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“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.” — Barry Goldwater
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“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature … If the next centennial does not find us a great nation…it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.” — James Garfield in 1877
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“The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which….pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.” — British military historian Major General J.F.C. Fuller, l941
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“Find out just what the people will submit to and you will have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” — Frederick Douglas
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“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.” — Edward Everett Hale
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“...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed…so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.” — Patrick Henry
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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” — Hosea 4:6
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“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen….At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” — New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922
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“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” — Thomas Jefferson
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” — Spencer Johnson
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“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.” — Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
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“Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.” — H. L. Mencken
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“It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.” — Thomas Jefferson
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“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” — John Adams
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“ ... No “terrorist” gene is known to exist or is likely to be found… Surely the(y), and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere.” – Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN, 10/03/2001
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“The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no such duty [to submit his books and papers for an examination] to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life and property. His rights are such as existed by the law of the land [Common Law] long antecedent to the organization of the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself, and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights.” — U.S. Supreme Court, Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 at 47 (1905).
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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” — William Blake
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“To preserve their [the people’s] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.” — Thomas Jefferson
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” — John Steinbeck
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“If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.” — Albert Camus
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“The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.” — Rollo May
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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes
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“In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.” — Confucius
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“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and monied corporations, and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the beggar…” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Comment by DTOM on January 30, 2012 at 4:26pm
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...and you picked 2 other guests that I would invite :)
...and of course Sam Clemens was a friend of Nikola Tesla.
Thanks to my dad, my sister and I grew up reading Heinlein, the following quote from my favourite Heinlein work:
"I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms [of a sick culture]: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course--but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking away at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. I guess that's all for now. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial--but those things are obvious; all the histories list them."
"Friday, I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all."
"I have? Are you going to tell me? Or am I going to have to grope around in the dark for it?"
"Mmm. This once I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named... but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
"Really?"
"Pfui. I should have forced you to dig it out yourself; then you would know it. This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength." - Friday by Robert A. Heinlein"Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... [sic] censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything —you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." - “If This Goes On—” published in “Revolt in 2100” (1953) by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Comment by TommyD on January 30, 2012 at 4:10pm
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A dinner party qwith Clemens, Heinlein and Tesla would be a fun evening...
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Without doubt, one of my heroes and the person (living or dead) I would most like to have as a dinner guest (obviously excluding female company ;)
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almost named my son Langhorn....
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More from Sam Clemens...
...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception. - "From Author's Sketch Book, Nov. 1870," reprinted in The Twainian, May 1940It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New CalendarIrreverence is the champion of liberty. - Notebook, 1888
...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more. - The Gilded Age
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. - A Tramp Abroad
...armaments were not created chiefly for the protection of the nations but for their enslavement. - Letter to Baroness von Suttner, 2/17/1898 (quoted in Carl Dolmetsch, Our Famous Guest)
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'Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.'~ Mark Twain
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Comment by Tara on January 30, 2012 at 3:41pm
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. - Mark Twain in Eruption
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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Comment by Maria De Wind on January 29, 2012 at 2:29am
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority..... from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. - Lord Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
"Every act of resistance makes tyranny weaker. Many, many acts of resistance, even small ones, can topple it. I don’t wish suffering on myself or anyone else, but I am proud of people who have stood up for truth and justice when it was dangerous to do so. And I’ll be proud to BE one of those people, no matter what happens to me." - Tessa David Rose, wife of Larken Rose
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 inevitably 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 even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. - Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956) - Smart Set (December 1919)
When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. - Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956) - Newspaper Days: 1899-1906 (1941)
If you can control about three or four key elements, you can totally own a state. You can make right wrong, you can make truth falsehood, falsehood truth. If you control the media; If you control the justice department; If you control the police; You own the system. - John DeCamp, former state senator, author of 'The Franklin Cover-up'
"A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Justice Antonin Scalia
Before their thunder roars, there is a period of anticipation, in which more occurs than the literal minded tyrant can ever understand. A few overt acts of sedition shatter the heavy peace. But the greater force, unrecognized, rolls forward in near silence, as millions of individuals quietly withdraw their consent from the state. The pundits call it apathy. They could not be more wrong. - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution
When government turns bad, the best of people ultimately become criminals. The people don't change; the laws do. Initiative, dissent, individual pleasures, and exercise of one's basic rights become 'crimes'. - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution (1996) - Claire Wolfe, Don't Shoot The Bastards - Yet
Freedom is, and always has been, free. It's the politicians and their followers that keep jacking the price up. – Claire Wolfe, 05/02/2007
Oh, yeah. Mr. President, if it is a revolution you want, then it is a revolution I propose to give you. If you begin to use troops to subdue American civilians at home, as if they were revolutionaries, I intend, personally, to legitimize any such deployment of troops by actually giving your stooges a revolution to fight. To quote, well, YOU, Mr. President: "Bring It On!". And when it's all over, I have a noose prepared with your name on it. After a fair trial, of course, unlike the one you propose through the Patriot Act to deny me. – Liz Michael, Shoot 'em 2: The Bird Is The Word, October 16, 2005
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defence or for the defence of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right. ~ Mohandas Gandhi, (H, 27-10-1946, pp369-70)
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. - Robert Heinlein
I am a revolutionist by birth, reading, and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolt. - Mark Twain
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state - to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support. - Herbert Spencer
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime. - Max Stirner
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - Henry St. George Tucker (in Blackstone's Commentaries)
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. (V.1311a11) - Aristotle
LIBERTY IS A BINARY CONDITION like pregnancy. You can't be "just a little" pregnant. You either is, or you ain't. There's no shades of being free. There's no compromise with tyranny. You're either free, a slave, or dead.
Every so often, I get one of those stiff, thick envelopes in the mail and wonder if I should renew my membership. And then the NRA goes and trucks with tyrants and I'm reminded why I don't. - Mark Philip Alger
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. – Robert LeFevre
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