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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
I don't like the income tax.
Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'.
That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto.
Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him..
~ T. Coleman Andrews ~
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Source.. May 25, 1956 in US. News & World Report
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From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs..
~ Karl Marx ~ (1818-1883)
Father of Communism, Author of the 'Communist Manifesto'
Source.. The Criticism of the Gotha Program, 1875
Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute.
The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary..
~ Ayn Rand ~ (1905-1982)
Author
You can't save free markets by socialism, I don't know where this idea ever came from.
You save free markets by promoting free markets and sound money and balanced budgets.
The whole reason why nobody wants to address the real problem is, we're spending a trillion dollars a year overseas running an empire, and it's coming to an end.
This country is bankrupt, and we won't admit it.
Eventually though, the dollar will go bust, and we will bring our troops home, and we will live within our means,
but we ought to do it sensibly, rather than waiting for the collapse of the dollar, and this is what we're doing, we're on the verge of destroying our dollar.
And then, you think we have problems now, problems then will be a lot worse, it'd look like the Weimar Republic, or a third world nation.
And a lot of people know that, and they're scared to death,
but we don't need to be making the problem worse by just propping up everything with more government programs, more inflation, and more helicopters, it won't work..
~ Dr. Ron Paul ~ (1935-)
American physician, US Congressman (R-TX), US Presidential candidate
Source.. Fox Business Network, October 14, 2008
The world breaks everyone
and afterward, some are strong
at the broken places..
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
Three steps to health and happiness
1. Eat X 1/2
2. Walk X 2
3. Smile X 3
A politician in the business world
Would be toast
When it comes to trust..
~ vexari ~
Another major reason why crime is increasing is that crime pays,
and in our tax-ridden, regulation crushed economy, many people cannot economically survive through low-end jobs. ...
'The income that offenders can earn in the world of crime, as compared with the world of work, all too often makes crime appear to be the better choice.'
In Washington, D.C., it costs $7,000 in city fees to open a pushcart.
In California, up to eighty federal and state licenses are required to open a small business.
In New York, a medallion to operate a taxicab costs $150,000.
More than 700 occupations in the United States require a government license.
Throughout the country, church soup kitchens are being closed by departments of health.
No wonder so many people turn to crime and violence to survive."
~ Jacob G. Hornberger ~
American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Source.. Will You be Safer if Guns are Banned?, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 9-10 (1997).
... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed:
the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.
And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people.
Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more.
The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes;
the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...
~ Benjamin Franklin ~ (1706-1790)
US Founding Father
Source.. before the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787)
Our government has found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the ballot or the bullet,
but rather by the 'bucket'.
Today, in a country that fought a revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes,
government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes..
~ Byron C. Radaker ~
Chairman and C.E.O., Congoleum Corp.
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk..
~ Bertolt Brecht ~ (1898-1956)
German dramatist, stage director, and poet
No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise.
We are all Hobbesians now.
Virtue is presumed to reside in the state.
Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality.
Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted.
The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them..
~ Tom Bethel ~
Source: Freedom and Its Enemies, AMERICAN SPECTATOR, June, 1999 p. 19.
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws?
If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States, we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'
~ Michael Moriarty ~ (1941)
American-Canadian stage and screen actor, jazz musician
The practice of interlocking directors is the practice of many evils.
It offends laws, both human and divine.
Applied to rival corporations, it tends to the suppression of competition ...
applied to corporations which deal with each other, it tends to disloyalty
and violation of the fundamental law that no man can serve two masters.
In either event, it tends to inefficiency for it removes incentives and destroys soundness of judgment.
It is undemocratic for it rejects the platform:
A fair field and no favors- substituting the pull of privilege for the push of manhood
~ Louis Brandeis ~ (1856-1941)
Ex. US Supreme Court Justice
Source.. House of Representatives, Pujo committee report, 1913
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us,
he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,
for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language..
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people..
~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ 1907
This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and North, on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis nor any one of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promise of the Jesuits, that, under the mask of Democracy, the money and the arms of the Roman Catholics, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us..
~ Abraham Lincoln ~ (1809-1865)
16th US President
Source.. Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, The Wickliffe Press, Protestant Truth Society, Wickliffe Avenue, 104 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London, N3., 1885, p. 388.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies,
one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left,
is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Instead, the two parties should be almost identical,
so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
~ Carroll Quigley ~
Georgetown University Professor
Source.. Tragedy and Hope, 1966, pp. 1247-1248
[T]he tax code has been piling up
year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America
of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away
It has to happen
Free people can put up with such laws only for so long..
~ Richard Armey ~ (1940- )
U.S. Congressman (R-TX) (1985–2003), House Majority Leader (1995–2003).
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government
... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy
This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy
and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior..
~ Jacob G. Hornberger ~
American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Source.. The Nazi Mind-Set in America, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 63 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997).
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws,
are all - to different degrees -
unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort..
~ Jack Kemp ~ (1935-2009)
American politician, collegiate and professional football player
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today’s social and economic difficulties.
Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems.
Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more.
But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills..
~ Doug Bandow ~ (1954- )
Columnist, author, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Source.. Big business is not to blame, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, October 13, 1995.
Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. It has not.
The totalitarian State is only the State; the kind of thing it does is only what the State has always done with unfailing regularity,
if it had the power to do it, wherever and whenever its own aggrandizement made that kind of thing expedient.
Give any State like power hereafter, and put it in like circumstances, and it will do precisely the same kind of thing.
The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight.
It has always done so, and always will..
~ Albert Jay Nock ~ (1870-1945)
Source.. The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it..
~ Albert Einstein ~ (1879-1955)
Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship,
the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics:
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it;
and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you
carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you..
~ Albert Jay Nock ~ (1870-1945)
Source.. The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan,
'The public good before the private good,'
the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs,
'Serve the people,'
and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan,
'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'
Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions'
is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell..
~ Rick Gaber ~
Libertarian writer
A wise and frugal government
which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government,
and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly..
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ (1929-1968)
US civil rights leader
Letter from the Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it.
Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve...
But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply.
See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic..
~ Frederic Bastiat ~ (1801-1850)
French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following--
the French Revolution of February 1848.
Source.. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat, 1850
Do not expect justice
where might is right..
~ Plato ~ (429-347 BC)
Source.. Phaedrus, 360 B.C.
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders.
James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees.
He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.'
Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail..
~ Walter Williams ~
Source.. On Why Socialism Is Evil.
The moment the idea is admitted into society
that property is not as sacred as the law of God,
and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it,
anarchy and tyranny commence..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source.. Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States
Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man,
but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,
and is revolted by it,
however ingeniously it may be disguised..
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi ~ (1828-1910)
Russian writer
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals"
without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....
we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity...
~ Robert M. Lafollette, Sr. ~ (1855-1925)
U.S. Senator
Source.. The Progressive, March 1920
~~~
The four branches of government (the propaganda arm that is the press, being here recognized as the forth branch)
have all denied liberty, civil and otherwise, and shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity..
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me..
~ Reverend Martin Niemoeller ~ (1892-1984)
German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.
Source.. paraphrased and inscribed at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts
It seems as if the Department [of Justice]
sees the value of the Bill of Rights
as no more than obstacles to be overcome..
~ Prof. Sanford H. Kadish ~
The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom
and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight..
~ John F. Kennedy ~ (1917-1963) 35th US President
Source..
Questionable: supposedly spoken at a speech at Columbia University on Nov. 12, 1963, 10 days before his assassination. There is no record of this speech.
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