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%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Mind Your Business"//%Author%U.S. Treasury//%Source%The very first motto on a U.S. Minted Coin//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Congress,Constitution,Defense,Individual Rights//%quote%"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense..."//%Author%Alexander Hamilton//%Source%The Federalist Papers, No. 28//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Government,Law,Rights,Trust//%quote%"A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust."//%Author%James Madison//%Source%Federalist Papers//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Conscience,Constitution,Government,Rights//%quote%"Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments... The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people."//%Author%Fisher Ames//%Who%of Massachusetts//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Defense,Militia,Security,Tyranny//%quote%"... By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important."//%Author%John F. Kennedy//%Source%(Ref: AR 12-73 p.14)//%end%
%start%%cat=Liberty,History//%quote%"Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books."//%Author%Jimmy Stewart//%Source%in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Government,Privacy,Rights//%quote%"They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."//%Author%Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis//%Source%1928//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Defense,Government,Usurpation//%quote%"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. ... The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures."//%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Congress,Militia//%quote%"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?"//%Author%Patrick Henry//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Militia,Peace,War//%quote%"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ... The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."//%Author%Alexander Hamilton//%Source%the Federalist Papers at 184-8//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,History,Individual Rights,Justice,Peace//%quote%"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner."//%Source%Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session ( February 1982 )//%end%
%start%%cat=Corruption,Fear,Oppression,Property,Responsibility//%quote%Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive. He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!//%Author%W. Vaughn Elllsworth//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Law,Responsibility//%quote%"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it."//%Author%Judge Learned Hand//%end%
%start%%cat=Globalism,Peace,Propaganda,UN//%quote%"One would think by listening to all the propaganda about the United Nations that they are some sort of benevolent, peaceful organization. Never in the history of the United Nations has it stood for anything but killing and violence. They have never kept peace anywhere on this globe. Their sole function is to replace the U.S. military - dissolve all four branches of our armed forces. Their allegiance is only to the United Nations Charter which does not recognize the U.S. Constitution. This body is made up almost exclusively of communists and leaders of the bloodiest regimes on this globe. Their history and operating agenda is apparent to anyone who takes the time to sincerely and with an open mind, research the facts of this organization, separating truth from myth. Bilderberger participants ( another group committed to one-world domination) in 1992 called for "conditioning the public to accept the idea of a U.N. army that could, by force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation."//%Author%Paul Harvey//%Source%Sept.24, 1993//%end%
%start%%cat=NWO//%quote%"NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order."//%Author%Henry Kissinger//%Source%Aug.1993, Los Angeles Times Syndicate//%end%
%start%%cat=NWO//%quote%"GATT represents the New World Order in trade."//%Author%Mickey Kantor//%Source%Sept. 18, 1994//%end%
%start%%cat=NWO//%quote%"I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes."//%Author%Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA)//%Source%June 4, 1994, speaking to the Associated Press//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,NWO//%quote%"...and by the way, Mr.Speaker, the Second Amendment is not for killing little ducks and leaving Huey and Dewey and Louie without an aunt and uncle. It's for hunting politicians, like in Grozny, and in the colonies in 1776, or when they take your independence away."//%Author%Robert Dornan//%Who%US Congressman (CA-R)//%Source%January 25, 1994, responding to Bill Clinton's "State of the Union" speech//%end%
%start%%cat=NWO//%quote%"Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere." And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? "I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word" for "rejecting NAFTA."//%Author%David Rockefeller//%Source%Wall Street Journal//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Law,Justice//%quote%"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."//%Author%Marbury vs.Madison//%Source%5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803)//%end%

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%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or
the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be
subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person
within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any
rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution
and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action
at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for
redress."//%Author%42 USC S 1983://%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"An Act of Congress repugnant to the Constitution is not law.
When the Constitution and an act of Congress are in conflict,
the Constitution must govern the case to which both apply.
Congress cannot confer on this court any original
jurisdiction. The powers of the legislature are defined and
limited; and those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten
is the reason the Constitution was written."//%Author%Marbury vs. Madison//%end%

%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."//%Author%Martin Luther King//%end%

%start%%cat=Money//%quote%I heartily accept the motto,
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"That government is best which governs least;"
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and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this,
which I also believe,
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"That government is best which governs not at all;"
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and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of
government which they will have.
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//%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"//%end%
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They [the Marxists] maintain that only a dictatorship --
their dictatorship, of course -- can create the will of the
people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have
any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget
only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be
created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on
the part of the people and free organization of the toiling
masses from the bottom up.
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//%Author%Mikhail A. Bakunin//%Source%_Statism and Anarchism_//%end%

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The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
Privileges and Immunities of Citizens of the several
States.//%Author%United States Constitution//%Source%Art. IV, sect. 2, paragraph. [In other words, if your State acknowledges a right, then wherever you travel, no other state may deny you that right.]//%end%

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". . . by the previous ruling [Brushaber] it was settled that
the provisions of the Sixteenth Amendment CONFERRED NO NEW
POWER OF TAXATION BUT SIMPLY PROHIBITED the previous complete
and plenary power of INCOME TAXATION possessed by Congress
from the begining FROM BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE CATEGORY OF
INDIRECT TAXATION TO WHICH IT INHERENTLY BELONGED. . . ."
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//%Author%Stanton v. Baltic Milng Co.//%Source%240 U.S. at 112 (1916---//%end%

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"..the house of World Order will have to be built from the
bottom up rather than the top down... an end run around
[American] sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will
accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
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April, 1974 CFRs "Foreign Affairs,"
//%Author%Richard N. Gardner article//%Source%"The
Hard Road to World Order"//%end%
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"Much of the contemporary crime that concerns Americans is in
poor black neighborhoods, and a case could perhaps be made
that greater firearms restrictions might alleviate this
tragedy. But another, perhaps stronger, case can be made that
a society with a dismal record of protecting a people has a
dubious claim on the right to disarm them. Perhaps a
re-examination of this history can lead us to a modern
realization of what the framers of the Second Amendment
understood: that it is unwise to place the means of
protection totally in the hands of the state, and that
self-defense is also a civil right."
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//%Author%Robert Cottrol//%Who%professor of law at
Rutgers (Phd from Yale, JD from
Georgetown); Raymond Diamond,
professor of law at Tulane (JD, Yale)//%end%
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//%Author%10 USC Sec. 311 01/03/95 EXPCITE TITLE 10 Subtitle A PART I
CHAPTER 13 Sec. 311. (a)
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The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied
males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in
section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or
who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens
of the United States and of female citizens of the United
States who are members of the National Guard. . (b) The
classes of the militia are
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(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National
Guard and the Naval Militia; and
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(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of
the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the
Naval Militia.
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SOURCE (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 14; Sept. 2,
1958, Pub. L. 85-861, Sec. 1(7), 72 Stat. 1439; Nov. 30,
1993, Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title V, Sec. 524(a), 107
Stat. 1656.)



%start%%cat=Militia//%quote%"The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. .... all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided."
//%Author%Richard Henry Lee//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Sovereignty//%quote%"The indissoluble link of union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation is, after all, not is the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come, (may Heaven avert it) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interest shall fester into hatred, the bands of political associations will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; AND FAR BETTER WILL IT BE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE DISUNITED STATES TO PART IN FRIENDHIP FROM EACH OTHER, THAN TO BE HELD TOGETHER BY CONSTRAINT. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be re-united by the law of political gravitation to the centre."//%Author%John Quincy Adams//%end%
%start%%cat=Socialism//%quote%"Though most of the muck-rakers were moderate in temper and aim, a few of them were Socialists. Upton Sinclair ran unsuccessfully for office several times as a Socialist, and he nearly was elected governor of California in 1934, when he managed to win the Democratic nomination. Other Socialist muck-rakers include Charles Edward Russell, who ran for mayor of NYC on the Socialist ticket in 1913, and Gustavus Myers." //%Author%???//%end%
%start%%cat=Vote//%quote%"In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate."//%Author%Ben H. Bagdikian//%Source%1982//%end%
%start%%cat=Slavery,Socialism//%quote%"All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?//%Author%Herbert Spencer//%Source%The Man Versus the State -1884//%end%
%start%%cat=Socialism//%quote%"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights..."//%Author%Ayn Rand//%Source%_The Virtue of Selfishness_ 1964//%end%
%start%%cat=Fascism,Nazi,Society,Socialism//%quote%"Society's needs come before the individual's needs."//%Author%Adolf Hitler//%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value."//%Author%Adolf Hitler//%Source%to Reichstag 1937-01-30 as translated by Norman H. Baynes//%end%
%start%%cat=Fascism,Socialism//%quote%"The difference between [socialism & fascism] is superficial & purely formal, but it is significant psychologically; it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (& of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, &, therefore, the abolition of private property... Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use." //%Author%???//%end%
%start%%cat=Socialism,Taxation//%quote%"Who could impose such socialistic confiscatory rates?"//%Author%William F. Borah//%Source%denying the possibility that income tax could ever exceed 9%//%end%
%start%%cat=Socialism,Taxation//%quote%"One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system." //%Author%???//%end%
%start%%cat=Justice//%quote%"We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been."//%Author%Solon//%Who%(594 B.C.)//%Source%when asked how social justice could be achieved in Athens //%end%
%start%%cat=Justice//%quote%"National injustice is the surest road to national downfall."//%Author%William E. Gladstone//%Who%(1809-1898) English statesman//%end%
%start%%cat=Free Thought,Independence,Individualism//%quote%"Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster."//%Author%William Randolph Hearst//%Who%(1863-1951) American newspaper publisher.//%end%
%start%%cat=Law,Sovereignty//%quote%"The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi-sovereign that can be identified."//%Author%J. Holmes//%Source%Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917) 244 US 205, 222, 61 LEd 1086, 1101, 37 S Ct 524//%end%
%start%%cat=Republic//%quote%"A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over."//%Author%Earl Warren//%Source%"A Republic, If You Can Keep It", p 13//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Republic,Respect,Rights//%quote%"The only protection of every citizen from such deprivation of rights is a strict adherence to the Bill of Rights by everyone for everyone. This should be self-evident but the danger of erosion of rights stems largely from the fact that so many citizens of the majority, who have never been deprived of any of these rights, find it difficult to understand what the deprivation of them means in the lives of others."//%Author%Earl Warren//%Source%"A Republic, If You Can Keep It", p. 48//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Security//%quote%"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression."//%Author%James Madison//%end%
%start%%cat=Election,Virtue//%quote%"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look at his character. It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, men of truth, hating covetousness. It is to the neglect of this rule that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, speculations and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves; which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."//%Author%Noah Webster//%end%

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"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?"
//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%Remarks to the House, Dec. 9, 1814, _Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster_, Vol. 14, p. 61, published 1903. As quoted in _Respectfully Quoted: a Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service_, Library of Congress, 1989//%end%
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"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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
//%Author%Abraham Lincoln//%Source%1st Inaugral Address March 4, 1861//%end%


%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union. "//%Author%Alexander Hamilton//%end%
%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies."//%Author%Oliver Ellsworth//%end%
%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"The States acceded to the Union."//%Author%Benjamin Franklin//%Source%_Franklin Works_, Vol V, p.409//%end%
%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"The States are nations."//%Author%Daniel Webster//%end%
%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name."//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%U.S.Senate, 2/15/1883//%end%
%start%%cat=Sovereignty//%quote%"Militia: The body of citizens in a state, enrolled for discipline as a military force, but not engaged in actual service except in emergencies, as distinguished from regular troops or a standing army."//%Author%Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition//%Source%Black's Law Dictionary, third edition, published in 1933. See Ex parte McCants, 39 Ala. 112; Worth v. Craven County, 118 N.C. 112, 24 S.E. 778; Brown v. Newark, 29 N.J. Law, 238; Story v. Perkins (D.C.) 243 F. 997, 999.//%end%


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For those in the dark as to when lethal force can and cannot be used, some plain writing from the 17th century.

Nothing is to be accounted hostile force but where it leaves not the remedy of such an appeal [to the law], and it is such force alone that puts him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it lawful to resist him.

A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse on the highway, when perhaps I have not 12 pennies in my pocket.

This man I may lawfully kill.

To another I deliver 100 pounds to hold only whilst I alight, which he refuses to restore to me when I am got up again, but draws his sword to defend the possession of it by force. I endeavour to retake it.

The mischief this man does me is a hundred, or possibly a thousand times more than the other perhaps intended me (whom I killed before he really did me any); and yet I might lawfully kill the one and cannot so much as hurt the other lawfully.

The reason whereof is plain to see; because the one using force which threatened my life, I could not have time to appeal to the law to secure it, and when it was gone it was too late to appeal.

The law could not restore life to my dead carcass.

The loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the law of Nature gave me a right to destroy him who had put himself into a state of war with me and threatened my destruction.

But in the other case, my life not being in danger, I might Nature gave me a right to destroy him who had put himself into a state of war with me and threatened my destruction.

But in the other case, my life not being in danger, I might have the benefit of appealing to the law, and have reparation for my 100 pounds in that way.

//%Author%John Locke//%Source%"An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government", Chapter 18 "Of Tyranny", #207, originally published in England, 1690.//%end%



%start%%cat=UN//%quote%In the Gulf, we saw the United Nations playing the role dreamed of by its founders, with the world's leading nations orchestrating and sanctioning collective action against aggression.
//%Author%George H.W. Bush//%Source%August 1991 National Security Strategy of the United States//%end%

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The army of tomorrow is neither the Red Army nor the U.S. Army.... If there is to be peace, it will be secured by a multinational force that monitors cease-fires ... and protects human rights. Blue-helmeted United Nations peacekeepers are doing just that....
//%Author%//%Source%"The Unsung New World Army" New York Times editorial, May 11,1992//%end%
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[I]t is time for the United States to lead in the creation of a modest U.N. rapid-deployment force.
//%Author%Republican Congressman James A. Leach//%Source%Foreign Affairs, Summer 1992//%end%
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The United States should strongly support efforts to expand the U.N. peacekeeping role.
//%Author%Democratic Congressman Lee H. Hamilton//%Source%Foreign Affairs, Summer 1992//%end%
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//%Author%The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee:

I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands.

He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war.

He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath.

He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...

I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.

I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.

I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be politically incorrect.

I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.

It's the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.

It's the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.

It's the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.

It's the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen." //%end%
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"It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive."
//%Author%Walt Rostow//%Who%CFR member and United Nations spokesman//%end%


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There is power only in principles: they alone are a beacon light for men's minds, a rallying point for convictions gone astray.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 113//%end%
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I do not call upon the state to compel everyone to accept my opinion, but, rather, not to force me to accept anybody else's opinion.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 276//%end%
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If political economy attains to the insight that men's interests are harmonious, it does so because it does not stop, as socialism does, at the immediate consequences of phenomena, but goes on to their eventual and ultimate effects.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 138//%end%
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Each advance over Nature, after first rewarding the initiative of a few men, soon becomes, by the operation of the law of competition, the gratuitous and common heritage of all mankind.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Harmonies, 416//%end%
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Self-interest is that indomitable individualistic force within us that urges us on to progress and discovery, but at the same time disposes us to monopolize our discoveries. Competition is that no less indomitable humanitarian force that wrest progress, as fast as it is made, from the hands of the individual and places it at the disposal of all mankind.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Harmonies, 289//%end%
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Capital has from the beginning of time worked to free men from the yoke of ignorance, want, and tyranny. To frighten away capital is to rivet a triple chain around the arms of the human race.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Harmonies, 190//%end%
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Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action - this is what is meant by liberty.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 109//%end%
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Thanks to the nonintervention of the state in private affairs, wants and satisfactions would develop in their natural order. We should not see poor families seeking instruction in literature before they have bread. We should not see the city being populated at the expense of the country, or the country at the expense of the city. We should not see those great displacements of capital, of labor, and of population which are provoked by legislative measures, displacements that render the very sources of existence so uncertain and precarious, and thereby add so greatly to the responsibilities of the government.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 53//%end%
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Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice, under the rule of right, under the influence of liberty, security, stability, and responsibility, that every man will attain to the full worth and dignity of his being, and that mankind will achieve, in a calm and orderly way - slowly, no doubt, but surely - the progress to which it is destined.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 94//%end%
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No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 56//%end%
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It is not because men have passed laws that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property already exist that men make laws.
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Law is the organization of the natural right to legitimate self - defense; it is the substitution of collective force for individual forces, to act in the sphere in which they have the right to act, to do what they have the right to do: to guarantee security of person, liberty, and property rights, to cause JUSTICE to reign over all.
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Government acts only by the intervention of force; hence, its action is legitimate only where the intervention of force is itself legitimate.
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A man who would consider himself a bandit if, pistol in hand, he prevented me from carrying out a transaction that was in conformity with my interests has no scruples in working and voting for a law that replaces his private force with the public force and subjects me, at my own expense, to the same unjust restriction.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Harmonies, 463//%end%
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What must be the consequence of all this intervention?... Capital, under the impact of such a doctrine, will hide, flee, be destroyed. And what will become, then, of the workers, those workers for whom you profess an affection so deep and sincere, but so unenlightened? Will they be better fed when agricultural production is stopped? Will they be better dressed when no one dares to build a factory? Will they have more employment when capital will have disappeared?
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 107//%end%
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Where, at such a time, is the bold speculator who would dare set up a factory or engage in an enterprise?...What man in the whole country has the least knowledge of the position in which the law will forcibly place him and his line of work tomorrow? And, under such conditions, who can or will undertake anything?
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Illegal plunder fills everyone with aversion; it turns against itself all the forces of public opinion and puts them on the side of justice. Legal plunder, on the contrary, is perpetrated without troubling the conscience, and this cannot fail to weaken the moral fiber of a nation.
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See whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay. It is not only an iniquity in itself; it is a fertile source of iniquity, because it invites reprisals, and if you do not take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system.
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Plunderers conform to the Malthusian law: they multiply with the means of existence; and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes. Seek as one will, there is no substitute for an informed and enlightened public opinion. It is the only remedy.
//%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Sophisms, 139//%end%
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"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a REPUBLICAN form of governemnt."
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
//%Author%George Bernard Shaw//%Source%Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903//%end%
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
//%Author%MILTON, JOHN 1608-1674//%Source%The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1648-9)//%end%
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A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where Freedom slowly broadens down
- From precedent to precedent.
//%Author%TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD 1809-1892//%Source%'You ask me, why' (1833), iii//%end%
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For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!

There is but one task for all--
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?

//%Author%Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936//%Source%For All We Have and Are//%end%
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
//%Author%Edward Gibbon 1737-1794//%Source%The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88), ch.3//%end%
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Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
//%Author%DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN 1795-1820//%Source%The American Flag, New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819. Attr. also to Fitz-Greene Halleck//%end%
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(Governments derive)....."their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing 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 provide mew Guards for their future security."//%Author%The Declaration of Independence//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"The Hell with the Constitution!"//%Author%Michael Roos//%Who%ex-Assemblyman//Source%when asked if his "Assault Weapon" ban was constitutional//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"We are for Socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."//%Author%Roger Baldwin//%Who%ACLU Founder//%Source%"Trial and Error" by George Grant//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"In fact, the take-no-prisoners climate fostered by the NRA has even led its hard-core adherents to attack our organization and to threaten me personally! Agents of the gun lobby have sent false information to some of our members. They've encouraged gun nuts to tie up our phone lines, and filed nuisance complaints about us with the Federal Election Commission."//%Author%Sarah Brady//%Source%Letter of October 18, 1991//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"My own cops on the street are outgunned by these assault weapons. We NEED the Brady Bill!"//%Author%Chief Steven Bishop//%Who%Kansas City, MO Police Dept.//%Source%testimony before the Schumer committee, April, 1991//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"... gun control advocates who want to square their policy preferences with the Constitution should squarely face the need to deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing amendment."//%Author%George Wil//%Source%March 21, 1991//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote%"Nice guys who own guns aren't nice guys."//%Author%Ed Koch//%Who%Mayor of New York City//%end%
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"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."
//%Author%Heinrich Himmler//%end%
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."//%Author%SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz//%Source%March, 1933.//%end%
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"This Year Will Go Down In History. For The First Time, A Civilized Nation Has Full Gun Registration! Our Streets Will Be Safer, Our Police More Efficient, And The World Will Follow Our Lead Into The Future!"//%Author%Adolph Hitler//%Source%1935, 'Berlin Daily' (Loose English Translation), April 15th, 1935, Page 3 Article 2, by Einleitung Von Eberhard Beckmann, "Abschied vom Hessenland!"//%end%
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"We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest ... So then we'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time .... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of guns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."//%Author%Pete Shields//%Who%Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc.//%Source%"The New Yorker", July 26, 1976//%end%

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"Disperse you Rebels - Damn you, throw down your Arms and disperse."//%Author%Maj. John Pitcairn//%Who%(British Army)//%Source%Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775//%end%
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"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."//%Author%//%Source%Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer" January 1934.//%end%
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"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both."//%Author%William Rawle//%Source%A View of the Constitution 125-6 (2nd ed. 1829)//%end%
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"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights."
//%Author%Joseph Story//%Source%Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States before the Adoption of the Constitution [Boston, 1833]//%end%
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"...if raised, whether they could subdue a Nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their hands?"//%Author%Delegate Sedgwick//%Source%during the Massachusetts Convention, rhetorically asking if an oppressive standing army could prevail, Johnathan Elliot, ed., Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol.2 at 97 (2d ed., 1888)//%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."//%Author%Zachariah Johnson//%Source%3 Elliot, Debates at 646//%end%
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"Our goal at HCI is simple: to stop the out of control gun violence that is claiming American lives in record numbers. We propose to do this through a comprehensive plan of legislative action that includes the licensing of handgun owners, registration of handgun purchases, and mandatory safety training."//%Author%???//%end%
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"... By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important." //%Author%???//%Source%
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"What would things have been like (in Russia) if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, pailing with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?"
//%Author%Alexander Solzhenitsyn//%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"If we choose to violate the rights of the innocent in order to discover and act against the guilty, then we have transformed our country into a police state and abandoned one of the fundamental tenets of a free society. In order to win the war on drugs, we must not sacrifice the life of the constitution in the battle."//%Author%H. Lee Sarokin//%Who%US District Judge //%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%We must recollect...what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay, for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.//%Author%William Pitt//%Who%(1759-1806)//%Source%House of Commons, 22 July 1803//%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.//%Author%John Dryden//%Who%(1631-1700)//%end%

%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"For experience has already shown that the impeachment...is not even a scarecrow...The constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass."//%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source%(Letter to Spencer Roane, Poplar Forest, September 6, 1819). THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 89 (Dumbauld Ed. 1955).//%end%
%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." //%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source%Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950]//%end%
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...We do then most solemnly, before God and the world declare that, regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with the perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us, to preserve that liberty which He committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties."
//%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source%Ford ed., (1775)//%end%
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"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." "Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own self defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession 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?"//%Author%Patrick Henry//%Source%in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia,...taken in shorthand by David Robertson of Petersburg, at 271, 275 2d ed. Richmond, 1805. Also 3 Elliot, Debates at 386//%end%
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"Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all? You read of a riot act in a country which is called one of the freest in the world, where a few neighbors can not assemble without the risk of being shot by a hired soldiery, the engines of despotism. We may see such an act in America." //%Author%Patrick Henry//%Source%(The World's Famous Orations, vol 1, Pg. 67-76).//%end%
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"The right of the people to keep (to have and to hold, openly or concealed) and bear (carry, transport and use) firearms (weapons of self-defense, including the handgun which predated the rifle and has existed for self-defense since the 1500's) shall not be infringed (invalidated, limited, abridged). A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country ..."
//%Author%James Madison//%end%


%start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."//%Author%Abraham Lincoln//%end%


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