2017 August 04
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"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions." |
"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" |
"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within." |
2017 August 03
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"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." |
"No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence..." |
"Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder." |
2017 August 02
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"To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large." |
"In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better." |
"Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation." |
2017 August 01
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"Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history." |
"Love your country but fear its government." |
"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!" |
2017 July 31
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"We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests." |
"I believe that America is the greatest country in history and for good reasons, but America has been changing and not for the better. Our free society has been falling prey to a more repressive system with methods for the increased control of people. The return of groups and individuals to the controlling ideology of Imperialism and Marxism using the structures of Corporatism, Socialism and Democracy. The result is that this nation's foundational principles based on the ideology of Liberty are now in danger of extinction." |
"Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. " |
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