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[Quote No.34202] Need Area: Friends > General
"[No individual or group should believe and request the omniscient help of government. There are limitations to government power both natural and legal. Governments that try to overstep these bounds eventually suffer horribly along with their citizens for their hubris. The sort of unreasonable requests were parodied by the French economist, Frederic Bastiat during the 1800s, such as the following example.] We (French candlemakers) are suffering from the ruinous competition of a foreign rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun.
We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat." - Frederic Bastiat
French economist in the 1800s.
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[Quote No.34203] Need Area: Friends > General
"[For those people that believe in big government remember this lesson from history...] A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Barry Goldwater
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[Quote No.34205] Need Area: Friends > General
"The price good men [and women] pay for indifference to [politics and] public affairs is to be ruled by evil men [and women]." - Plato
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[Quote No.34206] Need Area: Friends > General
"The more corrupt [suspicious, egotistical and arrogant] the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
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[Quote No.34207] Need Area: Friends > General
"The end move in [disfunctional] politics is always to pick up a gun [physical force]." - R. Buckminster Fuller
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[Quote No.34211] Need Area: Friends > General
"Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire." - Major Jim McDonough
Retired Marine
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[Quote No.34212] Need Area: Friends > General
"I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press." - Frederic Bastiat
French economist
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[Quote No.34213] Need Area: Friends > General
"Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.)" - Unknown
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[Quote No.34214] Need Area: Friends > General
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Quote No.34217] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men [and women] show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)
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[Quote No.34218] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians should remember...] The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing and letting people live their own lives, so long as they don't hurt others or their property]." - Lao Tzu
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[Quote No.34219] Need Area: Friends > General
"A government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have." - Gerald Ford
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34220] Need Area: Friends > General
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt!" - Marcus Tullinus Cicero
Roman Senator, 63 B.C.
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[Quote No.34221] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Sometimes people will put a negative spin on anything you do...] If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" - Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34222] Need Area: Friends > General
"The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector." - Henry Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830)
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[Quote No.34223] Need Area: Friends > General
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." - Henry Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830)
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[Quote No.34224] Need Area: Friends > General
"Support your country always and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.34225] Need Area: Friends > General
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel
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[Quote No.34227] Need Area: Friends > General
"We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state." - Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.34228] Need Area: Friends > General
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money." - Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.34230] Need Area: Friends > General
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry
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[Quote No.34232] Need Area: Friends > General
"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace." - Charles Sumner
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[Quote No.34233] Need Area: Friends > General
"In war the first casualty is the truth." - Aeschylus
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[Quote No.34234] Need Area: Friends > General
"When politicians presume to do God's work [of looking after those that cannot look after themselves], they do not become divine but diabolical [by removing everyones' freedom and many's private property]." - Pope Benedict XVI
(1927 - ), Previously known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
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[Quote No.34235] Need Area: Friends > General
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." - Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President. January 12, 1848.
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[Quote No.34236] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato
(427 BC - 347 BC)
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[Quote No.34238] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." - Marine Major General Smedley Butler
Marine Major General
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[Quote No.34239] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Imperialism:] War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the 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 very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes... I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. [Please refer to: corporatism, corporativism, military industrial complex, ‘The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption’- A book by John Perkins, IMF International Monetary Fund, World Bank, global/world reserve currency - US petrodollar - US dollar hegemony, etc.]" - U.S. Major General Smedley Butler
U.S. Marine Major General. One of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor. In his 1987 biography of Butler, 'Maverick Marine', Hans Schmidt gave a brief review: 'Butler's particular contribution was his recantation, denouncing war on moral grounds after having been a warrior hero and spending most of his life as a military insider. The theme remained vigorously patriotic and nationalistic, decrying imperialism as a disgrace rooted in the greed of a privileged few.'
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[Quote No.34240] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people." - Ron Paul
U.S. Congressman (Republican Party)
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[Quote No.34241] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.34242] Need Area: Friends > General
"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace." - Ulysses S. Grant
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[Quote No.34243] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead." - Omar N. Bradley
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[Quote No.34244] Need Area: Friends > General
"After all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy [regarding going to war], and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament or a communist dictatorship... the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Hermann Goering
Nazi, Nuremberg trials in 1945
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[Quote No.34246] Need Area: Friends > General
"We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box." - unknown, but sometimes attributed to U.S. Congressman Larry P. McDonald
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[Quote No.34247] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Never forget there is a difference between conscription and voluntary military service.] (During World War II, Joseph Stalin, the leader of Communist Russia) was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer." - Ron Paul
U.S. Congressman (Republican). Quote from 'Freedom Under Seige'.
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[Quote No.34249] Need Area: Friends > General
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." - Charles de Gaulle
The dominant political leader and grand figurehead of France during and after World War II.
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[Quote No.34251] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am for freedom of the press..." - Thomas Jefferson
1799
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[Quote No.34252] Need Area: Friends > General
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years...
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage." - Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee
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[Quote No.34254] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
1755
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[Quote No.34255] Need Area: Friends > General
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad." - James Madison
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[Quote No.34256] Need Area: Friends > General
"War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror." - Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973), famous economist.
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[Quote No.34257] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." - Robert A. Heinlein
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[Quote No.34258] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. [He however must be careful not to overstep the bounds of commonsense in the process lest he become a tyrant himself, in the name of liberty.]" - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.34259] Need Area: Friends > General
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34261] Need Area: Friends > General
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men [and women] with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
English historian - from Lectures on Modern History, 1906, 'Beginning of the Modern State'.
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[Quote No.34263] Need Area: Friends > General
"Bastiat's Moral Law for politicians and citizens: See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them; and gives it to persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil in itself, but also is a fertile source for further evils, for it invites reprisals. If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply and develop into a system [which will eventually erupt]." - Frederic Bastiat
French economist and social theorist.
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[Quote No.34266] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination." - Harry Truman
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34267] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34268] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political language is designed to make lies sounds truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
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[Quote No.34269] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries." - Henry Wotton
(1568 - 1639)
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