVERE NOTHING BUT RELIGION, MORALITY AND LIBERTY.
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending
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with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
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Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the
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strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through
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a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
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religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
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government of any other.
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- John Adams, Oct.11, 1798
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Address to the military
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