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"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd,

but see not there the worse form of slavery,

which is when the herd crushes out the man. "



-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

(1900-1944)

Source: Citadelle, 1948



"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. "



-- Herman Hesse

(1877-1962)

Source: Reflections



"The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

To be your own man is hard business.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.

But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. "



-- Rudyard Kipling

(1865-1936)



"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present

generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of

it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the

pains to preserve it. "

- John Adams



"This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from

principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third;

and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of

misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...

And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation

follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression. "

- Thomas Jefferson



"The issues can be stated very briefly:

Who will be controlled?

Who will exercise control?

What type of control will be exercised?

Most important of all, toward what end or purpose,

or in the pursuit of what value, will control be exercised?"



-- Carl Rogers

(1902-1987)



"Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. "



-- Helen Keller

(1880-1968) Blind-Deaf Author

Source: The Open Door, 1957



"Laws control the lesser man.

Right conduct controls the greater one. "



-- Chinese Proverb



"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. " -- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790.



"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. " --Herbert Hoover



"Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism -- free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes the limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. ... In question 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, The Kentucky Resolution [November 16, 1798]



"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. "



-- Carl Schurz

(1829-1906) German-born, US General, US Senator (MO), Founded the Liberal Republican movement



"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. "



-- Edmund Burke

(1729 - 1797)



"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. " -- Albert Einstein



"All servitude is voluntary and the slave is more despicable than the tyrant is hateful. " -- Goliath, or the March of Fascism -- G. A. Borgese, 1937



All too many Americans subscribe to this famous statement -- "Make us your slaves but feed us. " -- Brothers Karamasov -- Dostoevsky



"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. "

James Dale Davidson, author of The Sovereign Individual



"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one

person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more

justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the

power, would be justified in silencing mankind. " --John Stuart Mill



"Finally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seed thrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry. "



Benjamim Franklin 1769



"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?" --Matthew 20:15



"When truth is lost, freedom is lost, because, when you do not have true information to base your decisions on, you essentially lose the freedom to make your own, effective, decisions. " - Dr. Walter Belford



"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in a society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it. "

- Frederic Bastiat



"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of

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



"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. " - Albert Einstein



"Of all the things that can be forced upon men; freedom cannot; this each man must take for himself. Freedom being the most precious of commodities; it is not obtained at bargain prices; it is costly; and by Heaven rightfully so. Honor, courage, sacrifice, and vigilance are the coin by which freedom is obtained. A day gone without payment rendered – is a day without freedom. " - Thomas John Clark



"All law is the protection of property rights, all else is policy. " - Ganaposki's Axiom



"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. " – John Hay



"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. " - Bertrand Russell



"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed. " - Thomas Jefferson



"Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic, but will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. ” - Thomas Jefferson



“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ” - Thomas Jefferson



"Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. " - Thomas Paine



“It has ever been the scheme of government to keep the people ignorant of their rights. ” - Thomas Paine



"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it. " - Thomas Paine, Rights of Man



“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ” -Thomas Paine



"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. " - James Madison



“It will be of little avail to people that the laws are made by people of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be understood; or if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated or undergo such incessant changes that no man knows what it will be tomorrow... frequent changes give an unreasonable advantage to the sagacious, enterprising and moneyed few, over the industrious and uninformed mass of the people. ” - James Madison



"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. " - Daniel Webster



“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of the executive power. ” - Daniel Webster



"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. " - Learned Hand



“The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. ” - John Adams



"Men think in herds, go mad in herds, but recover their senses, one by one. " - Charles Mackay



"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void. " - Marbury v. Madison, 5 U. S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803)



"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. " - U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson



"There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action. ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



“None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. ” - John Milton



"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself. ” - Rousseau



"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. " - John F. Kennedy



"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hand which feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. " - Samuel Adams



"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. " - Winston Churchill



"Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded. " - Karl Marx



“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. ” -Tryon Edwards



“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves" - Lord Byron



"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened. " - Winston Churchill



"Stranger, tell the Spartans that we lie here obedient to their word. The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. " – Thucydides
 
Evil Quotes



"What matters is not the reality of bias or prejudice but its appearance. " --Antonin Scalia, 1994



"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths... ? It's not revelant. Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" --former first lady Barbara Bush, referring to banning the media from access to inbound dead US troops from Iraq



"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland. " --Adolf Hitler, on the creation of the Gestapo [1922] and the hero of the fresh batch of Nazis we have...



"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages... will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests. " - Rothschild Brothers of London communiqué to associates in New York June 25, 1863



"The framers of the U. S. constitution have simply been too shrewd for us. The have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages, frail bridges, tinkering. If we are to 'turn the Founders upside down' -- we must directly confront the constitutional structure they erected. " --James McGregor Burns



"The case for government by elites is irrefutable...government by the people is possible but highly improbable. " --1963 - J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee speaks at a symposium sponsored by the Fund for the Republic, a project of the Ford Foundation.



1992 -- The Twilight of Sovereignty by CFR member (and former Citicorp Chairman) Walter Wriston is published, in which he claims:

"A truly global economy will require ...compromises of national sovereignty... There is no escaping the system. "



"the sparing of civilian lives cannot be the total war's first priority... The purpose of total war is to permanently force your will onto another people. " --neoCON author Michael Ledeen



"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest

or consent. " --James Warburg



"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. " --Strobe Talbot, Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992



"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather

than from the top down... but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault. " --CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.



"One death is a tragedy. Ten thousand deaths is a statistic. " --Joseph 'Uncle Joe' Stalin



"Food is Power! We use it to control behavior. Some may call it bribery. We do not apologize. " -- Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, former U. S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, speaking at the UN World Food Summit, Nov 1996
 
Trust me - I know what I am doing.



I don't watch the news - I make it.



So whats the problem



Doreau, that was excessvely violent and completely unnecessary, I love it.



Sledge Hammer
 
Lol

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who

died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the

passengers in his car. "

--Author Unknown
 
When asked... ..... "Wouldn't it have been better to come in at second place than to crash?" Dale Earnhardt Jr said, "No, second place is just the first loser!!!" :-laf :-laf
 
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" James 1:17.



Kinds of puts all my Christmas giving and receiving in perspective.
 
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