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Brian Allen
Since Sep 24, 1999

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Brian Allen -- AKA: "brallen" -- [June 26 1998]

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1800

Me too! Upon the Exact same altar!

-- Brian Allen, 1997

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."

-- George Washington, 1793

"[Being American] is a question of principles, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

--Thomas Paine

"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years.

"I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe.

"I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air -- that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress and of no permanent value.

"I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."

-- H.L. Mencken

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. 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."

-- John Stuart Mill

"O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!"

-- Thomas Paine

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; ...that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate systematical job of reducing us to slaves."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"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, followed always by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."

--Alexander Fraser Tytler

"All men would necessarily be equal if they were free from needs. It is want that subjects one man to another - not that inequality is in itself an evil, but dependency is. It does not matter if someone is called Your Highness and someone else His Holiness, but it is grievous to slave for the one or the other."

--Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"... it is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.."

--Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing new in this world is the history you do not know." "

-- Brother Harry S Truman

"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."

-- Thomas Jefferson