QUOTATIONS FROM MY "PRIVATE" COLLECTION
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Nearly everyone will lie to you given the
right circumstances."
- Bill Clinton
Time
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"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
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"Society is well governed when the people
obey the magistrates, and the magistrates
obey the laws."
- Solon
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Vice incapacitates a man from all public
duty; it withers the powers of his under-
standing, and makes his mind paralytic."
- Edmund Burke
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"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
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"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
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"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
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(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
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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
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"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"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)
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth
is to use it."
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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"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
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"Truth is God's daughter."
- Spanish Proverb
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"He who conceals a useful truth is equally
guilty with the propagator of an injurious
falsehood."
- Augustine
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"Politics would be a helluva good business
if it weren't for the goddamned people."
- Richard M. Nixon
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"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
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"The dove of peace has become the
ostrich of complacency."
- Jeanne Kirkpatrick
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"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
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"There is no safety for honest men
but by believing all possible evil
of evil men."
- Edmund Burke
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"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.
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"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
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"Men are born with two eyes, but with
one tongue, in order that they should see
twice as much as they say."
- Colton
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"Purity is the feminine,
truth the masculine, of honor."
- Hare
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"Treason doth never prosper. What's the
reason?
Why, when it prospers, none dare call it
treason."
- Sir John Harrington
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals
courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
- Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735
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The louder he talked of his honor
the faster we counted our spoons.
- R. W. Emerson
The Conduct Of Life, VI, 1860
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The honor that is lost in a moment
cannot be restored in a hundred years.
- Italian Proverb
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to
associate with honorable people.
- Welsh Proverb
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"A man is the origin of his action"
-Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most
men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Maxims for Revolutions, 1903
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"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
- A. Hitler
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"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
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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
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WHEN THE WORLD IS AT PEACE, A GENTLEMAN KEEPS HIS SWORD
BY HIS SIDE.
- Ho Yen-hsi
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I BELIEVE...THAT EVERY HUMAN MIND FEELS PLEASURE
IN DOING GOOD TO ANOTHER.
- Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams, 1816
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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
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"Books for general reading always smell badly;
the odor of common people hangs about them."
- F. W. Nietzsche
Beyond Good And Evil, II, 1886
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"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
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"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
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"Few people do business well who do nothing else."
- Lord Chesterfield
Letter to his son, Aug.7, 1749
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"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
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"The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry."
- G.W. Gough
The Economic Consequences of Socialism,
I, 1926
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"What's mine is my own; what's my brother's is
his and mine."
- Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants."
- Seneca
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
CIV, c. 63
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people."
- Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
1891
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The only stable state is the one in which all men are
equal before the law."
- Aristotle
Politics, V
c. 322 B.C.
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"Men are entitled to equal rights - but to equal rights
to unequal things."
- Charles James Fox
(1749-1806)
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"None can love freedom heartily but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license."
- John Milton
The Tenure of Kings and
Magistrates
1649
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"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?)
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"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.
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"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
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"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
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"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?)
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The cost of government will continue to increase, I care
not what party is in power."
- Reed Smoot
Speech in the Senate
1925
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy."
- Albanian Proverb
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"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
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"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man
picked out of ten thousand."
- Shakespeare
Hamlet, II
c. 1601
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams
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"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
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"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
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"Things that are bad for business are bad for people
who work for business."
- Thomas E. Dewey
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"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
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"The history of liberty is a history of the limitations
of governmental power, not the increase of it."
- Woodrow Wilson
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"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
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
- John Philpot Curran
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"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish."
(Don't overdo it).
- Lao-Tze
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"What is the best government?
That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
- Goethe
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"Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,
ever afterward resumes its liberty."
- Walt Whitman
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"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
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"The office of government is not to confer happiness,
but to give man opportunity to work out happiness for
themselves."
- William Ellery Channing
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"The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse."
- Edmund Burke
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"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy,
is government."
- Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
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"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom,
and defended it as they ought."
- John Quincy Adams
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"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
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"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..
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"...our shools have been scientifically designed
to prevent overeducation from happening."
- William Troy Harris, 1899
U.S. Commissioner of Education
1889-1906
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"WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE THERE IS LIBERTY;
WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY"
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"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
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"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
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"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who
is able may have a gun."
-Patrick Henry
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"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
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"..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
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"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)
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"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved
and opposed subjects."
-Leo Tolstoy (1893)
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"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)
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"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good. If it
refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
-JOSEF STALIN
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"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
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"My vision of a NEW WORLD ORDER foresees a United Nations
with a revitalized peacekeeping function."
-George Bush
New York, 1991
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise
power from behind the scenes."
-Justce Felix Frankfurter
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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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
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"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
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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.
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"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)
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"..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
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"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
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"...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
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