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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% DONE above %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, . "That government is best which governs least;" . 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, . "That government is best which governs not at all;" . and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. . //%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% 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. . //%Author%Mikhail A. Bakunin//%Source%_Statism and Anarchism_//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% . 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% ". . . 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. . . ." . //%Author%Stanton v. Baltic Milng Co.//%Source%240 U.S. at 112 (1916---//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% "..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." . April, 1974 CFRs "Foreign Affairs," //%Author%Richard N. Gardner article//%Source%"The Hard Road to World Order"//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% "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." . //%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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% //%Author%10 USC Sec. 311 01/03/95 EXPCITE TITLE 10 Subtitle A PART I CHAPTER 13 Sec. 311. (a) . 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 . (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and . (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia. . 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% Done --- above %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% ---------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 51//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 52//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Government acts only by the intervention of force; hence, its action is legitimate only where the intervention of force is itself legitimate. //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Harmonies, 456//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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? //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 144//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 134//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. //%Author%Frederic Bastiat//%Source%Essays, 61//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------- Begin Quotes On Democracy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a REPUBLICAN form of governemnt." //%Author%Constitution of the United States//%Source%Art. IV, 1789//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. //%Author%George Bernard Shaw//%Source%Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Flag//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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% %start%%cat=Government,Independence//%quote% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (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% %start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Banking//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%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%???//%Source% (Ref: AR 12-73 p.14)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %start%%cat=Arms,Guns,Consitution//%quote%"A free people ought..to be armed..."//%Author%George Washington//%Source%speech of January 7, 1790//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% Term "the people" as used in Fourth Amendment refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with the United States to be considered part of community. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4. //%Author%U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez//%Source%110 S.Ct. 1056, 494 U.S. 259, 108 L.Ed.2d 222, 58 U.S.L.W. 4263//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Guns,Consitution//%quote%The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government. //%Author%U.S. v. Cruikshank//%Source%92 U.S. 542, 2 Otto 542, 23 L.Ed. 588 (1875)//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Guns,Consitution//%quote%For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution."//%Author%Bliss vs. Commonwealth//%Source%12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822)//%end% %start%%cat=Consitution,IRS,Justice,Law,Taxation//%quote%"Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents. Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse than the individual who relies upon his Constitutional rights."//%Author%Observation by a U.S. Court of Appeals//%Source%U.S. vs. Dickerson, 413 F. 2d., 1111//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Disarmament,Guns,Consitution,Military,Militia,Power//%quote%"Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; otherwise, this force would be annihilated on 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 pretence, raised in the United States." //%Author%Noah Webster//%Source%in `An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution', 1787, a pamphlet aimed at swaying Pennsylvania toward ratification, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at 56(New York, 1888))//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Guns,Consitution,Militia//%quote%"THE POWERS OF THE SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY....Who are the militia? are they not ourselves? ... Congress have no power to disarm the militia....Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth right of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of the federal or state governements, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.//%Author%Tench Coxe//%Source%Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788 Gazette February 20,1788//%end% %start%%cat=Freedom,God//%quote%The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!//%Author%Rev. William Lisle Bowles//%Who%1762-1850//%Source%Edmund Burke, l.78//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me. Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains. Lord, put beneath Thy special care One-eighty-nine Cadogan Square. //%Author%SIR JOHN BETJEMAN//%Who%1906//%Source%In Westminster Abbey//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! //%Author%DANIEL WEBSTER//%Source%Second Speech in the Senate on Foot's Resolution, 26 Jan. 1830.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. //%Author%WILLIAM PITT//%Who%EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778//%Source%House of Commons, 14 Jan. 1766//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.//%Author%DAVID HUME//%Source%Essays (1741-2). Of Civil Liberty//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.//%Author%THOMAS HOBBES//%Source%Leviathan (1651), pt.ii, ch.19//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thou wilt show my head to the people: it is worth showing.//%Author%DANTON//%Who%1759-1794//%Source%Speech to the Legislative Committee of General Defence, 5 Apr. 1794. Carlyle, French Revolution, bk.VI, ch.2//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applaud us when we run; console us when we fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on -- for God's sake, let us pass on! Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.//%Author%EDMUND BURKE//%Source%Speech at Bristol previous to the Election, 1780//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We wish, in a word, equality--equality in fact as corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.//%Author%MICHAEL A. BAKUNIN//%Source%Declaration signed by forty-seven anarchists on trial after the failure of their uprising at Lyons in 1870. See J. Morrison Davidson, The Old Order and the New, 1890.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse. Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them. Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave, and not taunting. All rising to great place is by a winding stair.//%Author%Sir FRANCIS BACON//%Source%Essays. 11. Of Great Place//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Defense//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense..." //%Author%John Adams//%Source%A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788)//%end% %start%%cat=Militia//%quote%"It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered as the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen."//%Author%John Dewitt//%end% %start%%cat=Arms,Militia//%quote%"Have we no means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of what service would the militia be to you when, most probably, you will not have a single musket in the state? For, as arms are to be provided by Congress, they may or may not provide them." //%Author%Patrick Henry//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"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//%Who%during the Massachusetts Convention, rhetorically asking if an oppressive standing army could prevail//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."//%Author%George Washington//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"....The militia of this country must be considered as the palladium of our security, and the first effectual resort in case of hostility. It is essential, therefore, that the same system should pervade the whole; that the formation and discipline of the militia of the continent should be absolutely uniform, and that the same species of arms, accoutrements, and military apparatus should be introduced in very part of the United States. No one, who has not learned it from experience, can conceive the difficulty, expense, and confusion, which results from a contrary system, or the vague arrangements which have hitherto prevailed..." //%Author%George Washington//%Source%From "Circular Letter To The Governors Of All The States On Disbanding The Army," June 8th, 1783, George Washington.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."//%Author%Marbury vs. Madison//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them." //%Author%Miranda vs. Arizona//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be."//%Author%Westbrook v. Mihaly//%Source%2 C3d 756//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it."//%Author%???//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Our rejection of the request for jury nullification doctrine is a recognition that there are times when logic is not the only or even best guide to sound conduct of government."//%Author%US v. Dougherty//%Source%473 F.2d 1113 (C.A.D.C., 1972) (Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, not the S.Ct.)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"But if anti-gun advocates feel prohibiting or confiscating upward of 70 million handguns is justified to save 13 young children's lives, why does saving 381 annually not justify banning swimming pools, or at least prohibiting their proliferation? Is it possible that anti-gun fanatics are motivated more by hatred of guns and their owners than by saving lives?"//%Author%Don B. Kates, Jr.//%Source%"Gun Accidents"//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin quote from The Resister The Resister is a response to the altruistic cannibalism which is consuming the principle of inalienable individual rights upon which this nation was founded and which have been served up in sacrifice to the mob god of democracy, the minority god of tribalism, the nature god of environmentalism, the slave god of collectivism, and the statist god of socialism. Do you want to know who we are? We are the individuals who conceive the ideas the cretinous mob calls "the team effort." We are the individuals whose excellence is subverted by the racist policy of "equal opportunity." We are the independent, innovative, and creative who have been enslaved to serve the "greater good." Without us you would still be prying roots out of the ground with a pointed stick.... Every whim based, undefined, un-judicable law it passes; every unconstitutional gang of armed badge wielding thugs it deploys; every unconstitutional agency it creates; every incomprehensible special interest regulation it mandates; every dime extorted through taxation and redistributed to the incompetent and undeserving; every American life lost in some altruistic war, humanitarian assistance, or peacekeeping operation, demonstrates the illegitimacy of the federal government. The federal government is not "of the people," it is the instrument of pull-peddlers. It is not "by the people," it is the toady of special interests. It is not "for the people," it is the exercise of force for the sake of force. Pass laws against us; we will not obey. Regulate our activities; we will not comply. Legislate our behavior; we will not consent. We are free men. We will not be subjugated. We have the guns to prove it. End quote from The Resister//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Are rights G-d given? The real test of the source of the right comes if we remove man from the equation. Do you have that right, if there is no man to give or take it away? The obvious answer to that is yes you have a right to do as you please, if there is no one to restrict it. Then we are reduced to which rights we wish to restrict when we have to dwell together and which rights we wish to guard against infringement. Whether the RTKBA is G-d given or natural is probably an agrument more suitable for a religious echo, but simple observation shows that each man has the right unless others choose to infringe upon it. And if there is no G-d to give it, simple logic should force us to ask, Who then comes to take it away?//%Author%Tom Whittaker//%Source%JPFO//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...In this country we embrace the myth that we are still a democracy when we know that we are not a democracy, that we are not free, that the government does not serve us but subjugates us. Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last, has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed -- first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. We did not care about the weak or the about the strays. They were not a part of the flock. We did not care about those on the outer edges. They had chosen to be there. But as the wolf worked its way toward the center of the flock we discovered that we were now on the outer edges. Now we must look the wolf squarely in the eye. That we did not do so when the first of us was ripped and torn and eaten was the first wrong. It was our wrong. That none of us have felt responsible for having lost our freedom has been a part of an insidious progression. In the beginning the attention of the flock was directed not to the marauding wolf but to our own deviant members within the flock. We rejoiced when the wolf destroyed them for they were our enemies. We were told that the weak lay under the rocks while we faced the blizzards to rustle our food, and we did not care when the wolf took them. We argued that they deserved it. When one of our flock faced the wolf alone it was always eaten. Each of us was afraid of the wolf, but as a flock we were not afraid. Indeed, the wolf cleansed the herd by destroying the weak and dismembering the aberrant element within. As time went by, strangely the herd felt more secure under the rule of the wolf. It believed that by belonging to this wolf it would remain safe from all the other wolves. But we were eaten just the same. //%Author%Gerry Spence//%Source%"From Freedom To Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America," 1993, St. Martin's Press//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For the point to be made with respect to Congress and the Second Amendment is that the essential claim advanced by the NRA with respect to the Second Amendment is extremely strong... the constructive role of the NRA today, like the role of the ACLU in the 1920's with respect to the First Amendment, ought itself not to be dismissed lightly."//%Author%William Van Alstyne//%Who%Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law//%Source%"The Second Amendment And The Personal Right to Arms," 1994//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense (3) preservation of individual liberty..." //%Author%Don Kates//%Source%Handgun Prohibition And The Original Meaning of The Second Amendment. 1983//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the `collective' right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of `the people' to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis." //%Author%Stephen P. Halbrook//%Source%That Every Man Be Armed (1984).//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation." //%Author%Joyce Lee Malcolm//%Who%Professor of History. Author//%Source%To Keep and Bear Arms (Harvard University Press 1994)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The states'rights reading puts great weight on the word `militia', but this word appears only in the Amendment's subordinate clause. The ultimate right to keep and bear arms belongs to `the people' not `the states.' As the language of the Tenth Amendment shows, these two are of course not identical when the constitution means `states' it says so. Thus as noted above, `the people' at the core of the Second Amendment are the same `people' at the heart of the Preamble and the First Amendment, namely citizens." //%Author%Akil Amar//%Who%Professor of Law, Yale//%Source%The Bill of Rights as a Constitution, 100 Yale, (1990)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... the United States, now that it was militarily strong enough, 'would wipe its feet upon the Declaration [of Independence] and look around for something to steal'" //%Author%Mark Twain//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberty of a nation be thought secure when we have removed the only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep forever." //%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source%Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quotations on the New World Order, 1918 to 1995 From: http://NWO.Syninfo.com/Crier/pcnwoqut.html "The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow." //%Author%Nicholas Murray Butler//%Source%in an address delivered before the Union League of Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1915//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The peace conference has assembled. It will make the most momentous decisions in history, and upon these decisions will rest the stability of the new world order and the future peace of the world." //%Author%M. C. Alexander//%Who%Executive Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation//%Source%in a subscription letter for the periodical International Conciliation (1919)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands." //%Author%Dr. Augustus O. Thomas//%Who%President of the World Federation of Education Associations//%Source%(August 1927), quoted in the book "International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World" (1931)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The term Internationalism has been popularized in recent years to cover an interlocking financial, political, and economic world force for the purpose of establishing a World Government. Today Internationalism is heralded from pulpit and platform as a 'League of Nations' or a 'Federated Union' to which the United States must surrender a definite part of its National Sovereignty. The World Government plan is being advocated under such alluring names as the 'New International Order,' 'The New World Order,' 'World Union Now,' 'World Commonwealth of Nations,' 'World Community,' etc. All the terms have the same objective; however, the line of approach may be religious or political according to the taste or training of the individual." //%Author%//%Source%excerpt from A Memorial to be Addressed to the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in General Convention (October 1940)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order based on the ideals of 'justice and peace.'" //%Author%//%Source%excerpt from article entitled "New World Order Pledged to Jews," in the New York Times (October 1940)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If totalitarianism wins this conflict, the world will be ruled by tyrants, and individuals will be slaves. If democracy wins, the nations of the earth will be united in a commonwealth of free peoples, and individuals, wherever found, will be the sovereign units of the new world order." //%Author%The Declaration of the Federation of the World//%Source%produced by the Congress on World Federation, adopted by the Legislatures of North Carolina (1941), New Jersey (1942), Pennsylvania (1943), and possibly other states.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "New World Order Needed for Peace: State Sovereignty Must Go, Declares Notre Dame Professor" //%Author%//%Source%title of article in The Tablet (Brooklyn) (March 1942)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles tonight called for the early creation of an international organization of anti-Axis nations to control the world during the period between the armistice at the end of the present war and the setting up of a new world order on a permanent basis." //%Author%//%Source%text of article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (June 1942)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the new world order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God." //%Author%American Institute of Judaism//%Source%excerpt from article in the New York Times (December 1942)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper." //%Author%Norman Thomas//%Source%in his book "What Is Our Destiny" (1944)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He [John Foster Dulles] stated directly to me that he had every reason to believe that the Governor [Thomas E. Dewey of New York] accepts his point of view and that he is personally convinced that this is the policy that he would promote with great vigor if elected. So it is fair to say that on the first round the Sphinx of Albany has established himself as a prima facie champion of a strong and definite new world order." //%Author%Ralph W. Page//%Source%excerpt from article in the Philadelphia Bulletin (May 1944)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able--nor can it be able--to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'" //%Author%Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York//%Source%in an article entitled "Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite: Calls at Harvard for Drive to Build New World Order" -- New York Times (February 1962)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order." //%Author%Richard Nixon//%Source%in Foreign Affairs (October 1967)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He [President Nixon] spoke of the talks as a beginning, saying nothing more about the prospects for future contacts and merely reiterating the belief he brought to China that both nations share an interest in peace and building 'a new world order.'" //%Author%//%Source%excerpt from an article in the New York Times (February 1972)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis ... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." //%Author%Richard N. Gardner//%Source%in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new order will be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species." //%Author%Richard A. Falk//%Source%in an article entitled "Toward a New World Order: Modest Methods and Drastic Visions," in the book "On the Creation of a Just World Order" (1975)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order." //%Author%Henry Kissinger//%Source%in address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 1975)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At the old Inter-American Office in the Commerce Building here in Roosevelt's time, as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs under President Truman, as chief whip with Adlai Stevenson and Tom Finletter at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco, Nelson Rockefeller was in the forefront of the struggle to establish not only an American system of political and economic security but a new world order." //%Author%//%Source%part of article in the New York Times (November 1975)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A New World Order" //%Author%Hubert H. Humphrey//%Source%title of article on commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette (June 1977)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." //%Author%Mikhail Gorbachev//%Source%in an address at the United Nations (December 1988)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms." //%Author%Brent Scowcroft//%Source%(August 1990), quoted in the Washington Post (May 1991)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period." //%Author%Richard Gephardt//%Source%in the Wall Street Journal (September 1990)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long." //%Author%George H.W. Bush//%Source%January 1991//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council." //%Author%A. M. Rosenthal//%Source%in the New York Times (January 1991)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court." //%Author%George McGovern//%Source%in the New York Times (February 1991)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier." //%Author%William Safire//%Source%in the New York Times (February 1991)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How I Learned to Love the New World Order" //%Author%Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. //%Source%title of article by Sen. Biden in the Wall Street Journal (April 1992)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How to Achieve The New World Order" //%Author%Henry Kissinger//%Source%title of book excerpt by Henry Kissinger, in Time magazine (March 1994)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State" //%Author%Kenichi Ohmae//%Source%title of article by Kenichi Ohmae, political reform leader in Japan, in the Wall Street Journal (August 1994)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all." //%Author%Nelson Mandela//%Source%in the Philadelphia Inquirer (October 1994)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The renewal of the nonproliferation treaty was described as important "for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order." //%Author%President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt//%Source%in the New York Times (April 1995)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alchemy for a New World Order" //%Author%article by Stephen John Stedma//%Source%in Foreign Affairs (May/June 1995)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." //%Author%Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.//%Source%in Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% ----------------------- If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly." -//%Source%The Law//%Author%Frederic Bastiat, Paris, 1850//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One Worlders on Soveriegnty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The fiction of sovereignty is clearly no longer compatible with reality." //%Author%Zbigniew Brezinski//%Source%Between 2 Ages, pg. 274//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In short, the 'house of the world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than the top down . . . An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish more than the old fashioned frontal assault." //%Author%Richard N. Gartner//%Source%1974//%Who%Rhodes scholar, US ambassador to Spain.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete, all states will recognize a single global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid 20th century "a citizen of the world" will have assumed real meaning..." //%Author%Strobe Talbot//%Who%Asst. Sec. of State//%Source%Time magazine June 20, 1992//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"World development is not merely an economic process. It involves a profound transformation of the entire economic and social structure." //%Author%Willy Brandt//%Who%German Chancellor//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off." //%Author%Pratt & Whitney spokesperson//%Source%explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." //%Who%Clinton aide //%Author%George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." //%Author%Calvin Coolidge//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"It's like deja vu all over again." //%Author%Yogi Berra//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody." //%Author%Richard M. Nixon//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." //%Author%Samuel Goldwyn//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." //%Author%General William Westmoreland//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet."//%Author%//%Who%Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevi//%end% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution. When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed. Let me add that it is the great desideratum by which this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteem and adoption of mankind. By what means is this object attainable? Evidently by one of two only. Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression. If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions. A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union. //%Author%James Madison//%Source%Federalist Paper #10, 1787//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am convinced, however, that anarchy is not the principal evil that democracies ages have to fear, but the least. For the principle of equality begets two tendencies: the one leads men straight to independence and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road to servitude. Nations readily discern the former tendency and are prepared to resist it; they are led away by the latter, without perceiving its drift; hence it is peculiarly important to point it out. //%Author%//%Source%Vol 2, p.288 in Vintage edition of the Reeve translation of Democracy in America//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence out fears for the safety of our rights; confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free Government is founded on jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited Constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go; and let the honest advocate of confidence read the Alien and Sedition acts and say if the Constitution has not been wise in fixing limits to the government it created, and whether we should be wise in destroying those limits. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." //%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Thomas Jefferson on infringements: "I consider the Alien and Sedition laws as merely an experiment of the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the Constitution."//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Thomas Jefferson on rights, duty, and enforcing the Constitution: "No society can make a perpetual Constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please during their usufruct. They are masters, too, of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The Constitution and laws of their predecessers extinguished them, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every Constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right."//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Thomas Jefferson on the federal government: "It is a singular phenomenon that while our State governments are the very best in the world, without exception or comparison, our general government has in the rapid course of nine or ten years become more arbitrary and has swallowed up more of the public liberty than even that of England."//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Thomas Jefferson: "Every man and every body of men on earth possess the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature."//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Thomas Jefferson: "In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Jefferson on Newspapers: At a very early period in my life I determined never to put a sentence into any newspaper. I have religiously adhered to the resolution through my life and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers it would be more than my time and twenty aids could effect. For, while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust to the justice of my countrymen that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //%Author%Jefferson on the Press: No Government ought to be without censors; and when the press is free, no one ever will. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth either in religion, law or politics. I think it as honorable to the government neither to know nor notice its sycophants or censors as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revolutionary War Quotations By Kristen Ballard Introduction: Many famous quotes came from the Revolutionary War. These were said by people to express and tell other people their feelings. Many affected people during battles, and some led to the beginning of some battles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before The War: "If this be treason, make the most of it!" //%Author%Patrick Henry//%Source%at the time of the Stamp Act in 1764. //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I AM NOT A VIRGINIAN, BUT AN AMERICAN!" //%Author%Patrick Henry//%Source%in 1774 right after the Boston Tea Party had taken place. //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... the very tails of American sheep are so are so laden with wool that each sheep has little wagon to support its tail and to keep it from trailing on the ground." //%Author%Benjamin Franklin//%Source%after "Braddock's Defeat" in the London Chronicle. //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During the War: "Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." //%Author%Captain John Parker//%Source%after Paul Revere's ride in April of 1775 in the town of Lexington.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "On our side, the war should be defensive we are now in a [dangerous] position. Declining an engagement to flight may throw discouragement over the minds of many, but when the fate of America may be at Stake, we should continue the war as long as possible..." //%Author%George Washington//%Source%in 1776. //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Where a goat can go, a man can go; and where a man can go, he can drag a gun." //%Author%Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne//%Source%at the Battle at Mount Defiance.//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude" //%Author%George Washington//%Source%at the battle of West Point, 1781. //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quotes from //%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% "It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily bread is tied to God's special blessing."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that does not maintain any military secrets."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God doesn't play dice.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms. For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%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...build(ing) a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.//%Author%Robert F. Kennedy//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.//%Author%Havelock Ellis//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. //%Author%Reinhold Niebuhr//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The French Revolution of a hundred and fifty years ago gradually ushered in an age of political equality, but the times have changed, and that by itself is not enough today. The boundaries of democracy have to be widened now so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.//%Author%Jawaharlal Nehru//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgement and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.//%Author%John Dewey//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.//%Author%William Ellery Channing//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.//%Author%William James//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.//%Author%G.K. Chesterton//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no substitute for a militant freedom.//%Author%Calvin Coolidge//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.//%Author%La Rochefoucauld//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security"//%Author%William Cohen//%Who%U.S. Secretary of Defense//%Source%3 Feb 1999//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%[The Clinton Administration] may find it useful to invoke the commitments made here [in the UN] to Americans as a lever to persuade the gun lobby.//%Author%Unidentified diplomat//%Source%quoted by the Washington Post, on using UN agreements to circumvent the Second Amendment //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%The right just doesn't exist. Clearly, the states no longer need protection from the federal government disarming their "well-regulated" militia. The Second Amendment no longer speaks to us. The Second Amendment has no modern day application. The Second Amendment is dead.//%Author%Judge Ron Greenburg//%Source%7th US Circuit Court of Appeals //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%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 handguns being produced...The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors- totally illegal. //%Author%Nelson Shields//%Who%Sarah Brady's predecessor at Handgun Control, Inc.//%Source%to the New Yorker Magazine, July 26, 1976, pp. 53//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%There is no reason for anyone in this country- anyone except a police officer or military person- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.//%Author%President Bill Clinton//%Source%while signing the Brady Bill, 1993//%end% %start%%cat=Disarmamnt,Law//%quote%We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.//%Author%Rahm Emmanuel //%end% %start%%cat=Law,Money,NWO,UN//%quote%[Each member government]...shall ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations, and administrative procedures with it obligations [ to the World Trade Organization].//%Author%WTO Charter//%Source%Article 16, paragraph 4, of the World Trade Organization charter //%end% %start%%cat=Arms,UN//%quote%[The problem is]...small arms are spreading throughout society with little documentation, since they are frequently bought from private individuals.//%Author%UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice//%Source%Vienna, May 1996 //%end% %start%%cat=NWO,UN//%quote%The WTO is dejure [legally] world government.//%Author%William Holder//%Who%deputy general counsel to the World Trade Organization //%end% %start%%cat=Disarmament//%quote%[President Clinton]...ordered the Justice Department to begin studying gun licensing, registration, and collection proposals.//%Author%The Washington Times//%Source%December 12, 1993 //%end% %start%%cat=Disarmament,Militia//%quote%...The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to guarantee the existence of state military forces that can serve as a counterweight to a standing federal army. Thus, it seems fair to say, the scope of any rights enjoyed by the states under the 2nd Amendment would be determined by the goal of preserving an independent military force not under direct federal control.//%Author%Dennis Hennigan//%Who%director of Handgun Control, Inc.'s Legal Action Project //%end% %start%%cat=Disarmament//%quote%There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.//%Author%Jim Florio//%Who%New Jersey Governor //%Source%on the state's "assault weapons" ban, 1993 //%end% %start%%cat=Press,Propaganda//%quote%The thought that average citizens will somehow be better able to successfully defend themselves more effectively than our nation's trained professionals is absurd.//%Author%Handgun Control, Inc.//%Source%Official statement from Handgun Control, Inc. //%end%%start%%cat=Government,Nazi,Press,Propaganda//%quote%"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." //%Author%Joseph Goebbels//%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%"We, the people are 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% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% "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." //%Author%U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442 //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is usual for new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. //%Author%Thomas Huxley //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Civilization is protest against nature; progress requires us to take control of evolution. //%Author%Thomas Huxley //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead. //%Author%Thomas Jefferson //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you. //%Author%George Orwell, 1984 //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% Every advance in civilization has been denounced while it was still recent. //%Author%Bertrand Russell //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. //%Author%Bertrand Russell //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. //%Author%William Shakespeare //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. //%Author%H. G. Wells //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% //%Author%Dr. A. E. Fossier wrote in the 1931 New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal: "Under the influence of hashish those fanatics would madly rush at their enemies, and ruthlessly massacre every one within their grasp." //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% --------------------------------- //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%San Francisco Examiner: 1935-36 "Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days -- Hashish goads users to bloodlust." "By the tons it is coming into this country -- the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms.... Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him...." And other nationwide columns... "Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug." "Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim's life in Los Angeles?... THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES -- that is a matter of cold record." //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% ---------------------------- Dr. William C. Woodward, Legislative Council of the American Medical Association, during Congressional hearings for The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937: "That there is a certain amount of narcotic addiction of an objectionable character no one will deny. The newspapers have called attention to it so prominently that there must be some grounds for [their] statements [even Woodward was partially taken in by Hearst's propaganda]. It has surprised me, however, that the facts on which these statements have been based have not been brought before this committee by competent primary evidence. We are referred to newspaper publications concerning the prevalence of marihuana addiction. We are told that the use of marihuana causes crime. But yet no one has been produced from the Bureau of Prisons to show the number of prisoners who have been found addicted to the marihuana habit. An informed inquiry shows that the Bureau of Prisons has no evidence on that point. You have been told that school children are great users of marihuana cigarettes. No one has been summoned from the Children's Bureau to show the nature and extent of the habit, among children. Inquiry of the Children's Bureau shows that they have had no occasion to investigate it and know nothing particularly of it. Inquiry of the Office of Education--- and they certainly should know something of the prevalence of the habit among the school children of the country, if there is a prevalent habit--- indicates that they have had no occasion to investigate and know nothing of it. Moreover, there is in the Treasury Department itself, the Public Health Service, with its Division of Mental Hygiene. The Division of Mental Hygiene was, in the first place, the Division of Narcotics. It was converted into the Division of Mental Hygiene, I think, about 1930. That particular Bureau has control at the present time of the narcotics farms that were created about 1929 or 1930 and came into operation a few years later. No one has been summoned from that Bureau to give evidence on that point. Informal inquiry by me indicates that they have had no record of any marihuana of Cannabis addicts who have ever been committed to those farms. The bureau of Public Health Service has also a division of pharmacology. If you desire evidence as to the pharmacology of Cannabis, that obviously is the place where you can get direct and primary evidence, rather than the indirect hearsay evidence." Committee members then proceeded to attack Dr. Woodward, questioning his motives in opposing the legislation. Even the Chairman joined in: The Chairman: If you want to advise us on legislation, you ought to come here with some constructive proposals, rather than criticism, rather than trying to throw obstacles in the way of something that the Federal Government is trying to do. It has not only an unselfish motive in this, but they have a serious responsibility. Dr. Woodward: We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for 2 years without any intimation, even, to the profession, that it was being prepared. After some further bantering... The Chairman: I would like to read a quotation from a recent editorial in the Washington Times: "The marihuana cigarette is one of the most insidious of all forms of dope, largely because of the failure of the public to understand its fatal qualities. The Nation is almost defenseless against it, having no Federal laws to cope with it and virtually no organized campaign for combating it. The result is tragic. School children are the prey of peddlers who infest school neighborhoods. High school boys and girls buy the destructive weed without knowledge of its capacity of harm, and conscienceless dealers sell it with impunity. This is a national problem, and it must have national attention. The fatal marihuana cigarette must be recognized as a deadly drug, and American children must be protected against it." //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote%The committee passed the legislation on. And on the floor of the house, the entire discussion was: Member from upstate New York: "Mr. Speaker, what is this bill about?" Speaker Rayburn: "I don't know. It has something to do with a thing called marihuana. I think it's a narcotic of some kind." "Mr. Speaker, does the American Medical Association support this bill?" Member on the committee jumps up and says: "Their Doctor Wentworth[sic] came down here. They support this bill 100 percent." And on the basis of that lie, on August 2, 1937, marijuana became illegal at the federal level. The entire coverage in the New York Times: "President Roosevelt signed today a bill to curb traffic in the narcotic, marihuana, through heavy taxes on transactions." //%end% %start%%cat=Money//%quote% ----------------------------------------------------------- by: Parse Next

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