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The Purpose of FreeRepublic
Basic Citizen Education
Declaration of Independence 1776
Articles of Confederation 1781
United States Constitution 1788
The Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers
Amendments to U.S. Constitution
DAR Manual for Citizenship
Cornerstones of Liberty
Educated citizensResearch Resources
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Freedom of assembly and association
Freedom of movement
Individual responsibility
Involved citizens
Large middle class
Minimal government
Moral standards
Patriotism
Self-discipline
Sensible laws
Separation of powers between local, state, and federal government
Separation of powers between executive, legislative, and judicial branches
Widespread individual ownership of property
Widespread ownership of personal firearms
Dictionary.com---excellent online dictionaryOther Links
Google.com---excellent search engine
Library of Congress---the research arm of Congress
U.S. Judicial Branch Resources
State by State Government Land Ownership---The federal govt owns 31.1% of all US land. The state governments own 8.7%.
FORCES---consumer rights org (focus on smokers)
PollingReport.com---An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion
The Constitution Society---Good site for Constitutional issues research
Separation of School and State---Compulsory state funded education allows the state to indoctrinate children.
Contributions by Member States to the United Nations regular budget for the year 2001---USA equals 22 percent of UN budget
Timeline to Global Governance---Global Progress from 1891 to 2002
Still Waiting For Greenhouse---Anti-Global Warming
U.S. House of Representatives---official govt linkQuotes and excerpts.....
U.S. Senate---official govt link
Neal Boortz ---Libertarian Radio Host
Who were the best...and worst U.S. Presidents? by John Silveira---ranking Presidents by ability to uphold the Constitution
Our Constitution was stolen in 1933---link to the Google search engine
Expansionist Party of the United States; United States International---British States, Canadian States
The Atlantic, March 2002 "1491" by Charles C. Mann---Pre-Columbus people built the Amazon Rainforests and shaped the environment
The Hegelian Principle in Education---Why education is headed downhill
www.constitution.org/lanc/monitorial.htmAnti-quotes and excerpts.....
---Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) led a movement to establish schools.....in which more advanced students taught less advanced ones, enabling a small number of adult masters to educate large numbers of students at low cost in basic and often advanced skills. From about 1798 to 1830 it was highly influential, but was displaced by the "modern" system of grouping students into age groups taught using the lecture method, led by such educators as Horace Mann, and later inspired by the assembly-line methods of Frederick Taylor.....www.sepschool.com
---It may be a jarring statement, but for more than three full lifetimes - the 220 years from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.Qui docet, discit
---He who teaches, learns.Adams, Samuel (1722-1803)
---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 counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.Bastiat, Frederic (1801-1850)
---The State is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.George, Henry (1839-1897)
---It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from the aggressions on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.George, Henry (1839-1897) - Progress and Poverty
Goldwater, Barry
--- A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.Keyes, Alan
---The income tax in effect makes us vassals to the government – the politicians decide how much income we can keep.Kinsley, Michael E. - [from: an editorial in The New Republic, February 12, 1992]
---Ideally, all taxes should be zero because all taxes discourage the activity being taxed. (The exception is the land tax, as Henry George famously noted, because land has nowhere to go.) Taxes on labor discourage work and encourage sloth. Taxes on capital discourage thrift and encourage consumption.Madison, James - 1789
--- If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may seek the provision of the poor… (all of which) would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.Rand, Ayn
---The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
--- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need 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 pull than by hard work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you. When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice. You may know your society is doomed.Reagon, Ronald
---If we do not stand up to be counted, we will have to line up to be numbered.Shaw, George Bernard
---A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.Smith, Adam - The Wealth of Nations
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Sowell, Thomas
--- The poverty rate among blacks fell by half between 1940 and 1960, before any of the major federal civil rights legislation or the vast expansion of the welfare state under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...In short, most blacks raised themselves out of poverty, but their leaders robbed them of this achievement and the respect it deserved ...by making it seem like a concession from the government and a product of agitation.Tacitus
"Corruptissima res publica plurimae leges."
The more corrupt the state is then the more numerous the laws.Twight, Charlotte [from Dependent on D.C., as quoted by Walter Williams]
--- There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.Tytler, Sir Alex Fraser (1742-1813). Scottish jurist and historian:
---A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.Williams, Walter
---According to the most recent U.S. Treasury Department figures, in 1997 the top 1 percent of income-earners (those with income of $250,000 and higher) paid 33 percent of all federal income taxes. The top 5 percent of income-earners ($108,000 and over) paid 52 percent, and the top 50 percent ($36,000 and over) paid 96 percent of income taxes. Guess what the bottom 50 percent of income earners paid?
Gramsci, AntonioPolitical isms
---Power is best attained in developed countries by gradual takeover of the cultural institutions of society. The process in turn transforms the values and morals of the society. As society's morals were softened, its political and economic foundation would be easily reconstructed.Marx, Karl
---From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469-1527)- The Prince
---The end justifies the means.
Communism
---Government ownership and control of everything within the state. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.Fascism
---Private ownership of industry with government control.Socialism
---Government ownership and control of industry. Everyone is an employee of the government. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his abilities.Statism
---The doctrine that your life, money and property are not yours, but the property of the state. You may act only by the permission of others. The power a statist wields comes from the willing support of the victim (you).