"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."
- C.A. Beard
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"The task before Americans is to end these police-controls of peaceful, productive American citizens, to repeal all the reactionary legislation and rescind the Executive orders that established the national socialist regime, to abolish the Federal corporations, departments, bureaus and agencies that dictate and enforce these State controls..."
- Rose Ingalls Wilder, founding Libertarian
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"The point of a free press is not to protect the powerful against the weak, but to protect the public from the powerful."- Larisa Alexandrovna
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"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
- George Washington
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"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all..."
- Officer Jack McLamb,
Patriot lawman, author of OVK2000, founder of Police & Military Against the NWO
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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt, 1907, on immigrants & Americanism
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - Ephesians 6:12
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"He truly lives dangerously who trusts his health to a doctor; his rights to a lawyer, his money to a banker or his soul to a preacher"- Anonymous
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"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
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"As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -- it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore."
- Tonight Show host Jay Leno
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
- Henry Kissinger
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"There are two views of history: (1) History happens by accident or (2) It is planned. The general public is taught that history happens by accident. However, the upper echelons... know that history is planned."
- R.E. McMaster, Jr., The Power of Total Perspective
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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- Capital Punishment: The beating your paycheck takes.
- A fine is a tax for doing wrong; A tax is a fine for doing well.
- When truth has died, debating is useless.
- A slot machine is when you pull down a lever and more often than not, you get nothing. A voting machine, ditto (Author unknown)
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"...President Clinton warned that the United States was facing a long, ongoing struggle between freedom and fanaticism, between the rule of law and terrorism... So, is the U.S. prepared for the consequences of what it now insists is a global war on terrorism? Experts on terrorism... say that if the Clinton Administration is true to its words, Washington is embarked on a decades long battle in which Americans may find themselves increasingly targeted on the streets of their own cities."
The New York Times (8/23/98) in an article entitled "America Embarks On A Struggle With Domestic Costs"
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On 9/28/98, Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), one of the leading early exponents of impeaching Bill Clinton, released a memorandum exposing a huge police state power grab by Bill Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno.
As Rep. Barr wrote: "Attorney General Janet Reno and the Department of Justice intend to obtain massive new enforcement powers in the closing days of the 105th Congress..."
Barr obtained the information from a confidential source within federal law enforcement. Among other things, the Department's `wish list' for new authority includes:
* A vastly expanded definition of terrorism to include domestic crimes having no relationship to terrorism.
* The power to seize commercial transportation assets for federal use.
* The ability to commandeer personnel from other federal agencies without reimbursement.
* Expanded wiretap authority to allow `roving' wiretaps, and wiretaps without any court authority.
* Enlarged asset forfeiture provisions to allow the FBI to seize personal property in both criminal and civil matters.
*** The establishment of a permanent "FBI Police Force".
*** Loosening of Posse Comitatus restrictions to allow more military involvement in domestic law enforcement. [...Waco times ten!]
* Authority to force telephone and Internet companies to divulge information on their customers.
"These requests belong in some bizarre conspiracy novel, not in serious legislative documents being circulated at the top levels of federal law enforcement. These proposals represent a sneak attack on the most cherished principles of our republic. If they become a part of our law, freedom and privacy in America will be permanently and severely diminished," said Barr.
[Note: This was accomplished in Patriot Acts I & II, and the 'Victory' Act.]
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"It is...time for Americans to get used to a lessening of our freedoms..."
- Congresswoman Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), April 1995
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"There is only one thing you can do with a Congressman, and that is to hit 'em on the snout!" - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
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"We do not need any more preaching about right and wrong. The old 'thou shalt nots' simply are not relevant. Values clarification is a method for teachers to change the values of children without getting caught."
- Dr. Sidney Simon, educator, lecturer
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"There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."
- Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC)
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"At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
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"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff, the entire system will collapse.' "
- Sen. Henry Bellmon (1969)
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"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts... the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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"Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."
- T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of IRS, May 25, 1956 in USN&WR
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson
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"If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you."
- Gary Makovski, Special IRS Agent, testifying under oath in U.S. v. Lloyd
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"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
- Samuel Clemens, author writing under the pen name "Mark Twain"
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"The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - Samuel Adams
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
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"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."
- Judge Cummings, U.S. Federal Judge, in U.S. v. Dickerson (7th Circuit 1969)
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
- Abraham Lincoln
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"He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."- Thomas Jefferson
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"To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals ... is none the less robbery because it is ... called taxation."
- United States Supreme Court in Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
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"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."
- President James Madison
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"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."
- United States Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds
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"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." - Thomas Jefferson
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for security."
- Norman Vincent Peale
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"Any truth is better than make-believe ... rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion."- Thomas Jefferson
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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt." - John Adams
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"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us down with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
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"The beauty of the 2nd Amendment is it'll be unnecessary until they try to take it away."
- General Omar Bradley
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people." - William O. Douglas
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
- Winston Churchill
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen to set brushfires in the peoples' minds." - Samuel Adams
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"The best homeland security is the kind where we get the enemy before he gets us..."
- Tom Ridge, Director of the then-newly-formed Department of Homeland Security, Speaking to Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show', November 22, 2002
Leno: "So how long will this 'war on terrorism' last?"
Ridge: "It is permanent..."
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