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Dictator
Dictators SUCK!
By that definition,
The REAL issue behind politics is religion. It's really a religious
issue. Some people think that the government is God. Some don't! I don't
and neither did the people who started this country.
America has been enslaved by bureuacracy. Those that we elected have
enslaved us with those that they appointed. Americans are now held
accountable to rules foreign to our Constitution. Our leaders have
This same bureaucratic rulership was a primary motivation in the War for
Independence. Our "leaders" have
Both of the above quotes come from the Declaration of Independence
written in 1776. It is simply amazing how accurate and applicable those
words are today.
History has come full circle in these united States of America. Some 200
years after the American Revolution, Washington D.C. now looks and acts
very much like the British Crown in the days of our forefathers, guilty
of the vast majority of the charges given against King George and the
British Crown in the Declaration of
Independence for the united States of America .
This should come as no surprise. The founding forefathers and many other
great Americans repeatedly warned us that this would eventually happen...
Dictatorship is...
"Rule By Decree".
They just say it.
You just do it.
That's all there is to it.
America is largely
a dictatorship these days..."erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent
hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their
Substance."
"combined with others to
subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and
unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation..."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Santayana
These Political Freedom web pages are as much as study of the British Crown's abuses of power that lead up to the American Revolution as they are a study of Washington D.C.'s current abuses of power. When you study the two, the two are hard to tell apart...
If the government cannot protect the rights of the individual, how can it protect the rights of the nation? How can it protect you? And if it can't protect you, then what is it good for? These pages consist mostly of quotes by some of the greatest minds in history like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Christ, Plato, Akamai, etc., etc.. and quotes from some of the worst... These pages draw a picture of the purpose of government and it's fundamental duty: to Protect the Rights & Freedoms of each and every Citizen.
RIGHTS!
RIGHTS come from ...GOD
RIGHTS, as opposed to wrongs... RIGHT is RIGHT and whatever is
left over is wrong. RIGHTS come from GOD. Privileges come from man.
"Unalienable" means it cannot be taken away from you. This applies especially to
your rights. NO man can take away your RIGHTS. You have them whether you know
and use them, or not!
The individual may stand upon his Constitutional Rights as a Citizen. He
is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to
contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the state or to his neighbors...
He owes no such duty to the state, since he receives nothing therefrom,
beyond the protection of his life and property. Hale v. 201 US 43, 74
So what "rights" should a person have? There are two schools of thought...
1. The Right side, where every PERSON should have every possible
RIGHT that does not directly damage or infringe the rights of
another PERSON!
2. The Left side, where no person should have any rights except
as productive and copasetic to the STATE!
This is the right and the left of the issue when it gets
down to what's right and what's wrong.
Ask yourself the question. Do you swing right or left on this one?
"...at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the
people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but
they are sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but
themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens,
and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." CHISHOLM v. GEORGIA
(US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @DALL 1793 pp471-472
"The constitutions of most of our states [and of the United States]
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise
it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of
religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press." -- Thomas
Jefferson
Our rights cannot be taken, and yet a Congressional report clearly
states...
"Since 1933, the United States has been in
a state of declared national emergency... A majority of the people of
the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For
40 years [now 63 years], freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed
by he Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws
brought into force by states of national emergency." Senate Report 93-459
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do
so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are
created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights." -- Declaration of Independence
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are
therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the
aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they
are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the
municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has
power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit
some act that amounts to a forfeiture." -- Sir William Blackstone
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William Shakespeare; Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II, spoken by Dick the Butcher.
JUST KIDDING! But it's not a bad idea. An even better one is...
"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."
and...
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and
mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Both quotes are from American President Thomas Jefferson.
SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
As President Jefferson said, we need to "Enlighten the People" and such
enlightenment must begin with ourselves. As show above, Rights come from
God. No governmental legislation can make Rights any more or less than Rights, but
it is nice that we have things like the Bill of Rights to draw from.
Interestingly, the Bill of Rights is not a list of Citizen's Rights at
all, but a list of LIMITATIONS on the government. Read for
yourself... The 1st Amendment starts with the words "Congress shall make
no law..." and that is a limitation on Congress, not on We the
People!
From here on down are many notable quotes by many great
men, in no particular order but of great and significant value to the
student of Liberty. As time permits, these and other quotes will be put
in logical order for easier reading and better understanding...
(1791) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances.
(1791) A well regulated militia, being necessary to
the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
(1791) No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered
in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of
war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
(1791) The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(1791) No person shall be held to answer for a
capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land
or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in
time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject
for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or
limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a
witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private
property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.
(1791) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an
impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed, which district shall have been previously
ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of
the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to
have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to
have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
(1791) In suits at common law, where the value in
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury
shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise
reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the
rules of the common law.
(1791) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted.
(1791) The enumeration in the Constitution, of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people.
(1791) The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
(1795) The judicial power of the United States shall
not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity,
commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by
Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any
Foreign State.
(1804) Presidential Election... Of Value, but very lengthy and not related to Sovereign Citizens Rights...
(1865) SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
We hold that our loyalty is due to the American Republic, and to all
our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently serve the
Republic. Every man who parrots the cry of 'stand by the President'
without adding the proviso 'so far as he serves the Republic' takes an
attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who
championed the doctrine that the king could do no wrong. No self-
respecting and intelligent freeman could take such an attitude.
In Volume 16, American Jurisprudence, 177, we find the following:
And therefore...
(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any Federal, State, or local governmental agency to deny to any individual any
right, benefit, or privilege provided by law because of such individual's refusal to disclose his social ecurity
account number.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty, is no vice..." Barry
GoldwaterThe 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 its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so
branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as
inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the
question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute
not been enacted.
Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow
that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows
no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no
acts performed under it...
"Give me Liberty or give me Death" is a rehtorical
statement.
Akamai Kane
When the Laws of the Land are no longer honored and enforced by the
courts, the legislature, and the executive branches of government, then the
ultimate and last appeal is to the Laws of God (physics) and Courts of the
Street (democracy)...
SOVEREIGNTY
The concept of sovereignty stands on its own. The sources shown
below may help you to see that it is a respected and valid
concept.
The second paragraph below contains a strong statement of the
sovereignty of the people.
The section is what is known as the "Brown Act" or
"secret meeting law" (California Government Code).
Chapter 9
MEETINGS
Section 54950. Declaration, intent; sovereignty. In enacting
this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public
commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies in
this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.
It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly
and that their deliberations be conducted openly.
The people of the State do not yield their sovereignty to
the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating
authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide
what is good for the people to know and what is not good for
them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that
they may retain control over the instruments they have created.
(Added Stats. 1953, c. 1588, p.3270, sec. 1.)
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire
a dangerous servant and a terrible master." -- George Washington
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations -- entangling
alliances with none." -- President Thomas Jefferson, inaugural address,
March 4, 1801. -- The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A.
Lipscomb, vol. 3, p. 321 (1904). This thought had been similarly
expressed earlier in his letter to Edward Carrington, December 21, 1787:
"I know too that it is a maxim with us, and I think it a wise one, not to
entangle ourselves with the affairs of Europe." -- The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd, vol. 12, p. 447 (1955). George
Washington did not use any form of "entangle," but shared a like
political view in his letters to Patrick Henry, October 9, 1795: "My
ardent desire is . . . to keep the United States free from political
connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent
of all, and under the influence of none," and to Gouverneur Morris,
December 22, 1795: "My policy has been . . . to be upon friendly terms
with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the
broils of none." -- Writings of George Washington, ed. John C.
Fitzpatrick, vol. 34, pp. 335, 401 (1940).
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long
as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall
be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one
another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in
Europe." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787.
Taken from "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Julian P. Boyd,
vol. 12, p. 442 (1955).
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."-- Thomas
Jefferson (1774). From "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Julian
P. Boyd, vol. 9, p. 151 (1954).
"The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . .
[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." -- Thomas
Jefferson, letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810. From
"The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol.
12, pp. 369-70 (1904). In the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of
Liberty is a plaque inscribed with this quotation, lacking the first
clause above.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Vice President Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800. -- The Writings of Thomas
Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 10, p. 175 (1903). Carved at the
base of the dome, interior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public
property." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson by B. L. Rayner, "Life of
Thomas Jefferson," p. 356 (1834).
"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the
hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they
please." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6,
1819. Found in "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Andrew A.
Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 213 (1904).
"...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested,
that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring
their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the
least suspicion." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and prayers,
but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the
well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion
and vindicator of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, 1821.
"That the said Constitution shall never be 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 ..." -- Samuel Adams in
arguing for a Bill of Rights, from the book "Massachusetts," published by
Pierce & Hale, Boston, 1850, pg. 86-87.
"They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money,
except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer
to be generous with other people's freedom and security." -- William F.
Buckley
"Disperse you Rebels - Damn you, throw down your Arms and disperse." --
Maj. John Pitcairn, Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775
"Men that are above all Fear, soon grow above all Shame." -- John
Trenchard and Thomas Gordon "Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil
and Religious, and Other Important Subjects" [London, 1755]
Too often foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich nation send their
money to the rich people of a poor nation.
"... The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other;
but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far better to be
feared than loved if you cannot be both. ...Men worry less about doing an
injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself
feared. The bond of love is one which men, wretched creatures that they
are, break when it is to their advantage to do so; but fear is
strengthened by a dread of punishment which is always effective." - -
Machiavelli - The Prince; Chapter 17
In the arguments over the validity of the Theory of Quantum Mechanics,
Dr. Albert Einstein uttered his now oft-quoted line, "God does not play
dice with the Universe" but rarely quoted is Dr. Neils Bohr's response,
"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of
each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound
to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." --
Albert Einstein
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong." -- Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --
Albert Einstein
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing,
great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of
honor and good sense." -- Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Harrow
School, October 29, 1941
"In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." --
Winston Churchill
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject." -- Winston Churchill
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
-- Winston Churchill
"Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it.
If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly
and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away
from anything. Never!" -- Winston Churchill
"...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine.
Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
-- Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Propaganda Minister
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless
one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine
itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." -- Joseph Goebbels
- Nazi Propaganda Minister
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to
guard and defend it." -- Daniel Webster
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
"Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men
to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows" -- Franklin D.
Roosevelt
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time
that men have died to win them." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I
say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" -- Oliver
Cromwell in dissolving Parliament, 1653
"A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error
than to admit a mistake." -- Colin Greenwood
" You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will
convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would
do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon
Baines Johnson, former Senator and President.
"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts
- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln
"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is
not... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and
disciplined army... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has
planted in our bosoms." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1858
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham
Lincoln
"We always hire Democratic Congressmen who promise to give us from the
government all the things we want. And we always hire Republican
Presidents to make sure we don't have to pay for it." -- T.J. Rodgers
quoting in REASON
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every
time Congress meets." -- Will Rogers
"They have rights who dare maintain them." -- James Russell Lowell
We, free citizens of the Great Republic, feel an honest pride in her
greatness, her strength, her just and gentle government, her wide
liberties, her honored name, her stainless history, her unbesmirched
flag, her hands clean from oppression of the weak and from malicious
conquest, her hospitable door that stands open to the hunted and the
persecuted of all nations; we are proud of the judicious respect in which
she is held by monarchies which hem her in on every side, and proudest of
all of that loft patriotism which we inherited from our fathers, which we
have kept pure, and which won our liberties in the beginning and has
preserved them unto this day. While patriotism endures the Republic is
safe, her greatness is secure, and against them the powers of the earth
can not prevail." -- Mark Twain
"Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." --
Mark Twain
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly
stand to have him around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and an elephant is a mouse
built to military specifications." -- from page 321 of "Cryptoanalysis
for Microcomputers" by Caxton C. Foster (University of Massachusetts),
Hayden Book Co. Inc., 1982.
"In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have
come from men who would rather get hurt than give in." -- Jeff Cooper;
from "Pistols and the Law" in "Cooper on Handguns"
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to
reside some time in a foreign one." -- William Shenstone
"In war, there is no substitute for victory." -- General Douglas
MacArthur
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in
its preservation." -- General Douglas MacArthur, title of speech to the
people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese
constitution. -- From the book `MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks,' p. 194
(1965). Francis T. Miller, author of `General Douglas MacArthur - Fighter
for Freedom,' p. 1 (1942), wrote, "[MacArthur] has said many times to
friends: `The man who will not defend his freedom does not deserve to be
free.'"
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Most people don't object to criticism - provided it's favorable.
There is nothing wrong in having nothing to say, unless you say it.
If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.
Things that must be together to work usually are not shipped together.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to
reside some time in a foreign one. -- William Shenstone
"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 the struggle for
independence." -- Charles A. Beard
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation." -- Woodrow
Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924).
"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but
with tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will
be certainly be lost." -- William Lloyd Garrison
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William
Shakespeare; Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II, spoken by Dick the Butcher.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it." -- Goethe
"The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a crisis of
freedom, said to his generation: `What you have inherited from your
fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours." We
inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade and re-
earned in each generation of man." -- Adlai E. Stevenson, `Politics and
Morality,' Saturday Review, February 7, 1959, p. 12. He quoted Goethe's
Faust, act I, scene i, "Was du ererbt von deinen Vatern hast, / Erwirb
es, um es zu besitzen." In Randall Jarrell's translation, "That which you
inherit from your fathers / You must earn in order to possess. " --
Goethe's Faust, p. 35 (1976).
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that the
Christians had access to the lions. . ." -- Judge Earl Johnson Jr.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"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." -- Justice Robert H. Jackson
"A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
Governments in the world -- no longer a Government of free opinion, no
longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a
Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." --
Woodrow Wilson
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"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." -- Justice Robert H. Jackson
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We
hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of
the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of
America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by
exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the
consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by
denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it."
-- James Madison
"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which
would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are
therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the
aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they
are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the
municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has
power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit
some act that amounts to a forfeiture." -- Sir William Blackstone
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!), but "That's funny ..." --
Isaac Asimov
"There are only three kinds of people: those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened." --
Anonymous
"It is often easier to apologize for your actions than to ask permission
to do those actions." -- Anonymous
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples,
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have
two ideas." -- Attributed to George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will
not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world
is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are
omnipotent. The slogan `press on' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race." -- Attributed to Calvin Coolidge.
Unverified, though this appeared on the cover of the program of a
memorial service for him in 1933. The Forbes Library, Northampton,
Massachusetts, has searched its Coolidge collection many times for this.
"All cruelty springs from weakness." -- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
"As it is with a play, so it is with life -- what matters is not how long
the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point
you stop. Stop wherever you will -- only make sure that you round it off
with a good ending." -- Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 77
"He that violates his oath profanes the Divinity of faith itself." --
Cicero (found on LA City Hall)
"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced;
the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.
Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't
want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living
on public assistance." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
"Power and law are not synonymous. In truth they are frequently in
opposition and irreconcilable. There is God's Law from which all
Equitable laws of man emerge and by which men must live if they are not
to die in oppression, chaos and despair. Divorced from God's eternal and
immutable Law, established before the founding of the suns, man's power
is evil no matter the noble words with which it is employed or the
motives urged when enforcing it. Men of good will, mindful therefore of
the Law laid down by God, will oppose governments whose rule is by men,
and if they wish to survive as a nation they will destroy the government
which attempts to adjudicate by the whim of venal judges." -- Marcus
Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.
"Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for
comfort and a passive outlook." -- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom,
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values
more, it will lose that too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for
betterment. When compulsion is used only resentment is aroused, and the
end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to men's reason
can a movement succeed." -- Samuel Gompers
"Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his
liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of
life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent
upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but
the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension
of our faculties?" -- Bastiat
"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might
dodge sucessfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they
were bound to get you."
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Congress in 1974 passed the Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. Law
93-579, 88 Stat. 1896; as amended). Section 7 of Pub. Law 93-579
provides:
"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which
would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke
The trade deficit hit 111 billion last year. It is 14 billion with
Mexico alone. "free trade is the fastest way to social revolution." Karl
Marx 1848
> No true conservative could support free trade. Tarriffs are allowed
> for in the constitution. If a defender of the constitution is called a
> liberal or exrtemist, and a free trader is called a conservative then
> we have deep problems.
"We have placed too much hope in politics and social reforms,
only to find out that we were being deprived of our most
precious possession: our spiritual life."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn, _A World Split Apart_
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
to teenage boys.
--P/J. O'Rourke in Parliament of Whores
[The Founding Fathers] understood that republican self-government could not exist if humanity did not possess… the traditional "republican virtues" of self-control, self-reliance, and a disinterested concern for the public good.
--Irving Kristol in Reflections of a Neo-Conservative
Modern liberalism, for most liberals, is not a consciously understood set
of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined
sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they
are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the
background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.
-- James Burnham in Suicide of the West
I wanted to go home, but they wouldn’t let me.
-- Walker School student Sarah Seidensticker referring to Clinton aids
who reduced some of her classmates to tears as they were kept at school
until 9:00pm practicing what they would do and say during the
president’s recent visit.
"New Age Liberalism was in essence nothing more complicated or noble
than a running argument with life as it was led by normal Americans."
--R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., in _The Liberal Crackup_
Government growing beyond our consent had become a
lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity,
threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom.
What brought America back? The American people brought
us back--with quiet courage and common sense; with undying
faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours,
for the future belongs to the free.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
State of the Union Address, February 4, 1986
"They have the usual socialist disease; they have run out of other
people's money."
-Margaret Thatcher, in a speech to a Conservative Party Conference, 10 October 1975
"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and
the burder of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences
of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseperable."
--Friedrich Hayek, _The Consitution of Liberty_, 1960
"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
-James Q. Wilson in _Public Interest_, Fall 1985
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government
is competence, because it's so rare."
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan, _New York Times_, 2 March 1976
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-Albert Einstein, Attributed
"People say we are on the Washington diet. When you're on the
Washington diet you gain 10 pounds ... what kind of diet is that?
Well, they say 'If we weren't on the diet we'd gain 15 pounds!'"
--Presidential Candidate Steve Forbes speaking at CPAC '96
"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be
given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the
morality of the judge."
--Robert Bork, American Enterprise Institute, 1984
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POLITICAL FREEDOM
"Everyone should know
of all information
that others deem unfit
for public knowledge."
DARE TO BE FREE!
DARE TO JOIN D.A.R.N.
Dictator
Dictators SUCK!
By that definition,
The REAL issue behind politics is religion. It's really a religious
issue. Some people think that the government is God. Some don't! I don't
and neither did the people who started this country.
America has been enslaved by bureuacracy. Those that we elected have
enslaved us with those that they appointed. Americans are now held
accountable to rules foreign to our Constitution. Our leaders have
This same bureaucratic rulership was a primary motivation in the War for
Independence. Our "leaders" have
Both of the above quotes come from the Declaration of Independence
written in 1776. It is simply amazing how accurate and applicable those
words are today.
History has come full circle in these united States of America. Some 200
years after the American Revolution, Washington D.C. now looks and acts
very much like the British Crown in the days of our forefathers, guilty
of the vast majority of the charges given against King George and the
British Crown in the Declaration of
Independence for the united States of America .
This should come as no surprise. The founding forefathers and many other
great Americans repeatedly warned us that this would eventually happen...
Dictatorship is...
"Rule By Decree".
They just say it.
You just do it.
That's all there is to it.
America is largely
a dictatorship these days..."erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent
hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their
Substance."
"combined with others to
subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and
unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation..."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Santayana
These Political Freedom web pages are as much as study of the British Crown's abuses of power that lead up to the American Revolution as they are a study of Washington D.C.'s current abuses of power. When you study the two, the two are hard to tell apart...
If the government cannot protect the rights of the individual, how can it protect the rights of the nation? How can it protect you? And if it can't protect you, then what is it good for? These pages consist mostly of quotes by some of the greatest minds in history like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Christ, Plato, Akamai, etc., etc.. and quotes from some of the worst... These pages draw a picture of the purpose of government and it's fundamental duty: to Protect the Rights & Freedoms of each and every Citizen.
RIGHTS!
RIGHTS come from ...GOD
RIGHTS, as opposed to wrongs... RIGHT is RIGHT and whatever is
left over is wrong. RIGHTS come from GOD. Privileges come from man.
"Unalienable" means it cannot be taken away from you. This applies especially to
your rights. NO man can take away your RIGHTS. You have them whether you know
and use them, or not!
The individual may stand upon his Constitutional Rights as a Citizen. He
is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to
contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the state or to his neighbors...
He owes no such duty to the state, since he receives nothing therefrom,
beyond the protection of his life and property. Hale v. 201 US 43, 74
So what "rights" should a person have? There are two schools of thought...
1. The Right side, where every PERSON should have every possible
RIGHT that does not directly damage or infringe the rights of
another PERSON!
2. The Left side, where no person should have any rights except
as productive and copasetic to the STATE!
This is the right and the left of the issue when it gets
down to what's right and what's wrong.
Ask yourself the question. Do you swing right or left on this one?
"...at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the
people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but
they are sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but
themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens,
and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." CHISHOLM v. GEORGIA
(US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @DALL 1793 pp471-472
"The constitutions of most of our states [and of the United States]
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise
it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of
religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press." -- Thomas
Jefferson
Our rights cannot be taken, and yet a Congressional report clearly
states...
"Since 1933, the United States has been in
a state of declared national emergency... A majority of the people of
the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For
40 years [now 63 years], freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed
by he Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws
brought into force by states of national emergency." Senate Report 93-459
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do
so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are
created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights." -- Declaration of Independence
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are
therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the
aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they
are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the
municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has
power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit
some act that amounts to a forfeiture." -- Sir William Blackstone
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William Shakespeare; Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II, spoken by Dick the Butcher.
JUST KIDDING! But it's not a bad idea. An even better one is...
"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."
and...
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and
mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Both quotes are from American President Thomas Jefferson.
SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
As President Jefferson said, we need to "Enlighten the People" and such
enlightenment must begin with ourselves. As show above, Rights come from
God. No governmental legislation can make Rights any more or less than Rights, but
it is nice that we have things like the Bill of Rights to draw from.
Interestingly, the Bill of Rights is not a list of Citizen's Rights at
all, but a list of LIMITATIONS on the government. Read for
yourself... The 1st Amendment starts with the words "Congress shall make
no law..." and that is a limitation on Congress, not on We the
People!
From here on down are many notable quotes by many great
men, in no particular order but of great and significant value to the
student of Liberty. As time permits, these and other quotes will be put
in logical order for easier reading and better understanding...
(1791) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances.
(1791) A well regulated militia, being necessary to
the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
(1791) No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered
in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of
war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
(1791) The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(1791) No person shall be held to answer for a
capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land
or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in
time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject
for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or
limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a
witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private
property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.
(1791) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an
impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed, which district shall have been previously
ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of
the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to
have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to
have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
(1791) In suits at common law, where the value in
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury
shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise
reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the
rules of the common law.
(1791) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted.
(1791) The enumeration in the Constitution, of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people.
(1791) The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
(1795) The judicial power of the United States shall
not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity,
commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by
Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any
Foreign State.
(1804) Presidential Election... Of Value, but very lengthy and not related to Sovereign Citizens Rights...
(1865) SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
We hold that our loyalty is due to the American Republic, and to all
our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently serve the
Republic. Every man who parrots the cry of 'stand by the President'
without adding the proviso 'so far as he serves the Republic' takes an
attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who
championed the doctrine that the king could do no wrong. No self-
respecting and intelligent freeman could take such an attitude.
In Volume 16, American Jurisprudence, 177, we find the following:
And therefore...
(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any Federal, State, or local governmental agency to deny to any individual any
right, benefit, or privilege provided by law because of such individual's refusal to disclose his social ecurity
account number.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty, is no vice..." Barry
GoldwaterThe 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 its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so
branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as
inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the
question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute
not been enacted.
Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow
that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows
no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no
acts performed under it...
"Give me Liberty or give me Death" is a rehtorical
statement.
Akamai Kane
When the Laws of the Land are no longer honored and enforced by the
courts, the legislature, and the executive branches of government, then the
ultimate and last appeal is to the Laws of God (physics) and Courts of the
Street (democracy)...
SOVEREIGNTY
The concept of sovereignty stands on its own. The sources shown
below may help you to see that it is a respected and valid
concept.
The second paragraph below contains a strong statement of the
sovereignty of the people.
The section is what is known as the "Brown Act" or
"secret meeting law" (California Government Code).
Chapter 9
MEETINGS
Section 54950. Declaration, intent; sovereignty. In enacting
this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public
commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies in
this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.
It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly
and that their deliberations be conducted openly.
The people of the State do not yield their sovereignty to
the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating
authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide
what is good for the people to know and what is not good for
them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that
they may retain control over the instruments they have created.
(Added Stats. 1953, c. 1588, p.3270, sec. 1.)
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire
a dangerous servant and a terrible master." -- George Washington
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations -- entangling
alliances with none." -- President Thomas Jefferson, inaugural address,
March 4, 1801. -- The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A.
Lipscomb, vol. 3, p. 321 (1904). This thought had been similarly
expressed earlier in his letter to Edward Carrington, December 21, 1787:
"I know too that it is a maxim with us, and I think it a wise one, not to
entangle ourselves with the affairs of Europe." -- The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd, vol. 12, p. 447 (1955). George
Washington did not use any form of "entangle," but shared a like
political view in his letters to Patrick Henry, October 9, 1795: "My
ardent desire is . . . to keep the United States free from political
connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent
of all, and under the influence of none," and to Gouverneur Morris,
December 22, 1795: "My policy has been . . . to be upon friendly terms
with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the
broils of none." -- Writings of George Washington, ed. John C.
Fitzpatrick, vol. 34, pp. 335, 401 (1940).
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long
as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall
be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one
another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in
Europe." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787.
Taken from "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Julian P. Boyd,
vol. 12, p. 442 (1955).
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."-- Thomas
Jefferson (1774). From "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Julian
P. Boyd, vol. 9, p. 151 (1954).
"The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . .
[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." -- Thomas
Jefferson, letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810. From
"The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol.
12, pp. 369-70 (1904). In the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of
Liberty is a plaque inscribed with this quotation, lacking the first
clause above.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Vice President Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800. -- The Writings of Thomas
Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 10, p. 175 (1903). Carved at the
base of the dome, interior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public
property." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson by B. L. Rayner, "Life of
Thomas Jefferson," p. 356 (1834).
"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the
hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they
please." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6,
1819. Found in "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Andrew A.
Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 213 (1904).
"...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested,
that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring
their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the
least suspicion." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and prayers,
but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the
well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion
and vindicator of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, 1821.
"That the said Constitution shall never be 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 ..." -- Samuel Adams in
arguing for a Bill of Rights, from the book "Massachusetts," published by
Pierce & Hale, Boston, 1850, pg. 86-87.
"They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money,
except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer
to be generous with other people's freedom and security." -- William F.
Buckley
"Disperse you Rebels - Damn you, throw down your Arms and disperse." --
Maj. John Pitcairn, Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775
"Men that are above all Fear, soon grow above all Shame." -- John
Trenchard and Thomas Gordon "Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil
and Religious, and Other Important Subjects" [London, 1755]
Too often foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich nation send their
money to the rich people of a poor nation.
"... The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other;
but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far better to be
feared than loved if you cannot be both. ...Men worry less about doing an
injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself
feared. The bond of love is one which men, wretched creatures that they
are, break when it is to their advantage to do so; but fear is
strengthened by a dread of punishment which is always effective." - -
Machiavelli - The Prince; Chapter 17
In the arguments over the validity of the Theory of Quantum Mechanics,
Dr. Albert Einstein uttered his now oft-quoted line, "God does not play
dice with the Universe" but rarely quoted is Dr. Neils Bohr's response,
"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of
each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound
to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." --
Albert Einstein
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong." -- Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --
Albert Einstein
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing,
great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of
honor and good sense." -- Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Harrow
School, October 29, 1941
"In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." --
Winston Churchill
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject." -- Winston Churchill
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
-- Winston Churchill
"Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it.
If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly
and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away
from anything. Never!" -- Winston Churchill
"...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine.
Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
-- Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Propaganda Minister
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless
one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine
itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." -- Joseph Goebbels
- Nazi Propaganda Minister
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to
guard and defend it." -- Daniel Webster
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
"Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men
to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows" -- Franklin D.
Roosevelt
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time
that men have died to win them." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I
say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" -- Oliver
Cromwell in dissolving Parliament, 1653
"A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error
than to admit a mistake." -- Colin Greenwood
" You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will
convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would
do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon
Baines Johnson, former Senator and President.
"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts
- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln
"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is
not... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and
disciplined army... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has
planted in our bosoms." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1858
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham
Lincoln
"We always hire Democratic Congressmen who promise to give us from the
government all the things we want. And we always hire Republican
Presidents to make sure we don't have to pay for it." -- T.J. Rodgers
quoting in REASON
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every
time Congress meets." -- Will Rogers
"They have rights who dare maintain them." -- James Russell Lowell
We, free citizens of the Great Republic, feel an honest pride in her
greatness, her strength, her just and gentle government, her wide
liberties, her honored name, her stainless history, her unbesmirched
flag, her hands clean from oppression of the weak and from malicious
conquest, her hospitable door that stands open to the hunted and the
persecuted of all nations; we are proud of the judicious respect in which
she is held by monarchies which hem her in on every side, and proudest of
all of that loft patriotism which we inherited from our fathers, which we
have kept pure, and which won our liberties in the beginning and has
preserved them unto this day. While patriotism endures the Republic is
safe, her greatness is secure, and against them the powers of the earth
can not prevail." -- Mark Twain
"Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." --
Mark Twain
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly
stand to have him around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and an elephant is a mouse
built to military specifications." -- from page 321 of "Cryptoanalysis
for Microcomputers" by Caxton C. Foster (University of Massachusetts),
Hayden Book Co. Inc., 1982.
"In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have
come from men who would rather get hurt than give in." -- Jeff Cooper;
from "Pistols and the Law" in "Cooper on Handguns"
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to
reside some time in a foreign one." -- William Shenstone
"In war, there is no substitute for victory." -- General Douglas
MacArthur
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in
its preservation." -- General Douglas MacArthur, title of speech to the
people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese
constitution. -- From the book `MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks,' p. 194
(1965). Francis T. Miller, author of `General Douglas MacArthur - Fighter
for Freedom,' p. 1 (1942), wrote, "[MacArthur] has said many times to
friends: `The man who will not defend his freedom does not deserve to be
free.'"
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Most people don't object to criticism - provided it's favorable.
There is nothing wrong in having nothing to say, unless you say it.
If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.
Things that must be together to work usually are not shipped together.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to
reside some time in a foreign one. -- William Shenstone
"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 the struggle for
independence." -- Charles A. Beard
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation." -- Woodrow
Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924).
"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but
with tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will
be certainly be lost." -- William Lloyd Garrison
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William
Shakespeare; Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II, spoken by Dick the Butcher.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it." -- Goethe
"The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a crisis of
freedom, said to his generation: `What you have inherited from your
fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours." We
inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade and re-
earned in each generation of man." -- Adlai E. Stevenson, `Politics and
Morality,' Saturday Review, February 7, 1959, p. 12. He quoted Goethe's
Faust, act I, scene i, "Was du ererbt von deinen Vatern hast, / Erwirb
es, um es zu besitzen." In Randall Jarrell's translation, "That which you
inherit from your fathers / You must earn in order to possess. " --
Goethe's Faust, p. 35 (1976).
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that the
Christians had access to the lions. . ." -- Judge Earl Johnson Jr.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"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." -- Justice Robert H. Jackson
"A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
Governments in the world -- no longer a Government of free opinion, no
longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a
Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." --
Woodrow Wilson
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --
Santayana
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government's purposes are beneficent....the greatest dangers to
liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"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." -- Justice Robert H. Jackson
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We
hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of
the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of
America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by
exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the
consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by
denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it."
-- James Madison
"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which
would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are
therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the
aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they
are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the
municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has
power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit
some act that amounts to a forfeiture." -- Sir William Blackstone
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!), but "That's funny ..." --
Isaac Asimov
"There are only three kinds of people: those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened." --
Anonymous
"It is often easier to apologize for your actions than to ask permission
to do those actions." -- Anonymous
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples,
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have
two ideas." -- Attributed to George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will
not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world
is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are
omnipotent. The slogan `press on' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race." -- Attributed to Calvin Coolidge.
Unverified, though this appeared on the cover of the program of a
memorial service for him in 1933. The Forbes Library, Northampton,
Massachusetts, has searched its Coolidge collection many times for this.
"All cruelty springs from weakness." -- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
"As it is with a play, so it is with life -- what matters is not how long
the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point
you stop. Stop wherever you will -- only make sure that you round it off
with a good ending." -- Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 77
"He that violates his oath profanes the Divinity of faith itself." --
Cicero (found on LA City Hall)
"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced;
the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.
Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't
want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living
on public assistance." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
"Power and law are not synonymous. In truth they are frequently in
opposition and irreconcilable. There is God's Law from which all
Equitable laws of man emerge and by which men must live if they are not
to die in oppression, chaos and despair. Divorced from God's eternal and
immutable Law, established before the founding of the suns, man's power
is evil no matter the noble words with which it is employed or the
motives urged when enforcing it. Men of good will, mindful therefore of
the Law laid down by God, will oppose governments whose rule is by men,
and if they wish to survive as a nation they will destroy the government
which attempts to adjudicate by the whim of venal judges." -- Marcus
Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.
"Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for
comfort and a passive outlook." -- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom,
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values
more, it will lose that too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for
betterment. When compulsion is used only resentment is aroused, and the
end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to men's reason
can a movement succeed." -- Samuel Gompers
"Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his
liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of
life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent
upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but
the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension
of our faculties?" -- Bastiat
"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might
dodge sucessfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they
were bound to get you."
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Congress in 1974 passed the Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. Law
93-579, 88 Stat. 1896; as amended). Section 7 of Pub. Law 93-579
provides:
"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which
would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke
The trade deficit hit 111 billion last year. It is 14 billion with
Mexico alone. "free trade is the fastest way to social revolution." Karl
Marx 1848
> No true conservative could support free trade. Tarriffs are allowed
> for in the constitution. If a defender of the constitution is called a
> liberal or exrtemist, and a free trader is called a conservative then
> we have deep problems.
"We have placed too much hope in politics and social reforms,
only to find out that we were being deprived of our most
precious possession: our spiritual life."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn, _A World Split Apart_
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
to teenage boys.
--P/J. O'Rourke in Parliament of Whores
[The Founding Fathers] understood that republican self-government could not exist if humanity did not possess… the traditional "republican virtues" of self-control, self-reliance, and a disinterested concern for the public good.
--Irving Kristol in Reflections of a Neo-Conservative
Modern liberalism, for most liberals, is not a consciously understood set
of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined
sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they
are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the
background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.
-- James Burnham in Suicide of the West
I wanted to go home, but they wouldn’t let me.
-- Walker School student Sarah Seidensticker referring to Clinton aids
who reduced some of her classmates to tears as they were kept at school
until 9:00pm practicing what they would do and say during the
president’s recent visit.
"New Age Liberalism was in essence nothing more complicated or noble
than a running argument with life as it was led by normal Americans."
--R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., in _The Liberal Crackup_
Government growing beyond our consent had become a
lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity,
threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom.
What brought America back? The American people brought
us back--with quiet courage and common sense; with undying
faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours,
for the future belongs to the free.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
State of the Union Address, February 4, 1986
"They have the usual socialist disease; they have run out of other
people's money."
-Margaret Thatcher, in a speech to a Conservative Party Conference, 10 October 1975
"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and
the burder of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences
of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseperable."
--Friedrich Hayek, _The Consitution of Liberty_, 1960
"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
-James Q. Wilson in _Public Interest_, Fall 1985
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government
is competence, because it's so rare."
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan, _New York Times_, 2 March 1976
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-Albert Einstein, Attributed
"People say we are on the Washington diet. When you're on the
Washington diet you gain 10 pounds ... what kind of diet is that?
Well, they say 'If we weren't on the diet we'd gain 15 pounds!'"
--Presidential Candidate Steve Forbes speaking at CPAC '96
"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be
given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the
morality of the judge."
--Robert Bork, American Enterprise Institute, 1984
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