"19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300
million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties
that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have
already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is
mind-boggling that we are that weak as a society" Rocco Galati
April 29, 2004:
"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. François Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing
the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its
citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear: " Harry S. Truman
April 28, 2004:
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous
to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." Baron De Montesquieu
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive
is that the end justifies the means." Georges Bernanos
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we
may be led, like sheep to the slaughter George Washington.
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"To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To
be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die." Oscar Wilde
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"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has
always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the
history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the increase of it" Woodrow Wilson
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true
place for a just man is also a prison ..: Henry David Thoreau
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"The efficiency of the truly national leader consists
primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in
concentrating it on a single enemy" Adolf Hitler
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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their
interests and his own are the same" Marie Beyle
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a
revolutionary act.": George Orwell
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they
do it from religious conviction" Blaise Pascal
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"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
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"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should
be punished as criminals" Charles Evans Hughes
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"Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it,
and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but
murder in uniform?" Douglas Jerrold
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"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that
killing people is wrong?" Holly Near
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"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for
battle, but to make them long for it" Louis Simpson
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"War is fear cloaked in courage" William Westmoreland
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"The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a
tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of
slaughter" Reginald Wright Kauffman
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how
justified, is not a crime" Ernest Hemingway
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It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it
wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil
obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed
the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and
millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that
people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and
stupidity, and war, and cruelty" Howard Zinn
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"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or
section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and
parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in
which the folly and wickedness of the government may engage itself?
"Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time
comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy
the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional
injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender
everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an
ambitious and mischievous government may require it? . . .
"A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the
most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into
the heads of men." Daniel Webster, Speech in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1814
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