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re: MAGMA - Warning from Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:31 pm to genro
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:31 pm to genro
(cont p14)
"There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry." - Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during Reagan Administration
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - FA Hayek
"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence." - Ron Paul
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force." - Dick Cheney
"Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." - Adolph Hitler
"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." - Dick Cheney
"No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies." - Salvador de Madariaga
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure." - Abraham Lincoln
"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none." - Gutle Schnaper, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington
"In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy." - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in their book The Final Days
"I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately." - Barack Obama - Promise made during 2008 campaign speech
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama, October 27, 2007
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry." - Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during Reagan Administration
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - FA Hayek
"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence." - Ron Paul
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force." - Dick Cheney
"Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." - Adolph Hitler
"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." - Dick Cheney
"No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies." - Salvador de Madariaga
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure." - Abraham Lincoln
"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none." - Gutle Schnaper, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington
"In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy." - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in their book The Final Days
"I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately." - Barack Obama - Promise made during 2008 campaign speech
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama, October 27, 2007
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:32 pm to genro
(cont. p15)
"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures." - Ron Paul
"America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist." - Ron Paul
“He who marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” - Albert Einstein
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." - Edward Abbey
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." - Albert Einstein
"Belief means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken
"We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free." - Karl Hess
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" - Samuel Adams
"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." - Thomas Jefferson
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." - Janet Reno
"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun....And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." - Michael Gartner, former President of NBC News
"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression." - James Madison
"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans... and so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities." - Bill Clinton
"A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin - When asked by a woman while he was leaving the Constitutional Convention what kind of government they had given us.
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures." - Ron Paul
"America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist." - Ron Paul
“He who marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” - Albert Einstein
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." - Edward Abbey
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." - Albert Einstein
"Belief means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken
"We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free." - Karl Hess
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" - Samuel Adams
"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." - Thomas Jefferson
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." - Janet Reno
"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun....And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." - Michael Gartner, former President of NBC News
"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression." - James Madison
"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans... and so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities." - Bill Clinton
"A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin - When asked by a woman while he was leaving the Constitutional Convention what kind of government they had given us.
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:32 pm to genro
(cont. p16)
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." - Daniel Webster
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry
"The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong." - L. A. Powe, Jr. Centennial Professor of Law at The University of Texas
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other." - George Washington
“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” - Alexander Hamilton
"[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.” - Congressman Fisher Ames
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” - from the US Constitution
"I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the Republic, for which it stands." - from the Pledge of Allegiance
“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term ‘democracy’ even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to ‘democracy’ only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.” - Clarence Manion - Dean of Notre Dame Law School 1950's
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” - John Marshall - US Supreme Court Chief Justice
"In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." - Ron Paul
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." - Aristotle
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos." - Polybius 200-118 BCE
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson
"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them." - Lysander Spooner
"When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated." - H. L. Richardson
“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.” - Fisher Ames
"Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism." - Fisher Ames
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” - Oscar Wilde
"Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians." - Benjamin Disraeli
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams
“The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” - Lord Acton
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." - Daniel Webster
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry
"The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong." - L. A. Powe, Jr. Centennial Professor of Law at The University of Texas
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other." - George Washington
“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” - Alexander Hamilton
"[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.” - Congressman Fisher Ames
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” - from the US Constitution
"I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the Republic, for which it stands." - from the Pledge of Allegiance
“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term ‘democracy’ even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to ‘democracy’ only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.” - Clarence Manion - Dean of Notre Dame Law School 1950's
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” - John Marshall - US Supreme Court Chief Justice
"In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." - Ron Paul
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." - Aristotle
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos." - Polybius 200-118 BCE
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson
"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them." - Lysander Spooner
"When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated." - H. L. Richardson
“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.” - Fisher Ames
"Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism." - Fisher Ames
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” - Oscar Wilde
"Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians." - Benjamin Disraeli
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams
“The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” - Lord Acton
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:33 pm to genro
(cont. p17)
"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." - Elbridge Gerry - Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.” - Alexander Hamilton
"The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative." - Henry Grady Weaver
“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison
“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” - James Russell Lowell
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln
“Democracy passes into despotism.” - Plato
“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” - Plato
"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants." - Seneca
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Philosopher and Author
“to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy....” - Edmund Randolph - participant in Contstitutional Convention
“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.” - Thomas Babington Macaulay
"The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern." - John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman, US Senator from South Carolina
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler
"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation." - Karl Marx
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler
"Democracy - A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct expression.” Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights. Attitude of the law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. [the framers of the Constitution] made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy … and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had formed a republic.” - US Army Training Manual 1928
“Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our Government will be organized and run....” - US Army Training Manual 1952
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.” - G.K. Chesterton
“Democracy is the road to socialism.” - Karl Marx
"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." - Elbridge Gerry - Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.” - Alexander Hamilton
"The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative." - Henry Grady Weaver
“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison
“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” - James Russell Lowell
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln
“Democracy passes into despotism.” - Plato
“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” - Plato
"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants." - Seneca
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Philosopher and Author
“to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy....” - Edmund Randolph - participant in Contstitutional Convention
“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.” - Thomas Babington Macaulay
"The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern." - John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman, US Senator from South Carolina
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler
"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation." - Karl Marx
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler
"Democracy - A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct expression.” Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights. Attitude of the law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. [the framers of the Constitution] made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy … and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had formed a republic.” - US Army Training Manual 1928
“Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our Government will be organized and run....” - US Army Training Manual 1952
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.” - G.K. Chesterton
“Democracy is the road to socialism.” - Karl Marx
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:33 pm to genro
(cont. p18)
“The first step in the revolution by the working class to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, is to win the battle of democracy.” - Karl Marx
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism." - Vladimir Lenin
"The goal of socialism is communism." - Vladimir Lenin
“Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.” - Mao Tse-tung
"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." - David Rockefeller
"World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries … [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state." - Josef Stalin
“...to make the world safe for democracy.” - Woodrow Wilson
“[America] must be the great arsenal of democracy.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity." - Jimmy Carter
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan
"Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy." - George Bush Sr.
"We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria." - Bill Clinton
"We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade." - Bill Clinton
"And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000." - Bill Clinton
"As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world -- and I can assure you more are on the way." - George W. Bush
"It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy." - George W. Bush
"We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." - George W. Bush
"Our aim is a democratic peace." - George W. Bush
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” - Karl Marx
"I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years." - Mike Huckabee
"Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East...." - Mike Huckabee
“That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.” - John McCain
“But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy..." - John McCain
"There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country." - Hillary Clinton
"We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable." - Hillary Clinton
"I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy." - Hillary Clinton
"We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force." - Barack Obama
“The first step in the revolution by the working class to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, is to win the battle of democracy.” - Karl Marx
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism." - Vladimir Lenin
"The goal of socialism is communism." - Vladimir Lenin
“Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.” - Mao Tse-tung
"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." - David Rockefeller
"World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries … [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state." - Josef Stalin
“...to make the world safe for democracy.” - Woodrow Wilson
“[America] must be the great arsenal of democracy.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity." - Jimmy Carter
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan
"Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy." - George Bush Sr.
"We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria." - Bill Clinton
"We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade." - Bill Clinton
"And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000." - Bill Clinton
"As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world -- and I can assure you more are on the way." - George W. Bush
"It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy." - George W. Bush
"We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." - George W. Bush
"Our aim is a democratic peace." - George W. Bush
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” - Karl Marx
"I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years." - Mike Huckabee
"Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East...." - Mike Huckabee
“That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.” - John McCain
“But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy..." - John McCain
"There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country." - Hillary Clinton
"We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable." - Hillary Clinton
"I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy." - Hillary Clinton
"We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force." - Barack Obama
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:33 pm to genro
(cont. p19)
"This doesn’t mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it’s in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal." - Barack Obama
"The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all." - Nelson Mandela
“In October 1917 we parted with the Old World, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." - Mikhail Gorbachev
“according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.” - Mikhail Gorbachev
"Every part of our program of perestroika -- and the program as a whole, for that matter -- is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States." - George Bush Sr.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Presidential Candidate
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." - Nikita Khrushchev 1959
"This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered." - Kenneth Goff, Author and a one time dues-paying member of the Communist Party
"Socialism in America will come through the ballot box." - Gus Hall (1910-2000) leader of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate
"If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite." - Gary Allen
"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire." - Winston Churchill 1922
"The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes." - Vladimir Lenin
"Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship." - W. Cleon Skousen
"There also exists another alliance -- at first glance a strange one, a surprising one -- but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"This doesn’t mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it’s in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal." - Barack Obama
"The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all." - Nelson Mandela
“In October 1917 we parted with the Old World, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." - Mikhail Gorbachev
“according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.” - Mikhail Gorbachev
"Every part of our program of perestroika -- and the program as a whole, for that matter -- is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States." - George Bush Sr.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Presidential Candidate
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." - Nikita Khrushchev 1959
"This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered." - Kenneth Goff, Author and a one time dues-paying member of the Communist Party
"Socialism in America will come through the ballot box." - Gus Hall (1910-2000) leader of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate
"If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite." - Gary Allen
"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire." - Winston Churchill 1922
"The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes." - Vladimir Lenin
"Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship." - W. Cleon Skousen
"There also exists another alliance -- at first glance a strange one, a surprising one -- but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:34 pm to genro
(cont. p20)
"I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world." - General Colin Powell
"In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million." - Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." - Bill Clinton
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger
"Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything." - Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” - George W. Bush
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - George W. Bush
"...if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Sr. - speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992
"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."- Harry S. Truman
"In war, truth is the first casualty." - Aeschylus
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
"It is the first responsiblity of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin
"The important thing is never to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Ron Paul
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt." - Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi
"They must find it difficult......those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." - Gerald Massey
"This much is true: you have been lied to." - Ron Paul
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." - Ayn Rand
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” - Winston Churchill
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley
"I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world." - General Colin Powell
"In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million." - Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." - Bill Clinton
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger
"Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything." - Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” - George W. Bush
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - George W. Bush
"...if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Sr. - speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992
"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."- Harry S. Truman
"In war, truth is the first casualty." - Aeschylus
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
"It is the first responsiblity of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin
"The important thing is never to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Ron Paul
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt." - Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi
"They must find it difficult......those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." - Gerald Massey
"This much is true: you have been lied to." - Ron Paul
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." - Ayn Rand
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” - Winston Churchill
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:34 pm to genro
(cont. last page, i'm out of breath)
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." - Aldous Huxley
"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." - Dr. Jose Delgado (1915-) Spanish professor of physiology, Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale Medical School, famed for his research into mind control through electrical stimulation of regions in the brain
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that." - John Lennon
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." - Dresden James
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim." - Ayn Rand
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey
"[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power -- and even the duty -- to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority." - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Professor of Law - University of Tennessee
“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” - Samuel Adams
"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau
"That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.” - John F. Kennedy
"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau
"An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government." - Ron Paul
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." - Alexander Hamilton
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
“Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act.” - Albert Einstein
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." - Aldous Huxley
"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." - Dr. Jose Delgado (1915-) Spanish professor of physiology, Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale Medical School, famed for his research into mind control through electrical stimulation of regions in the brain
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that." - John Lennon
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." - Dresden James
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim." - Ayn Rand
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey
"[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power -- and even the duty -- to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority." - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Professor of Law - University of Tennessee
“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” - Samuel Adams
"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau
"That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.” - John F. Kennedy
"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau
"An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government." - Ron Paul
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." - Alexander Hamilton
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
“Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act.” - Albert Einstein
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Hey genro TL;DR
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:44 pm to genro
quote:
"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises." - Abraham Lincoln
This statement should be the definition of irony.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 5:25 pm to scrooster
quote:
Which is exactly why they are winning.
Who's 'they', in this context?
Posted on 3/25/15 at 5:28 pm to hipgnosis
quote:
Who's 'they', in this context?
Them.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 6:29 pm to genro
Some incredible things said. Thanks for that
Posted on 3/25/15 at 7:19 pm to genro
I'm ready to listen to some Rage Against the Machine.
Testify.
LINK
Testify.
LINK
quote:
The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
Ones who travel now in coffins
On the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside our door
Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside our door
Now testify
Yes testify
It's right outside our door
With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me
So I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball rushing
Witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door
Now testify
Yeah testify
It's right outside our door
Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside our door
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
Testify
It's right outside our door
Now testify
Testify
It's right outside our door
Posted on 3/25/15 at 7:24 pm to deeprig9
Holy shite. I was just thinking of posting some song lyrics. Here's my contribution. I think we all know the song.
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want?
I want to change
And what have you got, when you feel the same?
Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son, yeah.
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was the only son for you
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
And someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son for you
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want?
I want to change
And what have you got, when you feel the same?
Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son, yeah.
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was the only son for you
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
And someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son for you
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
This post was edited on 3/25/15 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 3/25/15 at 7:28 pm to genro
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care where they may go
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah!
Jesus, he's my friend
I said Jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand
He let me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend!
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care where they may go
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah!
Jesus, he's my friend
I said Jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand
He let me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend!
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Posted on 3/25/15 at 7:30 pm to KSGamecock
You act like you're not wise, but I think you are
Of course I'm not wise tho
Of course I'm not wise tho
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