“You Swiss are so proud of your 500,000-man citizen militia…. But what will you do if a 1,000,000-man German Army comes marching across your border?”

“That’s easy. Each of us will shoot twice, and go home.”

~ A reported conversation between a German and a Swiss diplomat, circa 1939

"And do not forget the petty scoundrels in this regime; note their names, so that none will go free! They should not find it possible, having had their part in these abominable crimes, at the last minute to rally to another flag and then act as if nothing had happened!"

-- From the fourth leaflet of the White Rose Resistance in Germany, 1942. Five students and a professor who wrote and distributed the leaflets were executed in 1943.

Who is the real New Gingrich? Part 1

Who is the real New Gingrich? Part 2

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."

Frederic Bastiat