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2006 December 08
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"No government ought to exist
for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people
or to allow such a principle in its policy." |
"None can love freedom but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license,
which never hath more scope than under tyrants." |
"Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue, and
prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." |
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2006 December 07
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"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;
nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity." |
"Secret societies have existed among all peoples,
savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history...
It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages
have exercised a considerable degree of political influence..." |
"Police State: A state in which the government
exercises rigid and repressive controls over
the social, economic, and political life of the people,
especially by means of a secret police force." |
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2006 December 06
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"The enjoyment of power inevitably
corrupts the judgment of reason,
and perverts its liberty." |
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out." |
"If we have Senators and Congressmen there
that can't protect themselves against
the evil temptations of lobbyists,
we don't need to change our lobbies,
we need to change our representatives." |
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2006 December 05
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"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?" |
"The measures adopted to restore public order are:
First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ...
They were elements of disorder and subversion.
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to
confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy,
has given satisfactory results." |
"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are
simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers." |
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2006 December 04
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"The great trouble with you Americans is that
you are still under the influence of that second-rate --
shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx." |
"Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out!" |
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land
to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a
national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the
hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the
state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the
improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies,
especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;
gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country
by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of
children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education
with industrial production, etc. |
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