LIBERTY and DESPOTISM

George Washington A free people ought not only to be armed,

but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies. First Annual
Message United States [New York] January 8th 1790

Benjamin Franklin:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. "Free men are not equal, equal men are not free!" Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords -Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them. --Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775

John Adams
The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to know that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion: that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. ~ John Adams

Samuel Adams

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

Thomas Paine

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the People; the Constitution is an instrument for the People to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives .

Abraham Lincoln First inaugural address, March 4, 1861

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary' right to dismember or overthrow it."

Teddy Roosevelt "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To

anger a liberal, tell him the truth."

John F. Kennedy "Those who make peaceful revolution

impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Ronald Reagan: No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of

the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear

cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. Our coins bear the words 'In God We Trust'. We take the oath of office asking His help in keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a nation under God when we pledge allegiance to the flag. But we can't mention His name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are nondenominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "You can tell a communist by that he reads Lenin and Marx" And how to tell an anti-Communist? "He understands Lenin and Marx" "I notice that everybody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born."

Winston Churchill: The inherent vice of capitalism is the

unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. "There are two places where socialism will work; In Heaven where it isn't needed; and in Hell, where they already have it."

Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Albert Einstein

The world is a very dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about them."

Aristotle
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living ?

Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism. The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If for the sake of (godless) communism we must destroy nine tenths of the people, we must not hesitate. "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty. The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.

Joseph Stalin
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic. Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Roger Baldwin quotes 1884-1981, Founder of ACLU

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

a ruler of a State."

Zhuang Zi "A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes

Plutarch An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and

most fatal ailment of all republics.

Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji

"When all other means have failed, it is then righteous to take the sword in the hand."

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen -- of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

This is David Rockefeller

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If thats the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. (Himself talking on page 405, In 2002, Random House, in New York, published his Memoirs. Remember, this is not someone accusing him of something.)

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Adolph Hitler
"Give me the youth, and Germany will rule the World" Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death What luck for the rulers that men do not think. Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

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."

Reverend Martin Niemoeller, quotes about Nazi:

In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.

Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940 "When any

government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anythingyou can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

John Maynard Keynes

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an

influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.

Government and Laws

George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Lao-Tzu quotes

Government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

Thomas Jefferson: A government big enough to give you

everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.

John Adams

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

Aristotle: "The only stable state is she one in which all

men are equal before the law.

Mother Teresa
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more laws, the less justice. 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. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Aristotle Those who are ignorant of politics, are destined to be

ruled by inferior men.

Winston Churchill: If you have ten thousand regulations you

destroy all respect for the law.

Tolstoy

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

George Bernard Shaw "Do not follow where the path

may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

ISLAM
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." Omar Ahmad, Chairman Emeritus, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Gun Control
Thomas Jefferson:
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect

themselves against tyranny in government.

Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential Liberty,

to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Sigmund Freud

Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

Robert A. Heinlein You can have peace. Or you can have

freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty. The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Adolph Hitler

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

Janet Reno

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. Gun registration is not enough

Captain Combat

Remember kids, if there's a loaded gun in the room, be sure that you're the one holding it.

Congressman Bob Dornan

"The Second Amendment isn\'t about hunting deer, it\'s about hunting politicians."

GEORGE ORWELL

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborers cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

Pope John Paul II, EVANGELIUM VITAE, 1995

"Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD

Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killers hands.)

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Gun control defined: The theory that people who are willing to ignore laws against rape, torture, kidnapping, theft, and murder will obey a law which prohibits them from owning a firearm.

Mohandas Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest

Ayn Rand

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle. Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see

that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Any alleged right of one man which necessitates the violation of the right of another, is not, and cannot be a right. The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love

freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the

best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person. The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Education doesn't make you smarter. Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond wordsBy means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a long time I considered it mere words. How could that be possible? When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything? Ennobled, uplifted, yes - but whom has it saved? There is, however, a certain peculiarity in the essence of beauty, a peculiarity in the status of art: namely, the convincingness of a true work of art is completely irrefutable and it forces even an opposing heart to surrender. It is possible to compose an outwardly smooth and elegant political speech, a headstrong article, a social program, or a philosophical system on the basis of both a mistake and a lie. What is hidden, what distorted, will not immediately become obvious. Then a contradictory speech, article, program, a differently constructed philosophy rallies in opposition - and all just as elegant and smooth, and once again it works. Which is why such things are both trusted and mistrusted. In vain to reiterate what does not reach the heart. But a work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one. But those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force -

they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. So perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth? If the tops of these three trees converge, as the scholars maintained, but the too blatant, too direct stems of Truth and Goodness are crushed, cut down, not allowed through - then perhaps the fantastic, unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push through and soar to that very same place, and in so doing will fulfil the work of all three? In that case Dostoevsky's remark, "Beauty will save the world", was not a careless phrase but a prophecy? After all he was granted to see much, a man of fantastic illumination. And in that case art, literature might really be able to help the world today? The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul. Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. Our envy of others devours us most of all. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. This it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements. We didn't love freedom enough. Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again. The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago? Hour by hour planes fly there, ships steer their course there, and trains thunder off to it--but all with nary a mark on them to tell of their destination. And at ticket windows or at travel bureaus for Soviet or foreign tourists the employees would be astounded if you were to ask for a ticket to go there. They know nothing and they've

never heard of the Archipelago as a whole or any one of its innumerable islands. Those who go to the Archipelago to administer it get there via the training schools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Those who go there to be guards are conscripted via the military conscription centers. And those who, like you and me, dear reader, go there to die, must get there solely and compulsorily via arrest. Arrest! Need it be said that it is a breaking point in your life, a bolt of lightning which has scored a direct hit on you? That it is an unassimilable spiritual earthquake not every person can cope with, as a result of which people often slip into insanity? The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. Each of us is a center of the Universe, and that Universe is shattered when they hiss at you: "You are under arrest." If you are arrested, can anything else remain unshattered by this cataclysm? But the darkened mind is incapable of embracing these displacements in our universe, and both the most sophisticated and the veriest simpleton among us, drawing on all life's experience, can gasp out only: "Me? What for?" And this is a question which, though repeated millions and millions of times before, has yet to receive an answer. Arrest is an instantaneous, shattering thrust, expulsion, somersault from one state into another. We have been happily borneor perhaps have unhappily dragged our weary waydown the long and crooked streets of our lives, past all kinds of walls and fences made of rotting wood, rammed earth, brick, concrete, iron railings. We have never given a thought to what lies behind them. We have never tried to penetrate them with our vision or our understanding. But there is where the Gulag country begins, right next to us, two yards away

from us. In addition, we have failed to notice an enormous number of closely fitted, well-disguised doors and gates in these fences. All those gates were prepared for us, every last one! And all of a sudden the fateful gate swings quickly open, and four white male hands, unaccustomed to physical labor but nonetheless strong and tenacious, grab us by the leg, arm, collar, cap, ear, and drag us in like a sack, and the gate behind us, the gate to our past life, is slammed shut once and for all. That's all there is to it! You are arrested! And you'll find nothing better to respond with than a lamblike bleat: "Me? What for?" That's what arrest is: it's a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality. That's all. And neither for the first hour nor for the first day will you be able to grasp anything else. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Live not by lies! Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted""not permitted""this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. ...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends. Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not

concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.' A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out. It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheelerdealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. "The plaintiff simply had no constitutional or federal right to have the police respond to their calls for assistance or to receive police protection against potential harm caused by private parties."(the New York Times, June 28,1993, p. 3.). Reference to a lawsuit by the family of a Hassidic Jew beaten to death in front of police in NYC.

Alexander Tyler, 1750

"Nations and empires actually do have "life cycles." This has been studied by many historians throughout the years and they all have come to about the same conclusion: a lifetime of about two centuries. And they all seem to go through the same life cycle: "from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependence back again into bondage.

Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 2005

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Dresden James

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." "A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a wellpackaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

FREE SPEECH
George Washington
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

Benjamin Franklin
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The Press and Truth

Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819 I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Benjamin Franklin "Half a truth is often a great lie."

Miscellaneous
Mark Twain
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Napoleon Bonaparte:

Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Dresden James

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a wellpackaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900 "He who wants to persuade

should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right

word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."

Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back, 1976 "A great deal

of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

TAXES
Benjamin Franklin: It would be thought a hard government
that should tax its people one tenth part.

Thomas Jefferson
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be

described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fiftyseven feet of books.. Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled. There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace. It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. The current tax code is a daily mugging. Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Will Rodgers

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Mark Twain

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Banking
Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to
pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)

Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital Owners of capital will

stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

Humor and Wisdom

Mark Twain quotes
The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

U.S. Army General George S. Patton Jr.

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

Will Rodgers

There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf. I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'. Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom. The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.

WISDOM
CHINESE PROVERBS: A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den. Dig the well before you are thirsty. A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction. Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Xi Zhi:
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Kong Fu Zi
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar) (12 AD - 41 AD)

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after

equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Give thy thoughts no tongue. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Never spend your money before you have it. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Letter to Count Diodati, 1807 No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. Letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792 Health is worth more than learning. Letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790 If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798 An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813

Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know

Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all of the time.

C. S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'

Patricia Sampson
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."

Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Robert Heinlein Never underestimate the power of human

stupidity.

Mohandas Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

R.Reagan "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that

they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Isaac Asimov
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Woody Allen

"I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not dying."

BIBLE QUOTES
Jesus himself taught, You will recognize them by their fruits (Matthew 7:16).

NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM

Tecumseh quotes:
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Treat all men alike. Give them the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

George Catlin - 1868 "I love a people who have always

made me welcome to the best they had ... who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouse ... who never take the name of God in vain ... who worship God

without a Bible, and I believe that God loves them also ... who are free from religious animosities...who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my property, where there was no law to punish either ... who never fought a battle with white men except on their own ground ... and Oh! how I love a people who don't live for the love of money."

Luther Standing Bear-Sioux

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one: they promised to take our land and they took it. It was not hard to see that the white people coveted every inch of land on which we lived. Greed. Humans wanted the last bit of ground which supported Indian feet. It was land - it has ever been land - for which the White man oppresses the Indian and to gain possession of which he commits any crime. Treaties that have been made are vain attempts to save a little of the fatherland, treaties holy to us by the smoke of the pipe - but nothing is holy to the white man. Little by little, with greed and cruelty unsurpassed by the animal, he has taken all. The loaf is gone and now the white man wants the crumbs."...

Chief Blackhawk
"How smooth must be the languages of the whites. When they can make the right look wrong and wrong look right".

Cherokee tale: An old Cherokee was teaching his

grandchildren about life. He said, A battle is raging inside meit is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. The old man looked at the children with a firm stare. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too. They thought about it for a

minute, and then one child asked his grandfather, Which wolf will win? The old Cherokee replied: The one you feed.

Keeping our mouths shut

William Shakespeare Listen to many, speak to a few. Dionysus the Elder
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Winston Churchill
.Proverb PP

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Proverbs
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Will Rogers

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

FEAR & COURAGE

Marcus Tullius Cicero
True nobility is exempt from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.-

Robert A. Heinlein
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)

Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.

Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear.

Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Winston Churchill Tolstoy

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

John F. Kennedy:

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

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IF YOU WAKE UP BREATHING, EVERYTHING ELSE IS WORKABLE, FIXABLE, SHOOTABLE, OR JUST DOESN\'T MATTER.

John Wayne
"Life's tough......It's even tougher if you're stupid."

Violence
Dr. Martin Luther King The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

WARFARE
George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

Thomas Jefferson

"The "medium of war" was the only way to put and end to the Muslim problem." -

James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Sun Tzu
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. "When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent him fighting with the courage of despair.

Napoleon Bonaparte: Never interrupt your enemy when hes

making a mistake

Abraham Lincoln

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged

Carl von Clausewitz, ( Prussian general and western military philosopher.)

"War is the continuation of politics by other means. "

"We are not interested in generals who win victories without bloodshed. The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.

Otto von Bismark :

"The great questions of the day will be decided not by speeches and majority votes... but by iron and blood."

Winston Churchhill

"War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale." Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

General Douglas MacArthur

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

General George S. Patton

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. "Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching." It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we been prepared. It is my belief that adequate preparation on our part would have prevented or materially shortened all our other wars beginning with that of 1812. Yet, after each of our wars, there has always been a great hue and cry to the effect that there will be no more wars, that disarmament is the sure road to health, happiness, and peace; and that by removing the fire department, we will remove fires. These ideas spring from wishful thinking and from the erroneous belief that wars result from logical processes. There is no logic in wars. They are produced by madmen. No man can say when future madmen will reappear. I do not say that there will be no more wars; I devoutly hope that there will not, but I do say that

the chances of avoiding future wars will be greatly enhanced if we are ready It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. "It (the Siegfried Line) is a monument to human stupidity. When natural obstacles -oceans and mountains - can be so readily overcome, anything that man makes, man can overcome."

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ~ George Bernard Shaw A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ~ G. Gordon Liddy Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ~ James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ~ Douglas Casey, Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~ Frederic

Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~ Ronald Reagan (1986) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! ~ P.J. O'Rourke In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ~ Voltaire (1764) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! ~ Pericles (430 B.C.) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. ~ Mark Twain (1866 ) Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. ~ Anonymous The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ~ Ronald

Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ~ Winston Churchill There is no distinctly Native American criminal class ... save Congress. ~ Mark Twain What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ~

Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) Unknown "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool".