QUOTATIONS FROM MY "PRIVATE" COLLECTION ======================================== *** "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920 *** "In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson *** "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 other persons to whom it does not 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." - Frederic Bastiat The Law *** "There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so pervasive that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - President Woodrow Wilson *** "The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent." - Charles Eliot Norton True Patriotism, 1898 *** "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt *** "Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances." - Bill Clinton Time *** "A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth." - Sir Walter Raleigh *** "Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws." - Solon *** "No government is respectable which is not just.-Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society." - Daniel Webster *** "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have...a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean THE CHARACTERS AND CONDUCT OF THEIR RULERS." [emphasis mine] - John Adams *** "The less government we have the better - the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual." - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** "Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic." - Edmund Burke *** "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins." - William Pitt *** "No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy." - Edmund Burke *** "The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil." - Gladstone *** (paraphrased) "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." -Milton Friedman *** The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. - C. L. De Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, VIII *** "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin *** "It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better." - John Ruskin (1819-1900) *** "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge." -CICERO *** "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but say- ing, in other words, that he is wiser to- day than he was yesterday." - ALEXANDER POPE *** "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroach- ments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -JAMES MADISON *** "The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it." -RALPH WALDO EMERSON *** "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is beter to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." -H.L.MENCKEN *** "Truth is God's daughter." - Spanish Proverb *** "He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood." - Augustine *** "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people." - Richard M. Nixon *** "Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire." - Churchill *** "The dove of peace has become the ostrich of complacency." - Jeanne Kirkpatrick *** "I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind." - David Ricardo, economist Dec. 22, 1818 *** "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." - Edmund Burke *** "Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality." - William R. Allen, Prof. U.C.L.A. *** "Let us cling to our principles as the mariner clings to his last plank when night and tempest close around him. And oftener changed their principles than their shirts." - Dr. Young *** "Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Colton *** "Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor." - Hare *** "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason." - Sir John Harrington *** To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735 *** The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. - R. W. Emerson The Conduct Of Life, VI, 1860 *** The honor that is lost in a moment cannot be restored in a hundred years. - Italian Proverb *** Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. - Welsh Proverb *** "A man is the origin of his action" -Aristotle *** The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. - Benjamin Disraeli Speech In London June 24, 1872 *** The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson Speech in New York Sept. 9, 1912 *** The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty. - H. W. Beecher Address at Liverpool Oct.16, 1863 *** If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making? - Herbert Spencer The New Toryism, 1884 *** Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutions, 1903 *** "What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - A. Hitler *** "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken *** I MAKE THE ENEMY SEE MY STRENGTHS AS WEAKNESSES AND MY WEAKNESSES AS STRENGTHS WHILE I CAUSE HIS STRENGTHS TO BECOME WEAKNESSES AND DISCOVER WHERE HE IS NOT STRONG.. - Ho Yen-hsi *** WHEN THE WORLD IS AT PEACE, A GENTLEMAN KEEPS HIS SWORD BY HIS SIDE. - Ho Yen-hsi *** I BELIEVE...THAT EVERY HUMAN MIND FEELS PLEASURE IN DOING GOOD TO ANOTHER. - Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Adams, 1816 *** IGNORANT ASSES VISITING STATIONERS' SHOPS, THEIR USE IS NOT TO INQUIRE FOR GOOD BOOKS, BUT NEW BOOKS. - John Webster The White Devil,pref.,c. 1608 *** "Books for general reading always smell badly; the odor of common people hangs about them." - F. W. Nietzsche Beyond Good And Evil, II, 1886 *** "If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder other officers from the like offences." - Lord Holt Judgement in Ashby vs. Aylesbury, 1702 *** "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow, 1824 *** "Few people do business well who do nothing else." - Lord Chesterfield Letter to his son, Aug.7, 1749 *** "What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling." - Ebenezer Elliott Epigram, 1831 *** "The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry." - G.W. Gough The Economic Consequences of Socialism, I, 1926 *** "What's mine is my own; what's my brother's is his and mine." - Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732 *** "Success or failure of endeavors to substitute sound ideas for unsound will depend ultimately on the abilities and the personalities of the men who seek to achieve this task. If the right men are lacking in the hour of decision, the fate of our civilization is sealed. Even if such pioneers are available, however, their efforts will be futile if they meet with indifference and apathy on the part of their fellow citizens. The survival of civilization can be jeopardized by the misdeeds of individual dictators, Fuhrers, or Duces. Its preservation, reconstruction and continuation, however, require the joint efforts of all men of good will." - Ludwig von Mises *** "A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot." - Plato The Republic, VIII c. 370 B.C. *** "Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal in all repsects." - Aristotle Politics, V c. 322 B.C. *** "A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments." - Aristotle Rhetoric, I c. 322 B.C. *** "Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants." - Seneca Epistulae morales ad Lucilium CIV, c. 63 *** "Democracy has two excesses to be wary of: the spirit of inequality, which leads it to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads it to despotism." - C.L. Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, VIII *** "If there were a nation of gods they would be governed democratically, but so perfect a government is not suitable to men." - J.-J. Rousseau Du contrat social, III 1762 *** "All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositories of power will not, but that they cannot, misemploy it." - J.S. Mill Representative Government, VIII 1861 *** "If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete." - Benjamin Disraeli Speech in the House of Commons March 31, 1850 *** "I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant." - H.F. Amiel Journal, June 12, 1871 *** "To put political power in the hands of men embittered and degraded by poverty is to tie firebrands to foxes andturn them loose amid the standing corn." - Henry George Progress and Poverty, X 1879 *** "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." - Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism 1891 *** "The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality." - Guido De Ruggiero The History of European Liberalism II, 1927 *** "The Democratic party is like a man riding backward in a carriage. It never sees a thing until it has gone by." - Benjamin F. Butler c. 1870 *** "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." - F.W. Nietzsche Human All-too-Human, I 1878 *** "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." - John Lubbock (Lord Avebury) The Pleasures of Life, X 1887 *** "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle Politics, V c. 322 B.C. *** "Men are entitled to equal rights - but to equal rights to unequal things." - Charles James Fox (1749-1806) *** "None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." - John Milton The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 1649 *** "Real freedom means good wages, short hours, security in employment, good homes, opportunity for leisure and recreation with family and friends." - Oswald Mosely Fascism, 1936 (Freedom as defined by Fascism... sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?) *** "A good government produces citizens distinguished for courage, love of justice, and every other good quality; a bad government makes them cowardly, rapacious, and the slaves of every foul desire." - Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquities of Rome, II c. 20 B.C. *** "Let no wise man estrange himself from the government of the state; for it is both wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless." - Epictetus Encheiridion c. 110 *** "I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will." - James I of England Reply to the House of Commons 1621 *** "There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others." - Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, I 1651 (Wanna bet?) *** "The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." - C.L. De Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, VIII *** "Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all." - J.-J. Rousseau Du contrat social, I 1761 *** "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776 *** "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." - Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Feb.8, 1788 *** "The cost of government will continue to increase, I care not what party is in power." - Reed Smoot Speech in the Senate 1925 *** "The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them." - E.W. Howe Notes for My Biographer 1926 *** "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent." - Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis Opinion in Olmstead vs. U.S., 1928 *** "Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government." - Amos R. E. Pinochet Open Letter April 16, 1935 *** "Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy." - Albanian Proverb *** "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves WITHOUT A MASTER." [Emphasis mine] - Thomas Jefferson Letter to David Hartley 1787 *** "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." - Shakespeare Hamlet, II c. 1601 *** "In the frame of a capitalistic society the accumulation of additional capital by those who succeeded in utilizing their funds for the best possible provision of the consumers enriches not only the owners but all of the people, on the one hand by raising the marginal productivity of labor and thereby wages, and on the other hand by increasing the quantity of goods produced and brought to the market. The peoples of the economically backward countries are poorer than the Americans because their countries lack a sufficient number of successful capitalists and entrepreneurs." - Ludwig von Mises *** "Statism postulates the doctrine that the citizen has no rights which the State is bound to respect; the only rights he has are those which the State grants him, and which the State may attenuate or revoke at its own pleasure. This doctrine is fundamental; without its support, all the various nominal modes or forms of Statism which we see at large in Europe and America - such as are called Socialism, Communism, Nazism, Fascism, etc., - would collapse at once. The individualism which was professed by the early Liberals, maintained the contrary; it maintained that the citizen has rights which are inviolable by the State or by any other agency." - Albert J. Nock *** "The measures of the welfare state are means for redistributing the wealth. The recipients may be the aged who receive Medicare, foreign nations who are given tractors and money in foreign aid, urban dwellers for whom new houses are built, farmers who sell their grain to the government at a subsidized price, private or government school beneficiaries of state and Federal grants, children who receive free or subsidized lunches, or those businesses whose projects are government financed. Whatever the means of redistribution may be, the recipient receives what has been seized by violence in taxes collected from others. He receives the fruits of legal plunder." - Francis E. Mahaffy *** "Inflation is one of the most important, yet least understood, issues of our day. Contrary to what we might be led to believe by the news media and some high economic advisors, inflation is not a rise in the general level of prices (often referred to as an increase in the cost of living). Inflation is simply an increase in the supply of money. This increase in the number of dollars in relation to the goods and services that are put up for sale causes people to bid up prices. Thus, a general rise in prices is the effect of inflation. More dollars is the underlying cause of the higher prices." - Tom Rose *** "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" - Adolph Hitler, 1935 *** "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington *** "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." - John Quincy Adams *** "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!" - Patrick Henry *** "We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison *** "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams *** "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their dispising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." - Noah Webster *** "Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?" - U.S. Supreme Court, 1844 *** "Things that are bad for business are bad for people who work for business." - Thomas E. Dewey *** "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson *** "The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." - Woodrow Wilson *** "When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered." - Dorothy Thompson *** "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." - John Philpot Curran *** "Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish." (Don't overdo it). - Lao-Tze *** "What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." - Goethe *** "Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty." - Walt Whitman *** "Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends." - Walter Lippmann *** "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give man opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." - William Ellery Channing *** "The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse." - Edmund Burke *** "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government." - Reverend Henry Ward Beecher *** "The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." - John Quincy Adams *** "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." - H.L. Mencken *** "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent." - John Dewey 1899 Our "father" of education.. *** "...our shools have been scientifically designed to prevent overeducation from happening." - William Troy Harris, 1899 U.S. Commissioner of Education 1889-1906 *** "WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE THERE IS LIBERTY; WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY" *** "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson *** "The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Sam Adams *** "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." -Patrick Henry *** "Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." -James Madison *** "..one of the basic conditions of the victory is socialism is the arming of the workers (communist) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class)." -Vladimir I. Lenin *** "Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship which enjoys a monopoly over weapons, and communications,... is simply not a possibility in the modern age." -George Keenan (1964) *** "Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and opposed subjects." -Leo Tolstoy (1893) *** "I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than the police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers...no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun." -Professor Dean Morris (director, LEAA) *** "If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." -JOSEF STALIN *** "Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep their guns in their hands, what's happened here will never happen there." -A dying Chinese Citizen shot at Beijing, Red China *** "My vision of a NEW WORLD ORDER foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function." -George Bush New York, 1991 *** "It is the SACRED principles enshrined in the U.N. charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." -UN building, Feb 1, 1992. spoken by George Bush *** "The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all History. It's purpose is to distroy the United States." - John E. Rankin U.S. Congressman *** "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." -Zbigniew Brezinsky National advisor to Jimmy Carter *** "Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities" -Zbigniew Brezinsky National Advisor to Jimmy Carter *** Hiding behind a mask of official righteousness, this secret combination seeks to impose it's own concept of geopolitical navigation, nullifying liberty as the hard-won birthright of all Americans." -Lt. Col. James "Bo" Gritz (ret) U.S. Presidential Candidate, 1992 *** Baden Baden, Germany, 1991, Said: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years." -David Rockefeller World Order Godfather *** Rowan Gaither stated to Congressional Reese Commission investigator Norman Dodd: "We operate here under directives which emulate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union."(Ike was president at the time.) -Rowan Gaither President, Ford Foundation,1954 *** Peter Hoagland, Nebraska State Senator and Humanist said in 1983: "Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs, because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in." -Peter Hoagland Nebraska State Senator *** "The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." -Justce Felix Frankfurter U.S. Supreme Court Justice *** Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House, Roosevelt states: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." -Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. President *** "I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to distroy the economic and social independence of the United States!" -George W. Malone U.S. Senator(Nevada) 1957 *** Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company, commented on the privately owned "Federal" Reserve System scam: "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -Henry Ford Founder, Ford Motor Co. *** "I consider it my duty to tell you of the extremely dangerous threats that lie ahead. I KNOW FOR CERTAIN that we are now in a period of the greatest strategic deception, perhaps in all history... The Cold War is NOT over, only in the state of remission... The Soviet Union is not truly 'on the verge of collapse'. Western Defense, on the other hand, is." -General Sir Walter Walker Former NATO Commander-in-Chief *** "Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans, and let them fall asleep." -Mikhail Gorbachev (1987) *** "..then, there will come a peace across the earth." -Joseph Stalin (after Global Communism) *** "..the meaning of peace is the absence of the opposition to Socialism." -Karl Marx *** "No one will enter the New World Order, unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initation." -David Spangler Director, Planetary Initiative (a U.N. Group) *** "The Roman government gave them bread and circuses. Today we give them bread and elections..." - Will Durant *** Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft. - Mark Twain *** "Very few established institutions, governments and consitutions... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends." - Walter Lippman *** A lot of people still have the first dollar they ever made -- Uncle Sam has all the others." *** We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt. *** What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. *** It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. *** Your creed may be interesting but your deeds are much more convincing. *** The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. *** "Congress, simply by requiring businesses to provide some employee benefit, gets businesses to cough up millions of dollars that have the illusion of not being taxes." - John Perkins *** The true object of education should be to train one to think clearly and act rightly. *** WE MAKE OUR FUTURE BY THE BEST USE OF THE PRESENT. *** We've now switched from the New Deal, Fair Deal, and Square Deal to the Ordeal. *** SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM WITHOUT THE FIRING SQUAD. *** Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power. *** In times of prosperity men ask too little of God. In times of adversity, they ask too much. *** Ambition in America is still rewarded -- with high taxes. *** Never in the history of America have so few loused up so much for so many. *** Those who are rooting up the tree of liberty will certainly be crushed by its fall. *** "Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty." - Montesquieu *** "Liberty has never come from the government." - Woodrow Wilson *** "...there will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its power and authority was derived, and treats him accordingly." - Thoreau *** "This nation couldn't move toward socialism if its Congressional leaders didn't believe in it." - John Perkins *** One way to reduce taxes is to hold elections every year because there never seem to be tax increases in an election year. *** It shouldn't be difficult to make an honest living in politics - there doesn't seem to be too much competition. *** Nothing is politically right... when it is morally wrong. *** Politics is the art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other. *** "If our founding fathers were alive today they'd roll over in their graves." - Eisenhower *** It's hard to believe that America was founded to avoid high taxes. *** American's are a religious people. You can tell they trust in God by the way they vote! *** "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." - Theodore Roosevelt *** "There was a time, not long ago, when vulgarity was almost universally viewed as objectionable in our society. Now what is vulgar is vogue." - John Perkins *** Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list Uncle Sam as a dependent. *** No man is better than his principles. *** A man's country is not just a certain area of land. It is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to the principle. *** No man is free who depends on his government for his sustenance, job, home or hope. *** "Can you imagine Moses asking Congress to pass the Ten Commandments." - John Perkins *** We may rest assured that freedom is worth whatever it costs. *** No constitution, no court, no law can save liberty when it dies in the hearts and minds of men and women. *** Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon -- and a mother's love. *** We're becoming different by becoming indifferent. - John Perkins *** The evidence of corruption and scandal gets less flak than the suspicion of freedom and morality. - John Perkins *** The United States Supreme Court has handed down the eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not, in any classroom, read the first ten." *** "Our Founding Fathers believed devoutely that there was a God and that the inalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone." - Tom Clark Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court *** Too often, liberty is not appreciated until it is taken away. *** The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion. *** Capital punishment is when Washington comes up with a new tax. *** Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing a principle. *** Reputation is precious, but character is priceless. *** You can lead a man to Congress but you can't make him think. *** One of the disadvantages of a democracy is the minority has the say and the majority has to pay. *** "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry *** Our congress is continually appointing "fact- finding" committees when what they really need are some "fact-facing" committees. *** Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. *** Re: Clinton I wouldn't exactly call him a liar. Let's just say that he lives on the wrong side of the facts. *** Giving help to the enemy used to be called treason. Now it is called "foreign aid." *** Its getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed. *** "Truth is God's daughter." - Spanish Proverb *** "He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood." - Augustine *** "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people." - Richard M. Nixon *** "Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire." - Churchill *** In concern for his sons, John Adams advised his wife Abigail to: LET THEM REVERE NOTHING BUT RELIGION, MORALITY AND LIBERTY. *** We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams, Oct.11, 1798 Address to the military *** [End]