"The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes; clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "It may be that those who do most, dream most." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist, humorous writer, "Literary Lapses" "We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say he has no business here at all." - Pericles "But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood."   - Ezekial 33:6 Alexander Hamilton, "Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that very liberty itself." (On the floor of the Constitutional Convention-June 26, 1787 "On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p322. "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Jefferson I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any > party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in > anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an > addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I > could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. > --Thomas Jefferson It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men > of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be > read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be > repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such > incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can > guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; > but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? > -- James Madison, Federalist Papers 62 > > > James Madison, writing in the Federalist Papers said, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." "Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities." His Holiness the Dalai Lama 1918: "The old world order changed when this war-storm [WW I] broke. ... The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak" - Nicholas Murray Butler, in his book A World in Ferment      1931: "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." - Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, president of the World Federation of Education Associations, quoted in the book International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World      1939: "... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people" - H.G. Wells, in his book The New World Order 1975: "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 world 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." - Richard A. Falk in "Toward a New World Order: Modest Methods and Drastic Visions" article in On the Creation of a Just World Order      October, 1975: "Let us fashion together a new world order." - Henry Kissinger, speech to the United Nations General Assembly      November, 1975: "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." - New York Times      1977: "Council [Council on Foreign Relations] leaders believed that blueprints for a new world order were necessary and, furthermore, that this was exactly the kind of activity the Council had been created to undertake." - Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust      December, 1988: "Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for a universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." - Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary of the Communist Party, speech to United Nations      September, 1990: "We can see beyond the present shadow 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 in the post-war period." - Rep. Richard Gephardt, in Wall Street Journal      January, 1991: "If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his [Saddam Hussein] 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." - President George Bush      January, 1991: "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" - A.M. Rosenthal, New York Times      February, 1991: "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 'new world order' based not upon Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court." - George McGovern, New York Times      May, 1991: "We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms." - Brent Scowcroft, quoted in the Washington (D.C.) Post      April, 1994: "The Final Act of the Uruguay Round, marking the conclusion of the most ambitious trade negotiation of our century, will give birth - in Morocco - to the World Trade Organization, the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund" - New York Times, full page ad by the government of Morocco      October, 1994: "[the] ... new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all" - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Philadelphia Inquirer      April, 1995: "The renewal of the nonproliferation treaty was described as important 'for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order'" - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, New York Times      July/August, 1995: "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign Affairs*      May 8, 1996: "We are the cutting edge of the new world order, and we have to make it work." - Maj. John Bushyhead, U.S. Army in Bosnia, CBS (TV) Evening News      date unknown: "The CFR is the American Branch of a society which originated in England and believes national directives should be obliterated and one-world rule established. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years, and was permitted in the early 1960's to examine its papers and secret records." - Dr. Carroll Quigley, professor at Georgetown University      date unknown: "The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government." - Rear Admiral Chester Ward, CFR member for 15 years      date unknown: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas." - Brock Chisolm, onetime Director of World Health Organization      * Foreign Affairs is the official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, the creators and namers - in 1939 - of the United Nations
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