FREEDOM QUOTES http://everist.org/archives/links/__Freedom_quotes.txt Updated 20231216 See also: * __Banking_quotes.txt * __Freedom_quotes-Thomas_Jefferson.txt * __Gun_control_quotes.txt * __Gun_control_links.txt "How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington (The first American President) "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." -- Bertrand Russell "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -- Albert Einstein "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." -- Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth." -- Albert Einstein "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." —- Albert Einstein "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." -- Albert Einstein "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." -- Albert Einstein 1954 "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." -- Albert Einstein No man escapes when freedom fails; the best men rot in filthy jails. Those who cried, "Appease! Appease!", are hanged by those they tried to please. -- Unknown The Second Coming, Yeats: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand; The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -------- "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk." -- Harry Browne If the law where you are doesn't allow you to read this, shouldn't you be out starting a revolution or something? --------- voxfux: Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy warn of Bush: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. What, in its essence, is Fascism, but ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert Kennedy ------------------- "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." -- Theodore Roosevelt. WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS??? -- Dorothy Parker "Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the state." -- U.S. Army: Army Talk, Orientation Fact Sheet 64, March 24, 1945. "The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of LEISURE, BRUTALITY, AND STUPIDITY. The next step is to FASCINATE FOOLS and MUZZLE THE INTELLIGENT, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other." -- Bertrand Russell: Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940. "A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither." -- Milton Friedman "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." "When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking." "A fool cannot reason, a bigot will not and a coward dare not." "I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth." -- Henry David Thoreau "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -- Henry David Thoreau "Government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government they will have." -- Henry David Thoreau "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." -- Mohandas Gandhi "Tyranny hates reason! Tyranny hates honor! This is because Tyranny is overcome by REASON and HONOR. It is Folly and Fear that is the food of Tyrants. Tyranny thrives in a climate of dishonor and tolerance of tyranny. Turn on the lamp of truth and justice and tyranny flees. -- Reinhold Sommerstedt "To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men." -- Abraham Lincoln "People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief of the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility." -- Eric-Hoffer 'The True Believer' "Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." -- Thomas Paine "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Paine "The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) (The founders were well aware of concepts like the ones the liberal left pushes – which is why the Constitution does not allow them.) “Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.” -- Thomas Paine “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” -- Thomas Paine "A body of men holding themselvs accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody." -- Thomas Paine “Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.” -- Thomas Paine "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches ... appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." -- Thomas Paine "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -- Thomas Paine Note: Instagram and Facebook blocked this quote from for "false information." Apparently not perceiving the irony. "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.“ -- Thomas Paine BE A WATCHMAN ON THE WALL: "There has never been an atrocity, there has never been a war, there has never been a betrayal of the people that was not made known to at least one son of God who had the opportunity to enter into the initiation of the crucifixion on behalf of the entire planetary body by taking his stand and holding the cross and caring not for his life, his fortune, his sacred honor, his family, his gain or his loss! Beloved hearts, in every case in every betrayal (and all of these will one day be known to you), there has always been the opportunity, male or female, to come forth and to expose!" -- El Morya, Feb.14, 1982 via E.C.P. "Not only they that do evil are worthy to be condemned, but they also that consent to them. The law is written-- your silence is consent." -- E.C.P., 1985 "So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." -- Voltarine de Cleyre "The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." -- Voltaire "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- François-Marie Arouet - Voltaire 1694 - 1778. "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill "Communism was solely an invention of the zionist jews." -- Winston Churchill "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill "Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob and/or kill sll successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing. -- Anon "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." -- President Woodrow Wilson, 1913 "The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of society. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. But in matters of vital importance -- meaning, in effect, war and police espionage -- the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter." -- George Orwell "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." -- George Orwell "It's not so much staying alive, it's staying HUMAN that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other." -- George Orwell "All tyrannies rule through fraud and force but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." --George Orwell "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- George Orwell (regarding how totalitarian states destroy societies and keep people living under ignorant and fearful tyranny.) "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." -– Susan B. Anthony "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 two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -- Thomas Jefferson, greatest of all the Founding Fathers "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." -- Thomas Jefferson "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." -- Thomas Jefferson (back then!) "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." -- Thomas Jefferson "This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." -- Thomas Jefferson "In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell, June 14, 1807. "I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." -- Thomas Jefferson "The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores teh Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people." -- Thomas Jefferson "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." -- Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors. "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." -- Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson "The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent...To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations... The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." -- Thomas Jefferson "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press." -- Thomas Jefferson "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -- JFK (months before he was allegedly slain by police state henchmen, whom he opposed) "The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to forment uprisings." -- According to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese Shogun who lived in the 16th Century. "The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato "Power should be confined to those who are not in love with it." -- Plato "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses." -- Plato ------------------ Critique from kindledcommutes: What a bad meme to spread! Plato had a lot of things wrong. Who would cast a spell like this? What's his interest in maintaining the ostracism of honest people? How about this instead?: "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture are honest, valuable people who lay the foundation for the New Civilization." That makes more sense to me. Spread -that- meme around so it takes hold, what the hell were people thinking back then? how could they do this to us? That is a better meme to lay down for Western Civilization, instead of the 'forms' and the 'ideals' that Plato used to provide talentless bureaucracies the tools they use to control us to this day. Plato was the first paid-off phony intellectual. ------------------ And yet... "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." -- Plato "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." -- Benjamin Franklin "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" -- Benjamin Franklin "Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise." -- Benjamin Franklin "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin "Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." -- P.J. O'Rourke "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw "Only in this America of the early 21st century could it be true that the man who was president during the worst attack on our nation and the man who was the mayor of the city in which that attack principally unfolded would not only be absolved of any and all blame for the unreadiness of their own governments, but, moreover, would thereafter be branded heroes of those attacks." -- Keith Olbermann "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." -- Carl Sagan "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the ILLUSION of knowledge." -- Daniel Boorstin (And the second greatest is contempt for discovery/knowledge. - GKD) "Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." -- E.R. Beadle "The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries, surely stands in a lonely place." -- Gary Zukov "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller "The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." -- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director 1924-1972, quoted in The Elks Magazine (August 1956). "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people... Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice." -- John Adams "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe" -- John Adams - 2nd US President. "You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." -- John Adams "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." -- Frank Herbert "Take stock of those around you and you will...hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyze those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas of this reality. Quite the contrary: through these notions the individual is trying to cut off any personal vision of reality, of his own very life. For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his "ideas" are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality.” -- JOSÉ ORTEGA y GASSET "Often behind a false moderation there lurks genuine cowardice." -- Gonzague de Reynold. (quoted in the introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn) "The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." -- President John F. Kennedy, at Yale University on Jun 11, 1962 "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." -- President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address of 1961. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy "If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." -- George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter "Tyranny requires constant tending, lest the 'illusion of Righteous Authority' evaporate in the light of the grim toll, and the brutes be overpowered by the people who greatly outnunber them." -- Ayn Rand "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." -- Ayn Rand "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed." -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged", 1957 "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." -- Ayn Rand "The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." -- Ayn Rand "There is no difference between Communism and Socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: Communism proposes to enslave men by force, Socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." -- Ayn Rand “We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” -- Ayn Rand "Man shall not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Jean Meslier, or Denis Diderot, or perhaps Voltaire, depending whom you ask. -----------------re elites, esp. Bilderbergs------from http://www.bilderberg.org/index.htm ------------ "...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." -- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999. "Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini "...the world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not themselves behind the scenes." -- Benjamin Disraeli - British PM - 'Coningsby' pub. 1844 "It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." -- Noel Coward "The Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings." -- George McGhee, former US Ambassador to West Germany "I don't think it's true to say that we want to keep it [Bilderberg] out [of the public consciousness], we never wanted to get it in. We don't encourage people to mention it in the mainstream press because we don't encourage idle speculation about what we do. ...... We forbid individual attendees from giving press meetings at our conferences, and we do that not because we're secrecy mad, but because we want to control the politicians who come." -- Martin Taylor - Secretary General, Bilderberg - interviewed by Jon Ronson for the UK Channel 4 TV programme 'Secret Rulers of the World' transmitted 27Jun01 "There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge." -- H. M. Queen Elizabeth II (in conversation with royal butler Paul Burrell) Daily Mirror Definition of a Power Elite: 'A group of men, similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes.' -- C. Wright Mills 'The Power Elite' "The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison, which alienates their possessor from the community." -- Carl Jung: 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul' "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." -- President Eisenhower - farewell address to the nation - Jan 16th 1961 "What luck for rulers that men do not think" -- Adolf Hitler "The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one." -- Adolf Hitler: 'Mein Kampf' "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." -- Adolf Hitler Read more: http://www.prepperpodcast.com/history-dhs-ammunition-purchases/#ixzz24tfQM1Rg "Their motivation is, that the elite shall be able to act in secrecy. It is not because they are evil, but because they believe in what they are doing. International capital wants to remove all obstacles to globalisation - and all obstacles to the right of capital to act freely without constrictions such as regard for the environment, social responsibility or human rights. Demands from local democracies are such obstacles." -- Birger Schlaug, Swedish Green party "Globalisation is the new Totalitarianism." -- Vandana Shiva, NEF Peoples' Summit, Birmingham 1998 -------------------------------------------------- Two thousand years ago, a Roman Senator suggested that all slaves wear white armbands to better identify them. "No," said a wiser Senator, "If they see how many of them there are, they may revolt." -------------------------------------------------- "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790. "Can anything be more absurd than that a nation should apply to an individual to maintain its credit, and with it's credit, its existence and its comfort as a people?" -- Lionel Rothschild: quoted by Benjamin D'Israeli in 1844 "There is a juncture to which full awareness inevitably leads. One stands before the abyss and decides how to face the pitiless existential facts of life. Of course, there are no solutions. One has a choice only to be 'resolute,' 'engaged,' courageously defiant, stoically accepting or to, in awe of mystery, place one's trust in the providence of the divine." -- "Love's Executioner" Irvin Yalom "A normal man is done in thirty years. Life brings him nothing new any more. Fortunate are the souls to whom every day of existence is a new birth until their death." -- Otto Rank "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -- President Ronald Reagan (an alternative version?) "There is a principle, which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903 "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth." -- Alexis de Tocqueville. "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." -- Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005 "In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli." -- Howard Zinn, historian and author "Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houes and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism" -- Karl Marx, 1867 "We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." -- Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison, American president from 1809-1817, helped draft the Constitution "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to prove new Guards for their future security. -- Declaration of Independence. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.htm Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father, great American Patriot, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd U.S. President (1776) "Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." -- Robert F. Kennedy 1966 Speech, US Democratic Politician "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -– Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809) "If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." -- Thomas Jefferson "American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other." -- Philip Agee, CIA Diary, p597 "Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." --John Quincy Adams, sixth US President "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time." -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) "The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." -- Cicero "The entire superstructure of Western civilization is based upon the ignorance of the masses." -- Jordan Maxwell "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." -- John 8:32 "....the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus(55-117 A.D.) "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." --Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C. "To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage or of principle." -- Confucius "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation without investigation." -- William Paley (1743-1805). "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- Krishnamurti "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence. An observation by the late Director at his first staff meeting in 1981. This observation reveals the mentality of cynicism which infests the US Federal control structures, and the reality that these structures regard the American people with total contempt. This attitude is the opposite to the noble concept of service to the American people which ought to inspire holders of public office, and therefore represents the epitome of decadence. "When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." -- Dresden James "The antidote of 50 enemies is 1 friend." -- Aristotle "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour." -- Aristotle "The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price." -- C.S. Lewis "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- President Harry S. Truman. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "None are so enslaved as those who call their chains freedom." -- GKD "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 "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." -- Socrates ------------- "Soon every American will be required to register their biological property in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which, will affect our security as charge back for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer being able to work and earn a living They will be our chattels and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwillingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, secured by their pledges They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us profit and they will be none the wiser for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans, and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government by floating leans and debts to the registrants in the forms of benefits and privilges. This will inevitably reap us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud, which we will call 'social insurance' Without realising it every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and we will employ the high office of our dummy corporation to forward this plot against America." -- Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 – March 28, 1938) Architect of the C.F.R. http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=270003 http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/cfr.html ------------- "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley "If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." -- Jacob Hornberger "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" -- Frederic Bastiat "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." -- Thomas Reed "Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. Thus, by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished." -- Civil Servants Year Book, The Organizer 1934 "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it." -- Lenin "It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." -- Patrick Henry "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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 "Seeing what's at the end of one's nose requires constant effort." -- George Orwell "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." -–George Orwell "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -–George Orwell "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." --George Orwell "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." -- George Orwell "If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you." -- Oscar Wilde "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." -- African proverb "What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." -- Bertrand Russell, philosopher - "Roads to Freedom" "Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope." -- Mick Jagger "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." -- John Lennon, before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman. "We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight." -- John Lennon "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." -- Thomas Jefferson "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson "There is no distinctly native American criminal class ...save for Congress." -- Mark Twain "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1904 "The trouble is that the stupid people--who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations--do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper." -- Mark Twain, "License of the Press," speech, 1873 "Freedom never sheeps" -- Me. "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." -— John Maynard Keynes "What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. Boyd et al. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined" -- Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836. " ... the central idea in much of Bastiat’s writings is captured in his essay "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen," which was the last piece he wrote before his death in 1850. He points out that the short-run effects of any action or policy can often be quite different from its longer-run consequences, and that these more remote consequences in fact may be the opposite from what one had hoped for or originally planned." -- Richard Ebeling "The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -— Frederic Bastiat "The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross -- all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another think coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money." -- Jeb Bush to retired Naval Intelligence Officer Al Martin (cited in Bushwhacked, Sept. 2002, by Uri Dowbenko) "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." -- Gandhi "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world." -- Gandhi "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result." -- Gandhi "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi "Every human being is a unique individual. Any attempt to replace the personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." -- Hermann Hesse -- Author (1877--1962) "The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent.... To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations..... The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." -- Thomas Jefferson "The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it." -- Henry Adams "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. "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. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." -- David Rockefeller, Speech given at Bilderberg meeting, 1991 "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn {1918-2008), The Gulag Archipelago - The Book That Changed The World "For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn {1918-2008), The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war; instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air... We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of 'a public debt being a public blessing,' and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself. In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper." -- Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." -- Frederic Bastiat "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1798 "When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815 "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -– Napoleon Bonaparte "Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate, and quickly." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973) "Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count." -- Robert Heinlein "Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." -– Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderbergers meeting. "As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." -- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States "Advertising is legalized lying." -- H. G. Wells "A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy." -- Aldous Huxley "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society." -- Edward Bernays, "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in 'democratic' society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." -- Edward Bernays, assistant to CBS founder William Paley, 'father' of modern public relations (PR), on government propaganda. Author of "Propaganda", 1928. https://archive.org/details/Propaganda1928ByEdwardL.Bernays "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." -- Joseph Goebbels "All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." -- Noam Chomsky "Governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy - their own population." -- Noam Chomsky "These sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered." -- Dr. Noam Chomsky, from What Uncle Sam Really Wants, censored ex parte from WUTK radio's Alternative Nation, Summer 2001 "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient, is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." -- Noam Chomsky "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." -- Noam Chomsky "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." -- Adolf Hitler When asked about who died during captivity, he replied: "Oh, that's easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart." And then, finally, the most important part of all, which you might want to read ten times to yourself: "This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." -- Admiral Stockdale, prisoner of the NVA during the Vietnam War. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -- Professor Bernardo de la Paz, _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, by Robert Heinlien "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " -- Isaac Asimov "I like offending people, because I think that people who get offended should be offended." -- Linus Torvalds "All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not, now and henceforth, dare to tell always only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now." -- R. Buckminster Fuller, "Critical Path", 1981 "A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him." -- Rosellen Brown "Any talk of revolution is just empty words if you don't have the courage to refuse to pay for your own oppression." -- Anon "What history truly records is the inherent irresponsibility of all despotisms and the almost inevitable corruption of all forms of government that are not subject to the control of the people ..." -- Brazilian church statement ==== Right to Arms ==== "If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 29. "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." -- Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775. "What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Elbridge Gerry, Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789. "The great object is, that every man be armed." -- Patrick Henry "That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State..." -- George Mason "Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possesion and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" -- Patrick Henry "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!" -- Patrick Henry "No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen." -- State Gazette (Charleston), September 8, 1788 "While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny." -- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789 "Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that axists among the people, or which they can command; for otherwise this force would be annihilated, on the first exercise of acts of oppression. Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive." -- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787 "And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peacable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peacable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possesions." -- Samuel Adams, Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 "A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves . . . and include all men capable of bearing arms. . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle." -- Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress "... whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..." -- Richard H. Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer 53, 1788 "... the loyalists in the beginning of the late war, who objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness." -- Pennsylvania Gazette, April 23, 1788 "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William S. Smith, 1787 "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson Papers p. 334, 1950 Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable ... the very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good." -- George Washington "It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy. This applies to public as well as private life, to states as well as individuals." -- George Washington, 1785 Read more: www.whatreallyhappened.com http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz4hnV9Y9z0 "The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams "The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." -- Salman Rushdie "Truth needs no law to support it. Truth is self-evident to all. Truth withstands re-examination. Truth survives questions. Throughout history, from Galileo to Zundel, only lies and liars have resorted to the courts to enforce adherence to dogma." -- Michael Rivero "Free people can say 'no'. Free people can refuse demands for their money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the freedom to say 'no'. If someone demands that you do something and you can say 'no' and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied." -- Michael Rivero "The first lie of banking, religion, and government is that one cannot live without them." -- Michael Rivero "Anyone who shirks the labors, sacrifices, and dangers that his people must undergo is a coward. But no less a coward and traitor is the man who betrays the principles of thought to material interests, who, for example, is willing to let the holders of power decide how much is two times two. To sacrifice intellectual integrity, love of truth, the laws and methods of thought to any other interest, even that of the fatherland, is treason. When in the battle of interests and slogans the truth, like the individual, is in danger of being devalued, disfigured, and trampled under foot, our one duty is to resist and to save the truth - or rather, the striving for truth - for that is our highest article of faith." -- Hermann Hesse: Reflections; pg. 5. "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." -- Dante Alighieri "Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground." -- Dante Alighieri "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..." -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 "Most bad government has grown out of too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson "Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (That depends. Violence in self defence can be open and honest.) "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "Don't trust them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn's maxim regarding politicians. "You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not though states, nor betweem classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart..." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Fear is the foundation of most governments." -- John Adams "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." -- George Washington "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army" -- Gen. George Washington, to his troops before the battle of Long Island "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government, they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of an advance auction of the sale of stolen goods." -- H.L. Mencken "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 inevtiably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." -- Henry Louis Mencken "There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible." -- Thomas B. Ross "Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. The world would formant with revolution." -- Theodore Parker "Those who take the most from the table teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful Times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss call ruling difficult for ordinary folk." -- Bertolt Brecht "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." -- James Madison 1822 "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." -- Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1950 "Sometimes I wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or imbeciles who really mean it." -- Mark Twain "The Utopian schemes of leveling (re-distribution of the wealth) and a community of goods (central ownership of the means of production and distribution), are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional." -- Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till 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 Douglass "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." -- John Stuart Mill "The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it." -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) "Society exists to serve the social needs of people, not the productivity needs of capital. Those two needs are in basic conflict - a conflict of class interest." -- David Bacon, Z magazine January 2000. p36 "Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." -- William Jennings Bryan. "I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry "Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd." -- Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer"January 1934 "A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits (of government) is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands." -- James Madison, Federalist Paper #48, 1788. "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." -- Thomas Jefferson on popular sovereignty, letter to W.C. Jarvis, 1820. "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson "Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." -- Thomas Jefferson "If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -- ThomasJefferson "Morons hate it when you call them a moron." -- JD Salinger "... the NSS [National Security State] is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. This allows the bulk of the population to be treated as a mere cost of production." -- Edward Herman, economist and media analyst "...A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrust both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. Therefore, be watchful and sleepless; be brave, be strong; be without fear. This is not the end. Villains will try, again and again and again, to enslave you, until the end of time. It is in your hands to defeat them and to destroy them, whenever or however they appear." -- Taylor Caldwell, "The Devil's Advocate" (1952) - pgs. 332 ... 338 "Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know", the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert A. Heinlein "On the day when you again allow abominable men to confiscate your freedom, your money, your lives, your private property, your manhood and your sacred honor, in the name of 'security' or 'national emergency' you will die, and never again shall you be free. If plotters again destroy your Republic, they will do it by your greedy and ignorant assent, by your disregard of your neighbors' rights, by your apathy and your stupidity. We were brought to the brink of universal death and darkness because we had become that most contemptible of people -- an angerless one. Keep alive and vivid all your righteous anger against traitors, against those who would abrogate your Constitution, against those who would lead you to wars with false slogans and cunning appeals to your patriotism." -- Taylor Caldwell, 'The Devil's Advocate' (1952) pgs. 332 -- 338 "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." -- Unknown, mistakenly attributed to Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels "Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left--which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right--which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man...The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries." -- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics," Playboy, 1969 "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." -- Mark Twain "Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country - hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of." -- Mark Twain "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming "The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. -- Hermann Hesse - Author (1877-1962) Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. -- Unknown. Found on http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free” --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) "In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed; there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free. -- Scott Banister, www.libertarian.org "... government military force, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people; for otherwise this force would be annihilated on the first exercise of oppression. Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. -- Noah Webster, Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787 "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." -- Alexander Tyler "Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." -- Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta. "A couple of generations ago forthrightness was expected, every day, in every thing. It was a measure of maturity. Nobody got away with mushmouth spin, everyone kept to the simple truth as they knew it or they got eased out of adult society and sat at the kid’s table come Thanksgiving. We owe each other our true thoughts in a straightforward way. We don’t have to be right but we do have to be honest. Absent that, we devolve into frillery and artifice. This notion is mostly past tense now, as confirmed by political correctness—social anesthesia if you will. But there are those who carry on, convinced by experience that optimism is warranted only if you see things as they are, or close enough. They carry on not as a heroic mission mind you, it’s just the way they are. We’ll not name names here, they know who they are, it’s a small club." -- Uncle Remus. http://www.woodpilereport.com/ "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -- Thomas Pynchon "All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available." -- Tony Benn, British Labour Party member of Parliament -- CovertAction Quarterly, April / June 2001, p43 "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin "The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamour for such laws if their personal security is threatened." -- Joseph Stalin "People who believe that there is no major world conspiracy which involves a small number of people manipulating humanity through a hierarchical structure of control toward a New World Order, all have one identical factor in common. They have, in actual fact, not looked genuinely into the abundance of well-researched information on world conspiracy to see if there is one!" -- David Icke "Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience..." -- John Locke 1690 2nd Treatise on Government Chapter 19 paragraph 222 "I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-Social movement, especially in Luger's time, achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its successes." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Chapter 6, "War Propaganda" "All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes..." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society." -- Propaganda p. 37 Edward Bernays 1928 "If you refuse to shoot because 'you will lose the moral high ground', evil will trample you and when you are dead there will be no morals left at all." -- Jim Stone "Live by the sword, die by the sword is a catchy phrase losers use to justify their inaction while they were trampled and enslaved by those who used the sword." -- Jim Stone "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Eddie Rickenbacker "One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." -- From The National Educator, K.M. Heaton "Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." --St. Augustine of Hippo "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" -- Henry David Thoreau "Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." -- Heinrich Himmler "State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." -- Fredrich Nietzche "You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." -- Thomas Sowell "If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win." -- Thomas Sowell "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear." -- Thomas Sowell "The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'" --Thomas Sowell "It used to be so much easier to control 1 Million people than to kill them, but today it is definitely easier to kill 1 million people than to control them." -- Zbigniew Bizezinski, Advisor to Obama in an address to the CFR. "The State is a gang of thieves writ large." -- Murray Rothbard "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." -- Robin Williams "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." –- C.S. Lewis "War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself." -- http://alifeofthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/war-is-when-you-government-tells-you-who-the-enemy-is.jpg "There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one." -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." --Alexis de Tocqueville "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." -- New Testament Bible book of Ephesians, Chapter 6 Verse 12. "The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans." -- British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876 "I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful." -- Christopher Hitchens "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." -- Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom "The Technocratic Age is slowly designing an every day more controlled society. The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details". "... it will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world". -- Zbigniew Brzezinski (Illuminati and co-founder of Trilateral Commission) "Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. THAT RIFLE HANGING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER'S COTTAGE, IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE THAT IT STAYS THERE." -- George Orwell. "[T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital... In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression..." -- Christian la Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris) May 1999, (Transatlantic Wheeling and Dealing) "Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense." -- Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. V "Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very federal judges the Constitution was partly intended to restrain were the ones exclusively charged with enforcing it, then 'America possesses only the effigy of a Constitution.' The states, the very constituents of the Union, had to do the enforcing." -- John Taylor (1753-1824) usually called John Taylor of Caroline, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, US Senator, writer, political pamphleteer. "It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it." -- H.G. Wells, in his book, "The New World Order", 1940 "We have reached the stage where satire is prophecy." -- Theodore Dalrymple "Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." -- Theodore Dalrymple "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." -- Buddha "Income taxes are by far the most horrible of the taxes as they punish you for producing and creating wealth. After all, if the purported reasons for sin taxes such as alcohol and cigarette taxes is to de-incentivize people from drinking and smoking, what do you think an income tax does?" -- Robert Taylor "What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, hewill scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." -- Bertrand Russell, philosopher - "Roads to Freedom" --------- About the secret powers: John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) who warned: “A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States who warned: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States who warned: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States who warned: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who warned: “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii who warned: “There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people [are] inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President of the United States remarks in speech given at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961 --------- "In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men -- citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment's notice. Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort." -- John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961 "Politicians are the lowest form of life on Earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians." -- George S. Patton. "I do not believe that man will be 'better' in the future; I do not believe that man is ever better or worse; he is always the same. But at certain times the demonic erupts into mankind not only secretly, among criminals and psychopaths, but openly and on a large scale; it takes on a political life and sweeps whole nations off their feet. -- Hermann Hesse - Author (1877-1962) "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." -- Ayn Rand "Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants and debt is the money of slaves." -- Traditional "If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society—you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right." -- Ayn Rand "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." -- Ayn Rand "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." -- George Orwell, 1984 "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand "The socialist ideal eventually goes viral, and the majority learns to game the system. Everyone is trying to live at the expense of everyone else. In the terminal phase, the failure of the system is disguised under a mountain of lies, hollow promises, and debts. When the stream of other people's money runs out, the system collapses." -- Kevin Brekke "Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics ... It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing." -- Vaclav Havel "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." -- H. L. Mencken "We have reached a point of diminishing returns in our public life. Hardly anything actually needs doing. We may in fact be past that point; not only does nothing much need doing, but we'd benefit if much of what has been done were to be undone." -- John Derbyshire "The hallmark of authoritarian systems is the creation of innumerable, indecipherable laws. Such systems make everyone an un-indicted felon and allow for the exercise of arbitrary government power via selective prosecution." -- Ayn Rand "When you are fed, there are many problems. When you are hungry, there is one problem." -- NoPension at Zero Hedge "Even open-minded people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of [Noam] Chomsky, [Edward] Herman, [Howard] Zinn and [Susan] George on first encountering their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider the evidence again." -- David Edwards "One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms." -- Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840 "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -– Aristotle "Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom." -- Cliff Stoll "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Shari'ya Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians." -- Attributed to Vladimir Putin "When a man who is honestly mistaken learns the truth, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest." -- Abraham Lincoln "If you are what you should be - you will set the world ablaze." -- St Catherine of Siena "By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft." -- John Maynard Keynes (the father of 'Keynesian Economics' which our nation now endures) in his book "THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE" (1920). "I'll stop confusing communism with socialism when you stop confusing your money with my money." --https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5nqef8/this_quote_wins_the_internet_ill_stop_confusing/ "Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief." -- Frantz Fanon "Concensus science is an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of the scoundrel; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the concensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had." -- Michael Crichton, 2003. "A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, arid detectives will descend upon the state." -- predicting what would happen if the federal Congress were to enact a federal Income tax. Richard E. Byrd, Virginia House Speaker, 1910 "A small 10% of the population is good. Another small 10% of the population is bad. And though both of these minorities are smart, the remaining 80% of society is stupid. This makes the battle between good and bad a lopsided one in favor of the bad. The bad can easily prey upon the stupid. The bad can easily convince the stupid they're good. The bad can more or less have the stupid at their complete disposal. The good on the other hand have to fight with one hand tied behind their back. The good don't lie. The good don't cheat. The good have moral qualms taking advantage of the stupid. The good are not only constantly on the defensive, but outnumbered at times 9 to 1." -- Good to be bad, Captain Capitalism. http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/the-case-for-evil.html "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." -- Thomas Jefferson "in questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -- Galileo Galilei "Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth." -- Liu Xiaobo (Chinese dissident, jailed by China's commmunist gov in 2009, won Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, medically murdered in gaol by gov in 2017.) "It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men." -- Henry L. Mencken, 1926. "Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." -- St. Augustine of Hippo "The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth." -- Emma Goldman "To preserve independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816 "Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged." -- Samuel Johnson "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his mind, and his heart is an artist." -- Saint Francis of Assisi "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." --Greek Proverb "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose; for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." -- Mary Pickford "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights depend not on their own conduct but, on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless." -- Lysander Spooner "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." -- Thomas Sowell "People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything." -- Thomas Sowell "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell "The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites." -- Thomas Sowell "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -- Thomas Sowell "Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners." -- George Carlin "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know." -- John F. Kennedy "... of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trail by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny." -- James Monroe Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense." -- Frank Lloyd Wright "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -- John Maynard Keynes (father of Keynesian Economics) "Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." -- William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) Prime Minister of Canada (1935--1948) "You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." -- Bruce Lee "I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." -- Thomas Sowell "No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen." -- State Gazette (Charleston), September 8, 1788 "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993) "We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by [...] morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, 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, American Founding Father and third US President. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- J. Krishnamurti "What truly matters is not which party controls our government but whether our governent is controlled by the people." -- President Donald J. Trump "The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus. "Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien ‘other.’ But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture." -- Pablo Antonio Cuadra "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." -- The Industrial Decalogue from 1916, William J. H. Boetcker "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." -- Friedrich Nietzsche "We ought to have realized that the income tax is utterly incompatible with liberty. It is actually a form of slavery... Under the income tax, the government takes whatever percentage of the earner's income it wants. The income tax, therefore, represents our national surrender to the government of control over all the money we earn." -- Ambassador Alan Keyes, 2000 Presidential candidate "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." -- C.S. Lewis "If liberty dies in the United States, it is destined to die everywhere." -- Walter E. Williams "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -- State of the Union Address: Abraham Lincoln (December 3, 1861) In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists." "Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle (384 BC to 322 BC) "Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends." -- Aristotle "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -- Abraham Lincoln "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." -- Rene Descartes "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." -- Buddha "It's better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream." -- an old episode of Space: 1999. https://youtu.be/f3KK7hoEmIQ?t=2923 48:35 “Did you really think we want those laws to be observed?” asked Dr. Ferris, “We want them broken.” ... “We’re after power and we mean it.” ... “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” ... “But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of lawbreakers — and then you cash in on the guilt.” -- From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. "There is no such thing as bad language: it's just our morals that are fucked." -- Billy Connolly "He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle, is the beginning of all unwisdom." -- Ragnar Redbeard, "Might is Right" "... there is no such thing as a liberal: a liberal is nothing more than a communist with a university degree. If we had taken their advice, right now Hungary would be in the intensive care ward, with the tubes of IMF and Brussels credit attached to every limb. And the fingers on the valves regulating the flow of credit would belong to George Soros." -- Hungarian President Viktor Orbán in his State of the Nation speech, 2020. "Fulfillment in life is killing a bad man and loving a good woman." -- Robert Heinlein "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne "It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail." -- Samuel Adams "The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience." -- David Korten, The Post-Corporate World, p75 "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. -- Maximilien Robespierre "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere." -- Leo Tolstoy "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing, because he could only do a little.” -- Edmund Burke “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” -- Antony the Great "Whoever desires liberty, should understand these vital facts, viz.: 1. That every man who puts money into the hands of a “government” (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will. 2. That those who will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to resist their demands in the future. -- Lysander Spooner "If the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones." -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." -- Frederick Douglass "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection." -- Abraham Lincoln "You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn "Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to asses true information, the facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures, even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union, and show him concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it. Until he receives a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crushes his balls THEN he will understand, but not before that, that's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization." -- Yuri Bezmenov "Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you." -- Yuri Bezmenov "The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." -- Gustave Le Bon "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." -- Dr. Martin Luther King "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -- Ronald Reagan "A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control." -- Jordan Peterson "Very few people in the Soviet Union believed in Communism. We just let idiots take over our country through their use of violence and intimidation." -- Yuri Bezmenov, Former KGB, Soviet Union Defector. "The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly." -- author Robert Anton Wilson "We've been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake-up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems." -- Ben Carson "We cannot leap into World Government in one quick step...This objective requires a process of gradually expanding the range of democratic cooperation...a widening, step by step, stone by stone, of existing relatively narrow zones of stability...The precondition for eventual globalization - genuine globalization - is progressive REGIONALIZATION, because thereby we move toward large, more stable, more cooperative units." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski. October 1995, State of the World Forum, San Francisco (Know your enemy) "The issue of sound money throughout history has been as much a moral issue as an economic or political one. A supply of gold and silver that is by nature limited in supply cannot be inflated, and thus serves as a check on the growth of government. If you want to restrain government, you must restrain the power to create money." -- Ron Paul "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles." -- Dostoievski "If the victims of authoritarian extortion, harassment, surveillance, assault, kidnapping, and murder simply stopped assisting in their own oppression, tyranny would crumble. And if the people went a step further and forcibly resisted, tyranny would collapse even more quickly." -- Larken Rose "It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain "The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will! They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by (the power of) government, keep them in their proper spheres." -- Gouverneur Morris, one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson "It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." -- Thomas Sowell "The two party system is the greatest political evil under our Constitution" -~ John Adams "By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit." -- Aldous Huxley "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing pictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." -- Mark Twain. "A Marxist system is recognized by the fact that it spares criminals and criminalizes political opponents." -- Solzhenitsyn "‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded – and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist." -- Friedrich Hayek (“Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3” published in 1979) "In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski (One of the evil ones. But he was right, only off in the numbers. Now it is easier to kill several billions, via gene-engineered Plandemic followed by mRNA Vax Mandate, than to control them.) "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences." -- Carroll Quigley "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies." -- Carroll Quigley (But how then are the people to effect major policy shifts?) "For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century." -- Carroll Quigley "The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established." -- Carroll Quigley "To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective." -- Carroll Quigley "No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything." -- Carroll Quigley "One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth." -- Thomas Sowell "Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control." -– Lord Acton (1834–1902) "At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P. J. O'Rourke "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." -- Ezra Pound "You will find no one who hates war more than a Warrior. You will find no one who understands there are times one must fight... than a Warrior." -- Auslander Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. And above all, Thou shalt not be a bystander. -- Yehuda Bower "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. You could feel the wind at your back in those days. The sounds of the sea beneath you, and even if you take away the wind and the water it’s still the same. The ship is yours. You can feel her. And the stars are still there." -- Capt. James T. Kirk. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’. (First sentence quoting from "Sea Fever" by John Masefield) "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The more you possess, the more you are possessed." -- Nietzsche "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -- Winston Churchill “He who dares not offend, dares not speak the truth.” -- Voltaire "Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy." -- Thomas Jefferson "The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -- Ray Bradbury “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -- Plato “Once a government commits to the principle of silencing opposition, it has only one way to go, and that’s down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens” -- Harry Truman "It is so easy to be wrong - and to persist in being wrong - when the costs of being wrong are paid by others." -- Thomas Sowell "Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it. In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern blacks did, as antiwar protesters did." -- Howard Zinn, from "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" "Socialism itsef can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word "justice" into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878 in 'Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits' "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination." -- Thomas Sowell "It would never occur to people with academic degrees and professorships that they are both ignorant and incompetent in vast areas of human life, much less that they should keep that in mind before they vent their emotions and wax self-righteous. -- Thomas Sowell "The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion." -- Albert Einstein "You are not supposed to "believe" in science. That is what separates science from religion and politics!" -- Michael Rivero "Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan, January 5, 1967 https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/january-5-1967-inaugural-address-public-ceremony "One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts." -- C. S. Lewis "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." -- Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807 https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.038_0592_0594/?sp=2&st=text#:~:text=Nothing%20can%20now%20be%20believed,that%20polluted%20vehicle. "If your government does not use deadly force to defend your borders but it does use deadly force to collect taxes and enforce its unconstitutional laws, then traitors have taken control of your government." -- Wyatt @austerrewyatt1 "One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with 'hate speech' laws." -- Thomas Sowell "You should never grade evils, for if one is the worst, then you might be tempted to kinship with the least." -- Victor Saltzpyre "The second amendment wasn't written so we could go hunting. It was written so we could shoot at the government if it was ever taken over by tyrants." -- Judge Andrew Napolitano