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"[Morality and ethics:] Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline." - Lewis Mumford
(1895 - 1990)
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"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress." - Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821) French emperor. Source: Political Aphorisms (1848).
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"[Small, power-limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist government:] Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress." - Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821) French emperor. Source: Political Aphorisms (1848).
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"[Morality and ethics; equal individual informed free consent - 'Live and let live so long as there is freedom from force and fraud':] Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance." - Bill Maher
(1956 - ) , comedian, actor, and writer.
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"[Morality and ethics; 'Live and let live so long as there is freedom from force and fraud'; individuality, authenticity, diversity:] The more enlarged a mind becomes in its views of men and the world, the less it will be disposed to denounce the varieties of opinion and pursuit, and the more it will enjoy the benevolent results to which wisdom and philosophy point. A narrow mind chafes itself by its own prejudices; but a man, who is accustomed to generalise his observations, principles, and feelings, and to subdue his prejudices by a practical philanthropy, acquires an habitual superiority to the inequalities and provocations of society, and has learned the divine art of extracting good from evil." - Amasa Delano
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels [1817]
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"[Morality and ethics: 'live and let live - if free from force and fraud':] Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason." - Baron Charles de Montesquieu
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"[Anger:] If you wanna hurt yourself, go ahead and hate somebody." - Mark Laita
Photographer who runs the youtube channel Soft White Underbelly where he interviews people who have a dark past. [Refer quote from interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o5Ip4xM32M&ab_channel=KoncreteKLIPS ]
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"[Morality and ethics; 'Live and let live' so long as free from force and fraud; diversity, individuality, authenticity:] The nail that sticks out - so long as free from force and fraud - should'nt get hammered down." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
Reverse of the Japanese Proverb 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.'
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"[Morality and ethics; the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would like to be treated; equal freedom from force and fraud; identity, individuality, authenticity, diversity; As much freedom as is possible, that doesn't hurt other's equal right to the same degree of freedom, is vital to human happiness because...] A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Gustav Jung
(1875-1961), famous psychiatrist. Quote from his book, 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul', published 1933.
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibilities; small, limited-power government versus big, expensive, power-hungry, interfering government:] Nothing is so galling to people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal, or, in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear." - T.B. MacAulay
Southey's Colloquies [1830]
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"[Politicians and crisis; War, propaganda and human rights:] Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war
have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so." - Albert J. Beveridge
(1862-1927) American historian, US Senator (R-IN).
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts: In many cases...] War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." - Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
(1881-1940) Major General USMC, "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling", most highly decorated military man from the pre-World War II era. Source: from a speech in 1933.
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"[Morality and ethics; imaginative empathy, forgiveness, generosity and kindness in order to follow the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would like to be treated in that situation or perhaps even a little better to err with a margin of safety and love:] A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792 - 1822), English Romantic poet
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"[Morality and ethics; Freedom from force and fraud:] Why is honesty so vital? Because where honesty and integrity are present, other virtues follow. ... Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society." - Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon Bitner Hinckley was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from March 1995 until his death in January 2008 at age 97. Quote from his book 'Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes'.
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"[Freedom from force and fraud; propaganda:] If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether." - Neil Postman
(1931 - 2003), American writer and academic. Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
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"[Freedom from force and fraud; propaganda:] I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799), first President of the United States
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"[Freedom from force and fraud; politicians, politics and propaganda:] The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only 'the first step toward greatness' - it is greatness itself." - Christian Nestell Bovee
(1820 - 1904), American writer. Reported in Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), p. 133.
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"[Morality and ethics; Freedom from force and fraud:] The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only 'the first step toward greatness' - it is greatness itself." - Christian Nestell Bovee
(1820 - 1904), American writer. Reported in Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), p. 133.
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"[Freedom from force and fraud: Doubt guards against falsities, mistakes and propaganda and therefore uninformed consent:-] Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. ...The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. ...always inviting the insolence of power." - George William Foote
(1850 - 1915), British secularist and journal editor. "The Gospel of Freethought", p. 104 (1893).
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"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press:-] The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish." - Robert H. Jackson
(1892-1954), US Supreme Court justice.
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"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:-] If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'. Source: Address to officers of the Army, 15 March 1783.
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"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:-] A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve it's high purpose when it indices a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with things as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for understanding." - Justice Potter Stewart
(1915-1985) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Source: in Free Speech and Political Protest [Marvin Summers], 1967.
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"[Morality and ethics; Law and order; War and peace; Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Human Rights, in particular Justice, reasonably requires, in the social contract, as a bare minimum, informed consent and therefore freedom from force and fraud. Because of this 'might is right' 'trial by combat', including war, - where God is supposed to decide by supporting who is right - and perjury to persuade others unfairly cannot be accepted as just. It is not the 'Law of civilized human society' but rather the 'Law of savage animals'!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics; 'live and let live' so long as there is informed consent which means freedom from force and fraud:] Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us." - John Irving
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"[A social contract with freedom from force and fraud by only using persuasion and informed choice and majority decision; Regular democratic elections are important because...] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [As Abraham Lincoln said, 'Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.']" - John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) 35th US President. Source: In a speech at the White House, 1962.
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"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy..." - William Arthur Ward
(1921-1994), writer, educator and church lay leader.
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"[Beware conflicts and crises with belligerent politicians, politics and propaganda:] A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato
(429-347 BC) Greek philosopher. Source: The Republic.
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"[Philosophical and literary basis for the beginning of the US Declaration of Independence:] All men are by nature equal and free: No one has a right to any authority over another without his consent: All lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it: such consent was given with a view to ensure and to increase the happiness of the governed above what they could enjoy in an independent and unconnected state of nature. The consequence is, that the happiness of the society is the first law of every government." - James Wilson
Philadelphian Justice. Quote from his pamphlet 'Considerations on the Nature and the Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament', 1774, which is believed to have inspired Thomas Jefferson's 'original rough draft' for the Declaration of Independence. The crucial sentence is this:
'We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal and independant [sic], that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.' [Refer the book, 'The Life and Career of Justice James Wilson', edited by Randy E. Barnett.]
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"[Realpolitik security-based diplomacy and negotiations often regretfully requires secrecy and propaganda:] In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955)
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"[War, Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Morality and ethics; religion:] The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; [regrettably, under extreme conditions in particular, humanity - women and] men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
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"[Small limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist government:] All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America [1840]
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"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic." - A. J. P. Taylor
(1906-1990), Alan John Percivale Taylor, British historian.
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"[Morality and ethics - freedom from force and fraud; Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Whosoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor." - John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source: Second Treatise On Civil Government 153-54 (Chicago 1955).
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"I tell you true, liberty is the best of all things..." - William Wallace
Address to the Scots [c. 1300]
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"[The first casualty of war is the truth for the public of either side:] One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
" - General Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964) WWII Supreme Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific, Supreme United Nations Commander.
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"[Foreign policy:] There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation." - George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'.
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"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] French historian. Source: Democracy in America, 1835.
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"We should not underestimate the capacity of well-run propaganda systems to drive people to irrational, murderous, and suicidal behavior." - Noam Chomsky
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"Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required... [In fact] Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." - Noam Chomsky
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"[Beware the dangers of crony capitalism, including the influence of large and powerful domestic and foreign powers, stake-holders with misaligned incentives and unforeseen consequences of intervention. For example:...]
Has Russia Been Financing Western Environmentalism?
Have Western environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), movements and parties been possible, even unwitting, collaborators with the Russian government for the last ten years?
This question arises from a recent report by the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol) in Paris. Fondapol's director, Dominique Reynié, said in a recent interview:
'We have found Gazprom funding in particular environmental NGOs, which furnished certain European countries with ministers -- Belgium for example -- who then evidently embarked on a sort of return of favor by defending an exit from nuclear power.'
These allegations are not new.
The Guardian, already in 2014, quoted NATO's then Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, making the following accusation:
'I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.'
Below Europe's soil lie large reserves of shale gas, also known as bedrock gas. The exploitation of these natural gas reserves would have substantially reduced Europe's purchases of, and dependence on, Russia's gas -- in particular on its gas giant, Gazprom. The same is true of nuclear power, which offers Westerners an abundant, non-CO2-emitting energy source as an alternative to Russian gas.
Hence the interest, for the Russian government, in mounting a vast disinformation campaign against shale gas and nuclear power in the West, by massively financing the groups most likely 'naturally' to oppose it: environmentalist organizations.
On June 29, 2017, two of America's leading federal lawmakers on energy issues, US Representatives Randy Weber and Lamar Smith, sent a letter to then-Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, demanding an investigation into the funding of US environmental organizations by the government of the Russian Federation. According to The Hill:
'The letter notes that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained in a speech to a private audience in 2016, 'We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians ...''
Without providing direct proof of the origin of the funds -- that is not their role -- these two Congressmen demonstrated the mechanism, which can be summarized as follows: 'Funds from the Russian government -> Shell company 'incorporated' in Bermuda -> American foundation -> American environmental organizations.'
The advantage of Bermuda is that it does not require any disclosure that funds come from a foreign government, contrary to American law.
The Sea Change Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) private not-for-profit organization. As every American 501(c)(3), Sea Change must disclose that it has received funds from abroad -- in this instance a Bermuda company. Nothing more.
On March 11, 2022, US Representatives Jim Banks and Bill Johnson sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, asking for an investigation into the reported Russian manipulation of American 'green groups' that are seemingly funded with 'dark money' (anonymous donations). 'Russia spent millions promoting anti-energy policies and politicians in the U.S.,' Banks said to Fox News Digital.
'Now, thanks to Biden's war on domestic energy, U.S. oil production has dropped 10%, pushing up prices and enriching and emboldening Putin before he invaded Ukraine.... Unlike the Russia hoax, Putin's malign influence on our energy sector is real and deserves further investigation.'
Their letter noted:
'According to Sea Change's tax filing, in 2010 the group received $23 million, half of its total annual contributions, from a Bahamian shell corporation tied to the Russian government. Sea Change then passed that money to groups like the Sierra Club and the Center for American Progress who lobbied strongly against fracking and pro-energy policies, to reduce competition with Russian oil and gas. In 2020, the Center for American Progress donated over $800,000 exclusively to Democrat politicians and groups' and Sierra Club Independent Action spent $3.7 million supporting Democrat candidates.
'Russia also used its state media and social medial disinformation campaigns to attack America's energy industry. Russia Today is especially focused on energy policy. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Russia Today's coverage 'is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and US natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to Gazprom's profitability.' In 2021, after Biden's first year in office, Gazprom, a Russian state-owned energy company, earned record profits.'
The American environmental organizations specified by the letters are among the main ones, including the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, all of which are massively involved in the opposition to shale gas exploitation in the United States and which have received a total of $10 million a year from the American Sea Change Foundation, which is richly endowed by the Bermuda-based umbrella company.
In Germany, the leading environmental organizations WWF, BUND and NABU have set up an 'environmental' foundation — Naturschutzstiftung Deutsche Ostsee — with the company Nord Stream AG. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Nord Stream AG is an international consortium of five major companies established in 2005 for the planning, construction and subsequent operation of two 1,224-kilometre natural gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea. The five shareholders of the consortium are Gazprom International Projects LLC, Wintershall Dea AG, PEG Infrastruktur AG, N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie and ENGIE. Gazprom International Projects LLC holds a 51% stake in the pipeline project.
The 'environmental' Naturschutzstiftung Deutsche Ostsee was endowed with 10 million euros by Gazprom, as claimed by Nord Stream. These German environmental organizations WWF, BUND, NABU were, moreover, at the same time, fierce opponents of German civil nuclear power and of shale gas exploitation in Europe.
Notably, the example Dominique Reynié gave of the mechanism he described appears to be that of that of Belgium. Indeed, the current Belgian Federal Minister of Energy, Tinne Van der Straeten, of the environmentalist Groen Party, was, before she took office, the co-owner -- a 50% partner -- of a law firm one of whose "big" clients was none other than Gazprom, the Russian gas giant. When she became Minister of Energy in 2020, Van der Straeten worked on completely dismantling the Belgian civil nuclear park, in conformity with the fierce will of the environmentalists for almost twenty years, to replace it with gas-fired power plants, which will have to be supplied, among others, by -- Gazprom.
It is of course the nuclear industry that often best demonstrates the duplicity of certain environmentalist organizations. While these organizations constantly swear by the reduction of CO2 emissions in all things, when it comes to nuclear power, we see them demanding to replace an energy source that emits almost no CO2, with fossil fuels that emit forty times more. In Belgium, the green parties Ecolo and Groen explicitly advocate replacing nuclear reactors with gas-fired power plants.
Accusations of being financed by the Russian government, even if they are signed by the Secretary General of NATO, the Director of the Foundation for Political Innovation and the Secretary of State of the United States, do not make one guilty of corruption, conflict of interests, non-disclosure of being financed by and/or being an agent of a foreign government. The presumption of innocence applies to everyone.
The aggression on Ukraine by Russia, whose military is literally financed by European purchases of Russian gas -- which is 40% of the gas consumed in Europe -- obliges us to throw the full media and judicial spotlight on these accusations. In this respect, the recent call by the Republican Study Committee -- the largest group of conservatives in the US House of Representatives -- for Treasury Secretary Yellen to investigate whether Russian money financed USA green groups is a step in the right direction." - Drieu Godefridi
Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (Saint-Louis University of Louvain), a philosopher (Saint-Louis University of Louvain) and a doctor in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). [Refer https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/has-russia-been-financing-western-environmentalism, WEDNESDAY, MAR 16, 2022 - 04:30 PM, By Drieu Godefridi of The Gatestone Institute.]
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"[The social contract - foreign policy and international relations, including conflict and war, self-defense and martial arts:]
To have a national interest at all one must first have a nation, defined as a people within a territory, under a single government.
The first and most paramount national interest is preserving the security and safety of the people who make up the nation. This means both protecting them from threats from without by means of invasion, as well as protecting them from within from civil conflict and upheaval. It also means preserving the way of life, beliefs, and distinctiveness of a people. For Americans, that distinctiveness is based, in part, upon shared principles, articulated in our Declaration of Independence and forged in the fire of the revolution fought to secure them. But it is also grounded in the shared co-habitation and history together in this land, liberated by that revolution.
Failing to maintain this distinctiveness can break down what it means to be a people at all. The result can be factiousness, strife, and even civil war, a threat that the country’s founders well understood." - Kyle Shideler
Kyle Shideler is the director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy. [Refer https://americanmind.org/salvo/here-be-monsters/ , published March 14, 20200.]
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"[The social contract - national interests, foreign policy and international relations, including conflict and war, self-defense and martial arts:]
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests." - George Washington
First US President. Quote from his Farewell Address, which is best-known for its admonishment against entangling foreign alliances, also warns against the spread of factionalism, and the excessive love or hatred towards other nations which often breeds it.
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"[The social contract - national interests, foreign policy and international relations, including conflict and war, self-defense and martial arts; the Monroe Doctrine:]
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere, but with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." - James Monroe
US President. Quote from his communication which articulated what has become known as the Monroe Doctrine.
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"[The social contract - national interests, foreign policy and international relations, including conflict and war, self-defense and martial arts; America's interests:]
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adam
American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist, who served as the 6th president of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the 8th United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825.
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda:] Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies." - James Laver
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"[Poem: about Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda:]
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
" - William Shakespeare
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"[Style over substance, wrapping over contents; Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda:] An immoral character, glossed with religious pretension, is like a rotten egg with an Easter coloring." - Lewis F. Korns
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda:] We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach." - Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), British philosopher
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: for example...] We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom." - Abraham Lincoln
US President during the civil war.
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda:] Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves." - Noam Chomsky
(1928- ), American linguist, philosopher, social activist.
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