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2004
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July 2004:

 

July 29, 2004
 

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"
~ James Madison

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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so;
for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves
in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise,
to put shackles upon sleeping men"
--Voltaire.

 

July 28, 2004
 

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" :
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-----torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-----which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. . The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." :
George Orwell

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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
Albert Einstein

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"I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -
Elie Weisel

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We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men.:
Gerald W. Johnson

 

July 26, 2004
 

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight Eisenhower

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"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." :
Socrates 469 - 399 BC

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king:
Erasmus c.1469 - 1536

 

July 24, 2004
 

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange." :
Daniel Webster

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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." :
Stephen King

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army:
Edward Everett

 

July 23, 2004
 

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object:
Abraham Lincoln

 

July 22, 2004
 

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics:
Robert A. Heinlein

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.:
Voltaire

 

July 21, 2004
 

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty: Thomas Jefferson

 

July 19, 2004
 

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen:
James Madison: US fourth president, 1751-1836

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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
George Washington

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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt 

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I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." -
Admiral Gene LaRocque.

 

July 18, 2004
 

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people:
Frank Kent

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When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty:
George Mason

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men:
Plato

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Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots:
H.L. Mencken

 

July 17, 2004
 

All men having power ought to be mistrusted:
James Madison

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The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection! But the roots of our individualism remind us that what we are is inseparable from the source from which all others derive; that coercive practices that threaten our neighbor also threaten us.:
Butler Shaffer

 

July 16, 2004
 

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends:
Martin Luther King Jr., "The Trumpet of Conscience", 1967

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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."  Plato

 

July 15, 2004
 

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
Booker T. Washington

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The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders:
Veterans Fast for Life


 

July 14, 2004
 

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day":
Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906


 

July 13, 2004
 

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)

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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one."
(Henry Louis Mencken)

 

July 12, 2004
 

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: (1918)

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Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Göring: quote verified at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm

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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

July 10, 2004
 

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth:
Henry Louis Mencken: American humorous journalist, 1880-1956

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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity:
Baltasar Gracian: Spanish philosopher and writer, 1601-1658

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it:
Adolf Hitler
 

 

July 9, 2004
 

"The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.": 
Benjamin Constant.

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"Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it" :
Helvetius
 

 

July 8, 2004
 

"We are the ruling race of the world. . . . We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. . . . He has marked us as his chosen people. . . . He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples." :
Sen. Alfred Beveridge

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"I firmly believe that when any territory outside the present territorial limits of the United States becomes necessary for our defense or essential for our commercial development, we ought to lose no time in acquiring it." :
Sen. Orville Platt of Connecticut 1894.

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"Between 1898 and 1934, the Marines invaded Cuba 4 times, Nicaragua 5 times, Honduras 7 times, the Dominican Republic 4 times, Haiti twice, Guatemala once, Panama twice, Mexico 3 times and Columbia 4 times,"  Washington has intervened militarily in foreign countries more than 200 times."

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  "If the people are not convinced (that the Free World is in mortal danger) it would be impossible for Congress to vote the vast sums now being spent to avert danger. With the support of public opinion, as marshalled by the press, we are off to a good start. It is our Job - yours and mine -- to keep our people convinced that the only way to keep disaster away from our shores is to build up America's might." --
Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Board of General Electric and Truman appointee to head the Office of Defence Mobilization, in a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association, 1950

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 The quotes above are from the book, "Addicted To War" http://www.addictedtowar.com

 

July 7, 2004
 

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty:
Martin Luther King, Jr: 1929-1968

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"Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right." :  Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968

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"Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him." :  
King Baudouin I: King of Belgium  

 

July 2, 2004
 

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy:
James Madison: US fourth president, 1751-1836

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home: James Madison: US fourth president, 1751-1836

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience:
Albert Camus: French novelist, essayist, and playwright.1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1913-1960

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A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty:
George Baumler

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector: Plato: Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)

 

July 1, 2004
 

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version: Oliver North

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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth:
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink:
George Orwell : English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950


Updated/Revised: Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:05:39 -0700

 

 
 

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