Posted on 02/20/2004 10:56:25 PM PST by april15Bendovr
"The United Nations gun-grabbers don't care about our Constitution and they don't care about national sovereignty. The UN always wants to expand its power, and global gun control goes hand-in-hand with global government. Every American who cares about the 2nd Amendment should oppose this latest UN attempt to dictate our domestic laws. There is no question that the UN ultimately seeks to impose worldwide gun control, although it has no legal or moral authority to do so."
" This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the Commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.
When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken....There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any 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. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens?
What's there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
“Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hand of the people.”
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
"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."
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."
“Those who give up their freedom to save their property, shall ultimately lose both!”
"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene."
"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. ... It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; ...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped. ... The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."
“Those who give up their freedom to save their property, shall ultimately lose both!”
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent ...till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery. And the foreshores of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”
"Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible."
"...as I'm suppose to do but as some folks forget to do these days, I'll offer you as well an admonition. An admonition is a piece of advice that comes in the form of a warning. And this one someone offered to me early in my career in government. And I thank God that I never forgot it because if I had, I would have probably lost myself long ago.
We have to go out in this world, and you can sell your talent, you can sell your knowledge. You can sell your time and you can sell your labor. You will be bought and sold on the auction block of many different marketplaces where all of these things will be toted up and valued by others and you eventually too will be the judge. But if you are going to follow my advice today and remember nothing else then just remember this.
There's not a single thing on offer in this all too temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Hold on to this. Be true to that in you which if you are willing to respect its truth, will not fail, will never desert, and will in the end, not turn into dust even when you have shuffled off this mortal coil. For I think that there is a light in us, a little spark of God's divinity. And if we husband and shelter its truth then we can make it into a light that glows beyond the edges of this time, to light a path to others, in our families, in our nation, in the world. But also to be a light whose spreading ripples in the voids of time we cannot calculate and whose ultimate fate we do not know.
In some sense, I think, this is a home we can build for our humanity that lasts beyond anything else we can hope for. Be true to that little promise of it that you have and come what may, your life will be, in your own eyes and in the eyes of God, the success you hope for."
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is not virtue!"
"A national ID card -- complete with an encoded computer chip and biometric 'tags' such as fingerprints or retinal scans -- came one step closer to becoming a creepy reality ... when Reps. James P. Moran and Thomas M. Davis introduced legislation that would require their adoption by all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
... Their bill would give the federal government unprecedented access to information about our daily lives that ought to frighten any sensible person.
Every transaction we make, every trip we take, every time we produce a driver's license to conduct business would be noted and recorded in a government database. And with the national ID 'smart card' almost certainly being linked -- at first, or after Americans get used to the idea -- to our financial lives in every critical respect (checking accounts, credit cards, etc.) there won't be anything the government, its myriad agencies and even private-sector contractors, won't know about us except our never-voiced thoughts -- the last realm of privacy that may be left to Americans a decade from now. ... What Messrs. Moran and Davis have proposed is, in fact, 'a system that will erode individual freedom and increase governmental power without significantly improving safety,' as Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center puts it.
He and other civil libertarians ridicule the government's straw man -- that a national ID will prevent future terrorist attacks. They argue, convincingly, that well-funded criminals and would-be terrorists will always find a way to get around such a system. Only the average citizen would find himself under the ever-present watchful eye of government.
As with gun control, the national ID will result in diminished freedom and privacy for law-abiding citizens who pose no threat to honest government but are objects of these ever escalating, police-state tactics.
The national ID card is a terrible idea, perhaps born of good intentions -- which should nonetheless be dropped before we get more than we bargained for."
"But with the adoption of the income-tax amendment in 1913, the amount of money people retained as their own became totally subject to the will of the government. Congress might set the percentage high or low, but that wasn't really the point. The point was that by granting public officials the unfettered power to determine the percentage of income tax, government became the determiner of how much of their income people would be permitted to keep.
The Sixteenth Amendment effectively nationalized people's income and placed them on a government allowance."
"And He said, "Woe unto you also ye lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens to grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burden with one of your fingers."
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered."
"Every legislator, every doctor, and every citizen needs to recognize that the real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of all human life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued and others are not. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the 'quality of life' ethic."
"I see creeping fascism in America, just as in Germany, a drip at a time: a law here, a law there, all supposedly passed to protect the public. The German people really believed that only hoodlums owned such unregistered guns.
What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mind-set."
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."
“The United Nations is the Greatest Fraud in all History It's Purpose is to Destroy the United States.”
"The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen."
"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle!
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
"If the jury' does not judge the law, the facts, and ALL of the evidence, then they are merely the tools, rather than the barrier against the tyranny and oppression of the government.”
It is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but it is also their right and their primary and paramount duty, to judge of the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws.”
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself...they are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."
His answer:
"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to simply arrange the meeting."
Please let me know if you do find it... I'll occasionally look myself to no avail.
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
--Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
--John Philpot Curran
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.
--John Wayne
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
--Woody Guthrie
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.
--William Jefferson Clinton
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
--Gaius Petronius (~27-66 A.D.)
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned.
--Thomas Jefferson
Some of the most elaborate solutions do nothing to improve productivity.
--Unknown
Nothing in the world can take
The place of Persistence.
Talent will not; Nothing is more
Common than unsuccessful
Men with talent; Genius will not;
Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not;
The world is full
of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination
Alone are omnipotent.
--Calvin Coolidge
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm..
--Vince Lombardi
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
--Jonathan Swift
Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew.
--Charlie Papazian
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
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