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But what do we mean by the American Revolution?
Do we mean the American war?
The Revolution was effected before the war commenced
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people
was the real American Revolution..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: letter to H. Niles, February 13, 1818
Forgive your enemies
but never forget their names..
~ John F. Kennedy ~
Life is rented
It's what one makes of one's self
While time is being
That looks you in the eye..
That only the blind
can see..
"The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra." ~Author Unknown
There is nothing more difficult to plan
more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage
than the creation of a new order of things
… Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator
they do so with the passion of partisans
while the others defend him sluggishly
so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable..
~ Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Freedom is never more than one generation away
from extinction..
~ Ronald Reagan ~
The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood
by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media
is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint..
~ George Will ~ (1941-)
American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
Believe me, it is not failing to speak out with promptitude and energy that is the matter with you;
it is having nothing consistent or valuable to say..
~ Matthew Arnold ~ (1822-1887)
“I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7378236-i-come-into-the-peace-of-wild-things-who-do
It’s only when the tide goes out
that you learn who’s been swimming naked..
~ Warren Buffett ~
Source.. Investment Philosophy, roger wilco
Few quotes have as many different perspectives
With the same impact..
Always stand on principle
even if you stand alone..
~ John Quincy Adams ~ (1767-1848)
6th US President
No good government but what is republican
the very definition of a republic is
'an empire of laws, and not of men..'
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source.. "Thoughts on Government" January, 1776
I would rather starve and rot
and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it
than of holding all the offices that capital has to give
from the presidency down..
~ Henry Brooks Adams ~ (1838-1918)
Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams
Source.. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, 1919
Freedom is the right to question and change
the established way of doing things
It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace
It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions..
~ Ronald Reagan ~ (1911-2004)
40th US President
Source.. Address to students at Moscow State University, 05/31/88
A free press is not a privilege
but an organic necessity
in a great society..
~ Walter Lippmann ~ (1889-1974)
American writer, journalist, and political commentator
There is no such thing at this date
of the world's history in America as an independent press
You know it and I know it
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions
and if you did
you know beforehand that it would never appear in print
I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things
and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions
would be out on the streets looking for another job
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth
to lie outright
to pervert
to vilify
to fawn at the feet of mammon
and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes
We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men
We are intellectual prostitutes..
~ John Swinton ~ (1829-1901)
Former Head of Editorial Staff for the New York Times
Was one of America's best loved newspapermen
Called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession" 1880, At a banquet in his honor..
Source.. Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979
It is the fundamental theory
of all the more recent American law...
that the average citizen is half-witted,
and hence not to be trusted
to either his own devices
or his own thoughts..
~ H. L. Mencken ~ (1880-1956)
American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive,
we shall never in any wise consent submit to the rule of the English,
for it is not for glory we fight, nor riches, or for honour,
but for freedom alone,
which no good man loses but with his life..
~ Robert Bruce ~ (1274-1329)
[Robert I] King of Scots (1306-1329), known as Robert the Bruce
Source.. Declaration of Arbroath (April 6, 1320)
When a well-packaged web of lies
has been sold gradually to the masses over generations,
the truth will seem utterly preposterous
and its speaker a raving lunatic..
~ Dresden James ~ (1931-2008)
[Donald James Wheal] a British novelist and scriptwriter
Source.. Attributed
Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed
Genocide happens when they are not..
~ A.E. Samaan ~
Fascism, communism and national socialism all share in common
the explicit premise that the individual must subordinate himself to society's needs,
or as Hitler would phrase it:
'Society's needs come before the individual needs..'
~ A. E. Samaan ~
Christian-Palestinian and Central American Hispanic author, artist, photographer
Source.. 'From a Race of Masters to a Master Race'
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints
but the presence of alternative thoughts
The most successful tyranny
is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity,
but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities..
~ Alan Bloom ~ (1930-1992)
Source.. The Closing of the American Mind, 1987
...I know not what treason is,
if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people
be not treason...
~ Cato ~
John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
For if it prosper,
none dare call it Treason..
~ Sir John Harrington ~ (1561-1612)
English courtier, wit, poet and satirist
Source.. Epigrams, Book iv. Ep. 5.
But if you say, you can still pass the violations over,
then I ask, hath your house been burnt?
Hath your property been destroyed before your face?
Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on?
Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor?
If you have not, then you are not a judge of those who have.
But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers,
then you are unworthy of the name of husband, father, friend, or lover,
and whatever may be your rank or title in life,
you have the heart of a coward and the spirit of a sycophant..
~ Thomas Paine ~ (1737-1809)
US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Source.. Common Sense, 1776
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law)
when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,
and when they defend their rights ...
is as great a treason as ever a man uttered
Tis treason not against one single man, but against the state - against the whole body politic;
tis treason against mankind;
tis treason against Common sense;
tis treason against God;
And this impious principle lays the foundation for justifying all the tyranny and oppression that ever any prince was guilty of
The people know for what end they set up and maintain their governors,
and they are the proper judges when governors execute their trust as they ought to do it..
~ Jonathan Mayhew ~ (1720-1766)
Founding Father, clergyman, minister
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause,
as men get on horseback when they cannot walk..
~ Cicero ~
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions?
Examine the history of England
See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension
They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once,
or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected
Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good,
that operation is now become habitual
and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. letter to James Madison, 1788
Definition of 'habeas corpus':
A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty.
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,
removed from office;
and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law
The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable:
There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable,
no punishment to which he can be subjected
without involving the crisis of a national revolution..
~ Alexander Hamilton ~ (1757-1804)
Source.. Federalist #65
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious
But it cannot survive treason from within
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself
For the traitor appears not a traitor;
he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men
He rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist
A murderer is less to fear
The traitor is the plague..
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ (106-43 B.C.)
Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Source.. Attributed. 58 BC, Speech in the Roman Senate
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable
to the American public..
~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ (1858-1919)
26th US President
Treason against the United States
shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted..
~ Treason Clause ~
Source.. Treason Clause in the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
indicates that the truth endorsed by authority
is likely to be accepted as such
by a majority of the people..
~ David Edwards ~
British columnist
Source.. Burning All Illusions, 1996
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it.
And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time,
and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses.
In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities,
everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side..
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ (1749-1832)
Persecution for opinion
is the master vice of society..
~ Frances Wright ~ (1795-1852)
Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer
Source.. Lecture, 1829
I wouldn't call it fascism exactly
but a political system nominally controlled
by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate
who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media
that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment
can hardly be described as democracy either..
~ Edward Zehr ~ (1936-2001)
Columnist
The conscious and intelligent manipulation
of the organized habits and opinions of the masses
is an important element in democratic society..
~ Edward Bernays ~ (1891-1995)
"Father" of modern public relations (PR) and director of the U.S. Committee on Public Information during World War I, on government propaganda
Source.. Bernays, Propaganda (1928), chapter 1.
The devil’s best trick
is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!
~ Charles Baudelaire ~ (1821-1867)
French poet, critic and translator
Source.. in his 1864 short story, “The Generous Gambler”
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
~ James Madison ~ (1751-1836)
Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds
while withholding some of the facts from them..
~ Harold Evans ~ (1928-)
British journalist, writer, editor
All good government is and must be republican
But at the same time, you can or will agree with me, that there is not in lexicography a more fraudulent word
Are we not, my friend, in danger of rendering the word republican unpopular in this country by an indiscreet, indeterminate, and equivocal use of it?
Whenever I use the word republic with approbation, I mean a government in which the people have collectively, or by representation, an essential share in the sovereignty
The republican forms in Poland and Venice are much worse, and those of Holland and Bern very little better, than the monarchical form in France before the late revolution..
~ John Adams ~ 1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source.. Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 Oct, 1789 in Works, VI:415,420-421
Comments about this quote:
The battle for the world is the battle of definitions. Even in Adams' time, the corruption of the meaning of the word 'republican' had begun. Today it is an archaic term replaced by the word 'democracy' -- a term even more fraudulent. In corporate America, we invent so many words and jargon that a glossary of terms is included in most corporate documents and contracts to better clarify what is being developed or agreed upon. Perhaps American government should do the same in their own decrees so that decades and generations later the People can clearly understand the original intent, meaning, and agreement. If republican government must be guaranteed to every State in the Union, then 'republican' ought to be defined in explicit detail within the accord, not centuries later after the word has taken on new meaning.
~ E Archer, NYC ~
What Adams is saying here is the basis of our country, that each and every individual man and women is 100% independently sovereign. Under English rule, only the King was sovereign who then dealt out rights, privileges, and license to the people who were NOT sovereign (Lords, Knights, serfs, etc.) The founders sought to make a system where all men were considered equally sovereign, just like the King-- a country of Kings, as it were. Each country has their own particular political foundations; some countries carry the facade of a Republic (in name only) like China or N. Korea, while other Republics base the foundation of their laws on different assumptions and verifying authorities than the United States. In America, after seeing the long train of human abuses throughout history, the founders sought to base THIS federalism on something that would never change, and the best thing they could find were the laws of nature (nature being the strongest constant they could find).
~ Logan, Memphis, TN ~
Liberty, human dignity, a higher standard of living is fundamental.
And, steadily, I think, people are beginning to realise that you don't have those things unless you have a pretty large private enterprise sector.
Any Iron Curtain country has neither liberty, nor a very high standard of living.
The two things go, economic and political freedom, go together.
I've been right in the forefront of saying that, here, in the States,
and it's very interesting to me now, to see a number of articles from people who are taking up the same theme.
They are disturbed that Socialism is reducing liberty and freedom for ordinary people, and that's really what matters..
~ Margaret Thatcher ~ (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979–1990)
Source.. 1976 Feb 5, TV Interview for Thames TV 'This Week'
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ...
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself:
'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'..
~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi ~ (1869-1948)
Source.. M. K. Gandhi quoted in Gene Sharp, The Politics Of Nonviolent Action (1973), p. 59.
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives
but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty.
They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship.
They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.
Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!!
~ Ludwig von Mises ~ (1881-1973)
Economist and social philosopher
Economic control is not merely control of a sector
of human life that can be separated from the rest;
it is the control of the means for all our ends..
~ Ludwig von Mises ~ (1881-1973)
Economist and social philosopher, escaped from NAZI Germany
Source.. Human Action
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