In my never ending search for enlightenment, I would like to share some of my favorite quotes. Please enjoy!



"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.





"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”
-N.Y. Mayor, John Hylan





"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison (1751-1836), 4th U.S. President and author of the U.S. Constitution





"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here, 1935





"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."
- Howard Zinn, from 'Failure to Quit'


"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell


“In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man – brave – hated – scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.”
- Mark Twain


“When People fear their government, there is tyranny. When government fears the People, there is liberty.”
- Jefferson


"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"
- Thomas Jefferson


"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967



"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967

"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967


In regard to the war in Vietnam: “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” -Richard M. Nixon, 1969

“The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.”
- J. William Fulbright -


“The war in Vietnam poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people...”
- James Reston - “Numbers have dehumanized us.

Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.”
-Dalton Trumbo, Introduction, Johnny Got His Gun, 1970.

But then let's not forget how profitable the war in Vietnam was for companies manufacturing military ordinance.


In regard to the Iraq war:

"It's always other men and other men's children who must sacrifice life and limb for the reasons that make no sense, reasons that are said to be our patriotic duty to fight and die for." Ron Paul, House of Representatives, September 8, 2005 - “Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your troops into a war born of blatant deception makes you a murderer and a war criminal.”
-Jules Carlysle


"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.":
-Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.


"While the Bush administration spends hundreds of billions of dollars on an immoral and unjust war, millions of people across America are without basic healthcare, housing, education and jobs. More than a year after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans remain abandoned by an administration that was criminally negligent of its duty to provide for their well-being. Every day that Congress allows Bush and Cheney to continue to serve sends a clear message to America that they care more about politics than people."
- Reverend Lennox Yearwood, president of Hip Hop Caucus

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

“Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years… Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrance's have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne…”
-Patrick Henry’s speech before Virginia House on March 23, 1775.





“Independence forever.”
- John Adams' last public words as a toast for the celebration - of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence





"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson





"Those who make peaceful resolution impossible make violent resolution inevitable"
-John Kennedy





“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
- John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787





“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”
- John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765





“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”
- John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763





“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”
- John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787





“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”
- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756





“Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.”
- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765





“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”
- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765





“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- John Adams, in Defense of the British Soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre, 1770





“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever.”
- John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, 1775





“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”
- John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, 1780





"Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing"
– Charlie Scheen, Actor





“It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can.”
- John Adams, letter to Count Sarsfield, February 3, 1786





“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
- John Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, December 5, 1777





“Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.”
- John Adams, letter to Mercy Warren, April 16, 1776





“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”
- John Adams, letter to Patrick Henry, June 3, 1776





“Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”
- John Adams, letter to William Cushing, June 9, 1776




“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.”
- John Adams, Nocangul No. 7, 1775

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

“The committee met, discussed the subject, of the Declaration of Independence and then appointed Mr. Jefferson and me to make the draught, I suppose because we were the two first on the list. The subcommittee met. Jefferson proposed to me to make the draught. Adams: I will not. Jefferson:



You should do it. Adams: Oh! no. Jefferson: Why will you not? You ought to do it. Adams: I will not. Jefferson: Why? Adams: Reasons enough. Jefferson: What can be your reasons? Adams: Reason first -- You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second -- I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular.


You are very much otherwise. Reason third -- You can write ten times better than I can. Jefferson: Well if you are decided, I will do as well as I can. Adams: Very well. When you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting.”
- John Adams, on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence





“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.”
- John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772





“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" ... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference.”
- John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775


“Judges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776



“A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection;



and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary. But no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people.



In fine, the people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people;



and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”
- John Adams, Article VII, Massachusetts Constitution


“That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangements of the powers of society, or, in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of republics.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, and both should be checks upon that.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.”
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776


“I have accepted a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and the ruin of our children. I give you this warning, that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”
- John Adams, to Abigail Adams, 1770


“What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.”

- Abigail Adams, letter to John Quincy Adams, November 20, 1783


“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”
- Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749


“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775


“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775


“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”
- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

“Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.”
- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, April 16, 1776


“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779


“What a glorious morning this is!”
- Samuel Adams, to John Hancock at the Battle of Lexington, 1775


History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.


These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.”
- Benjamin Franklin


“I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
- Benjamin Franklin


“No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.”
- Benjamin Franklin and George Whaley, Principles of Trade, 1774


“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
- Benjamin Franklin, (attributed) at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776


“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Advice to Young Tradesman, 1748


“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.”
- Benjamin Franklin, An Address to the Public, November, 1789


“Human Felicity is produced not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771


“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771


“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771


“This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employed they are best contented. For on the Days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily;


but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, &c. and in continual ill-humor.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771


“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, 1774


“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”
- Benjamin Franklin, from his writings, 1758


“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759


“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Benjamin Vaughn, March 14, 1783


“Repeal that welfare law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept;


industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Collinson, 1753



“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, November 13, 1789


“Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to John Alleyne, 1768


“It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Samuel Cooper, May 1, 1777


“Every Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.”
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to William Straham, 1784


“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer.


And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, 1766


“It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Political Observations


“A penny saved is twopence clear.”

- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


“Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.”

- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

signal to noise ratio.......nobody is gonna read all that shit

ITS DISTRACTING

a tactic.....YOU ARE BUSTED CUNT

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If you don't KNOW where you come from...you WILL wind up going nowhere.

That goes for Ideas, institutions as well as individuals :-I

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

BUSTED CUNT.......are you with ARE U FAKE

GET REAL

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If you don't KNOW where you come from...you WILL wind up going nowhere.

That goes for Ideas, institutions as well as individuals :-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUncnWxjUXM
^You CAN Handle The Truth - TRANCE Form America - 3of7

PSI TECH INVESTIGATIONS and LAW ENFORCEMENT

~777~ "THE AWACS ANGEL CODE"

Alright nutbag....you are on the ignore list......

BTW:

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"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom, that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they have left."

I wish you would't use all those ugly words, Mr ONEWHITEDUCK. I've been reading on here for a while and sometimes you seem real nice.

Fuckin' liar.

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THAT explains it!!!



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