Worthy Quotations

        These quotations are loosely grouped in the following categories.  Clicking on the category name here should take you to the top of that particular group.
          Character
          Life
          Spiritual
          Medical
          Money
          Political

        Character:

        Watch your thoughts
        Watch your words
        Watch your actions
        Watch your habits
        Watch your character         		- they become your words
        - they become your actions
        - they become your habits
        - they become your character
        - it becomes your destiny
         
      • "In reality there is perhaps not one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself." ~ Benjamin Franklin 
      • "Nothing is more essential... than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable character." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." ~ H. L. Mencken
      • "A lie told often enough becomes accepted truth." ~ Vladimir Lenin
      • "When we were kids our parents taught us not to lie. But today our Health Minister is trying to punish those who dare to speak the truth. God help that unfortunate fellow. It seems he has not received any education at home." ~ Indian Monk.
      • Just wanted to encourage you all to keep seeking truth and remedy. "Lies can hide behind the truth because truth stands taller."
      • You can ignore reality, but, you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
      • "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." ~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
      • "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." ~ Chinese proverb
      • "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1729-1797
      • "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
      • "People are like stained-glass windows, They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
      • "If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." ~ Alex Noble
      • "Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you can do in your spare time." ~ Marion Wright Edelman
      • "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." ~ Edward Everett Hale
      • "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller
      • "Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out." ~ Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)
      • "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
      • "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." ~ Andre Gide
      • "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." ~ Billy - age 4
      • "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • "The more he bespoke of his honor the faster we counted our spoons" ~ Old Irish Saying

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      Life:

      • "Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Anderson
      • "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'" ~ Erma Bombeck
      • "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." ~ Robert Byrne
      • "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~ Elwyn Brooks White
      • "Life is simple, it's just not easy." ~ Author Unknown
      • "A life without cause is a life without effect." ~ Barbarella
      • "Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." ~ Richard Bach
      • "Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." ~ Terri Guillemets
      • "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau
      • "I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." ~ Jack Handey
      • "Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it." ~ Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left
      • "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
        ~ Robert Frost, Cluster of Faith, 1962
      • "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." ~ Kathy Norris
      • "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ~ Emily Dickinson
      • "Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant."
        ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
      • "Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
        ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
      • "My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
      • "I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
        ~ Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
      • "You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave." ~ Quentin Crisp
      • "As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose." ~ Author Unknown
      • "I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." ~ Charles Schulz
      • "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." ~ Arthur Miller
      • "Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." ~ Marion Howard
      • "Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while." ~ Author Unknown
      • "You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth." ~ Charles Johnson
      • "Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~ Danny Kaye
      • "I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth 
      • "In school you get the lesson and then take the test ...
        In life you take the test and then get the lesson."
        ~ Unknown Source
      • "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ~ Unknown
      • "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
      • "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
      • "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." ~ (Schopenhauer)
      • "A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him." ~ Elbert Hubbard
      • "Will those who know what cannot be done please stop interfering with those of us who are doing it!"
      • "Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway." ~ Elbert Hubbard
      • "The library is the arsenal of liberty." ~ Unknown
      • "Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." ~ Herman Hesse
      • "Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." ~ John Henry Jowett
      • "Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
      • "The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind" ~ Author Unknown
      • "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
      • "The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing which is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors." ~ John Stuart Mill
      • "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords. ~ Author Unknown
      • "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
      • "An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one ever hears about it." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
      • "A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul & sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
      • "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities..." ~ Voltaire
      • "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." ~ Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, Speaker and Author
      • "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Desire is the treasure map. Knowledge is the treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet, without action, they all stay buried."
      • "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
      • "What we do with our lives depends on our motivation to do something with our lives." ~ D.A.Delp
      • "The Most Dangerous Place is between A Parent and their child" ~ Author Unknown
      • "Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Knowledge is something you can use, belief is something that uses you." ~from Idries Shah, Reflections
      • "When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car." ~ Author Unknown
      • "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby
      • "When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left over, I buy food and Clothes" Erasmus
      • "Our job as mothers is in Protecting our home life from the many distractions of the world in order to live an examined life and to be hushed enough to hear God's voice. " ~ Susan Hitchcock
      • "The ignorance of yesterday is the knowledge of today which in turn becomes the ignorance of tomorrow." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Good Friends are like Diamonds, while False Friends are like Autumn Leaves found everywhere." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Never attribute to malicious conspiracy what can be adequately explained by simple stupidity." ~ Lazarus Long
      • "If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools." ~ William Penn
      • "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
      • "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened before us." ~ Helen Keller
      • "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers
      • "If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito." ~ Anita Roddick
      • "Desire is the treasure map. Knowledge is the treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet, without action, they all stay buried."
      • "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
      • "Duty makes us do things well, but LOVE makes us do them beautifully." ~ Phillips Brooks
      • "A woman is like a tea bag; you don't know her strength until she is in hot water." ..... Nancy Reagan
      • "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." ~ Corrie Ten Boom
      • "A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
      • "For the rest of my life I want to reflect on what Light is." ~ Albert Einstein
      • "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home." ~ Mother Teresa
      • "How can you deal with the death of a parent when you can't even come to terms with their life?" ~ Author Unknown
      • "Money is like manure - it stinks when piled up high - but grows wonders when spread around." ~ Author Unknown
      • "You're gonna make mistakes. It's what you do after those mistakes that really matters." ~ Brandi Chastain
      • "All the gold in the world has no significance. That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man." ~ Adolfo Prieto (1867-1945)
      • "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
      • "Some succeed because they are destined to succeed, other because they're determined to."
      • "It takes approximately 40 years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought." ~ Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
      • "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." ~ William Shedd
      • "Keep your face toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you."
      • "The best way to save face is to keep the lower half shut."
      • "Only some of us learn by other’s mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people." ~ Chicago Tribune
      • "Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers
      • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." ~ Winston Churchill
      • "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "People do not lack strength; they lack will." ~ Victor Hugo
      • "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." ~ Erica Jong
      • "The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." ~ Albert Schweitzer
      • "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." ~ William Saroyan
      • "A really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour."
      • "Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself." ~ Edward Gibbon
      • "All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." ~ Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
      • "Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families." ~ Anonymous
      • "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." ~ Marian Anderson
      • "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ~ Voltaire
      • "Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not." ~ Maria Mitchell
      • "Life is what happens while you are making other plans." ~ John Lennon
      • "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." ~ Sydney J. Harris
      • "There are no short cuts to any place worth going." ~ Anonymous
      • "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain
      • "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain
      • "The mighty oak was once a NUT that stood it's ground."
      • "There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."
      • "Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing over, and Over Again And expecting a Different Result." ~ Anthony Robbins
      • "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." ~ Albert Schweitzer
      • "When you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done. Nothing is impossible to those who believe."
      • "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
      • "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~ Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
      • "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Albert Einstein
      • "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." ~ Admiral Hyman Rickover
      • "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." ~ Albert Einstein
      • "Forgiving is not forgetting, it is remembering and letting go." ~ Claudia Black, 1989
      • "Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason."
        ~ Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
      • ". . . risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Chained by his certitudes, he's a slave. He's forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free." ~ Leo Buscaglia
      • "Old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it." ~ Unknown
      • "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." ~ Adam Smith
      • The Capitalist Cycle "Rags make paper. Paper makes money. Money makes banks. Banks make loans. Loans make beggars. Beggars make rags." ~ English Proverb.
      • "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unwarily enslave themselves." ~ 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 well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." ~ Dresden James
      • "We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present." ~ Marianne Williamson
      • "Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned." ~ Unknown
      • "Real power comes by empowering others." ~ Unknown
      • "American By Birth, Patriot By Conviction, & Southern By The Grace of God!" ~ Unknown
      • "Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito", Latin, which translated means "do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it." ~ Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
      • Deo Vindice (Latin = ) "God Will Vindicate"
      • "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see" ~ Mark Twain
      • "Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness." ~ Confucius
      • "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to relive it ..." ~ George Santayana, Historian.
      • "Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child." ~ Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC)
      • "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" ~ George Orwell
      • "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, it may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." ~ Gandhi
      • 'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'
      • "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it" ~ George Bernard Shaw
      • "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." ~Herb Caen.
      • "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." ~ George Eliot
      • "Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won." ~ Unknown
      • "Thinking outside the box has become a little more urgent now that the proverbial box is a coffin." ~ Jon Dow

         

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        Spiritual:

      • "Would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!"  ~ (Numbers 11:29)
      • "Fear not tomorrow ~ God is already there."
      • "If we were all a little more like angels, earth would be a little more like Heaven"
      • "To decide not to decide ~ is to decide." (Thinking about Salvation)
      • "If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." ~ Augustine
      • "Gods" (Idols) are fragile; they can be destroyed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
      • "If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." ~ George Macdonald
      • "Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. Oh, that God would make me more fruitful." ~ David Brainerd
      • "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
      • "Our job as mothers is in Protecting our home life from the many distractions of the world in order to live an examined life and to be hushed enough to hear God's voice. " ~ Susan Hitchcock
      • "There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with HIM who is to come." ~ Andrew Murray
      • "The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet." ~ Annie Dillard
      • "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." ~ Corrie Ten Boom
      • "We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they WANT with all THEIR hearts to know the SOURCE of it." ~ Madeleine L'Engle
      • "Strive to come up to the highest attainment of communion with God in this world, and be not contented with just so much grace as will secure you from hell - labour (labor) after such a height of grace and communion with God as may bring you into the suburbs of heaven on earth."
      • "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~ Victor Hugo
      • "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
      • Give us, O Lord, steadfast hearts that cannot be dragged down by false loves; give us courageous hearts that cannot be worn down by trouble; give us righteous hearts that cannot be sidetracked by unholy or unworthy goals. Give to us also, our Lord and God, understanding to know you, diligence to look for you, wisdom to recognize you, and a faithfulness that will bring us to see you face to face. ~ Thomas A Kempis
      • "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." ~ Stuart Chase
      • "Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito", Latin, which translated means "do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it." ~ Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
      • A Christianity that costs nothing, is worth nothing.
      • If you do not enjoy what you have now, how can you be happier with more?
      • A Christian isn't a person who has received a new start in life. A Christian is a person who has received a new life to start with.
      • You must be melted, before you can be molded.
      • You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart, until it is burning within your own.
      • Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be completely fearless, wonderfully happy, and in constant trouble.
      • Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
      • Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
      • If your Christianity is comfortable, it is compromised.
      • To pay the price of obedience, is to escape the cost of disobedience.
      • Commitment is a relationship with Christ that enables you in the midst of life's greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of life’s greatest trials, to be willing to live.
      • He who lives for God's honor and glory seeks neither praise nor reward. But in the end he is certain of both.
      • Most people do not want to know the will of God in order to do it. They want to know it in order to consider it.
      • 99% of knowing God's will is being prepared to do it before you know what it is.
      • Ease is never good for the people of God.
      • The life rooted in God cannot be uprooted.
      • Do not grumble because you don't have what you want, rather, be exceedingly grateful that you don't get what you deserve.
      • To praise God for our miseries ends them. To praise God for our blessings extends them.
      • The bible is not only the worlds best seller, it is also man's best purchase.
      • There is a vast difference between the men that make books and the book that makes men.
      • True courage is like a kite, a contrary wind raises it higher.
      • The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except that it is missing.
      • The probability of life originating by accident is comparable to the probability of the complete dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.
      • A person becomes wise by observing what happens when he isn't.
      • Experience is the best teacher and considering what it cost us, it should be.
      • The man who knows "how" will always find a place in life, but the man who knows "why" will likely be his boss.
      • Wisdom is the art of knowing what to fight for, and what to simply overlook.
      • "A man who has made a mistake and does not correct it is making a greater mistake." ~ Plato
      • He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.
      • A Christian either makes the world better, or the world makes him worse.
      • The bible keeps you from sin, and sin keeps you from the bible.
      • When the Lord does not have priority one in your life, He has no priority.
      • Give your life to God. He can do more with it than you can.
      • If God has called you, don't spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following.
      • Were it not for sin, death would have never had a beginning. And were it not for death, sin would have never had an ending.
      • Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
      • Christ must be Lord of all or else He is not Lord at all.
      • I may not be what I should be, but by the grace of God I am not what I used to be.
      • Avoid following the crowd. Be unpopular when necessary.
      • "God created the world out of nothing. And as long as we are nothing He can make something out of us." ~ Martin Luther
      • Don't make the mistake of letting yesterday use up too much of today.
      • The bible is the only book in which the author is always present.
      • We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
      • Truth is always strong no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak no matter how strong it looks.
      • The price of growth is always less than the cost of stagnation.
      • "Success is going from one failure to another failure, without losing your enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill
      • "Satisfaction in life arises in knowing you are where you belong." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
      • You have no control over which way the wind blows, but you can adjust your sails.
      • Don't sweat the small stuff; and it's all small stuff!
      • It's not what happens to us that counts, but what happens inside us that really matters.
      • "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates
      • "Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command." ~ Walter Martin
      • It is not my love for Christ that controls me. It is Christ's love for me that controls me.
      • Christ came to pay a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a debt that we could not pay.
      • I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
      • "Many people believe in you. Just make sure you are one of them." ~ Marodet
      • "Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it." ~ Chuck Swindoll
      • Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long, and the pay is low. But the retirement benefits are out of this world.
      • Christians are like tea bags. You have to put them in hot water to see how strong they are.
      • If you don't like the way you were born, try being born again.
      • If you cannot find happiness along the way, you will not find it at the end of the road.
      • The problem with the average Christian, is that he is an average Christian.
      • What we see as adversity, God sees as opportunity.
      • God doesn't call those who are equipped. God equips those whom He calls.
      • The best time of the day is "now."
      • It is not our ability that God desires, it is our availability.
      • When Jesus called me into His Army, I had nothing. And if I end up with nothing, I will still break even.
      • JUSTICE is when you get what you deserve.
        MERCY is when you don't get what you deserve.
        GRACE is when you get what you don't deserve.
      • Do unto others as if you were the others.
      • Where God leads - God feeds. Where God guides - God provides.
      • Without hope, you have no dream. Without a dream, you have no tomorrow. Without a tomorrow, you do not exist.
      • If God has brought you to it, God will bring you through it.
      • I don't understand the situation, but I understand God.
      • SMILE! It adds to your face value!
      • The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.
      • He who angers you, controls you.
      • There is always free food on a fishhook.
      • It is more valuable to seek God's presence than it is to seek God's presents.
      • "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." ~ Socrates
      • Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.
      • "I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who overcomes his enemies." ~ Aristotle
      • "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ~ Plato
      • "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." ~ Vince Lombardi
      • "All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God." ~ Voltaire
      • A rich person is not one that has the most, but one who needs the least.
      • What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
      • "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." ~ Abe Lincoln
      • There is no high, like The Most High.
      • Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
      • Don't count the days; make the days count.
      • Make sure what you're living for, is worth dying for.
      • Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
      • A person who kneels before God, can stand before anything.
      • You may be one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
      • If you don't have a reason to die, you don't have a reason to live.
      • "I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun; Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." ~ C.S.Lewis
      • Make failure your teacher; not your undertaker.
      • Safety is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God.
      • We want God to change our circumstances, but God wants to use our circumstances to change us.
      • Christians are supposed to be the light of the world, but you can't be a light if you're not plugged in.
      • You need both blessings and difficulties, because one without the other is neither.
      • When you forgive, the debt doesn't just go away. You absorb the debt. That's why forgiveness is so hard.
      • "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Wiinston Churchill
      • To suffer passes, to have suffered never passes.
      • The real issue is not why is there evil. The real issue is how could a Holy God crush His own Son, who was without sin, to forgive the evil in my heart?
      • "We like to talk about having the faith to be healed. What about the faith to be sick?" ~ Mike Mason
      • "Paul welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment, and tribulation, for only one reason. These things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God." ~ Oswald Chambers
      • "This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God, and less satisfaction in the world." ~ John Piper
      • "He who has God, has everything. He who has everything but God, has nothing." ~ Augustine
      • There was God and a scientist. God asked the scientist, "So you can make a man like I did?" The scientist said, "Yes I can." God said, "OK go ahead." The scientist went to grab up some dirt from the ground. God said, "Wait a minute, get your own dirt!"
      • "In prison Joseph lay innocent between 2 criminals. Jesus likewise lay on the cross between 2 thieves. Joseph foretells the salvation of one and the death of the other. On the cross Jesus saves the one repentant criminal and condemns the reprobate for the same crime. But whereas Joseph only prophesies, Jesus acts. Joseph asks the man who will be saved to remember him when he is elevated. But Jesus saves the man who asks that he be remembered when Jesus comes into His kingdom." ~ Blaise Pascal
      • And Jesus was lifted up upon a tree, and an inscription was attached indicating who was being killed. Who was it? It is a grievous thing to tell, but a most fearful thing to refrain from telling. But listen, as you tremble before Him on whose account the earth trembled! He who hung the earth in place is hanged. He who fixed the heavens in place is fixed in place. He who made all things fast is made fast on a tree. The Sovereign is insulted. God is murdered. The King of Israel is destroyed by an Israelite hand.
      • "This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development." ~ Edgar Cayce Reading 3063-1
      • When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
      • Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
      • There comes a point in your life when you realize:
        Who matters,
        Who never did,
        Who won't anymore...
        And who always will.
        So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
      • Sorrow Looks back
        Fears Looks Around,
        But Faith Looks Up.
      • "The very concept of a person (prosopon in Greek) was the result of a theological dispute, how God, according to the Christian (Orthodox) teaching, can be One and three at the same time." ~ Defined

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        Medical:

      • "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" ~ P.J. O'Rourke
      • "When it comes to understanding disease process and the true nature of what a real healing process is, modern medicine sadly lingers in ignorance. The pathetic thing is that this ignorance is promoted, fed and maintained by the profit motive. I realize that modern medicine is a business and not a healing art. Health and healing is bad for business." ~ Comment on a medical forum."
      • "All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it." ~ Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
      • "Physicians give drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing." ~ Voltaire
      • "If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
      • "Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic... The constitution of the Republic should make special provisions for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom."
        Dr. Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal doctor and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
      • "Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." ~ Linus Pauling
      • "We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." ~ George Bernard Shaw
      • "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dose makes it either a poison or a remedy." ~ Paracelsus
      • "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" ~ Hippocrates
      • "Your illness is a blessing, for it gives you the opportunity to resolve old issues and create a new reality by choosing a different probability with your God given right of free will." ~ Author Unknown
      • "In Med school they teach us what to think, not how to think!" ~ Author Unknown
      • "It's a strange law that compels children to be vaccinated in order to attend school and then disables them so they cannot attend anything."
      • "You see, the definition of a "hot lot" is a vaccine that has been recalled. If it hasn't been recalled, that is proof that it isn't hot. Very logical. Finding out later about a bad vaccine in the past, doesn't make it hot. After all, enough time has passed for it to have cooled down, don't you think?" Sandy from Alaska
      • "The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective" Dr. Len Horowitz
      • " ..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher..." ~ George Bernard Shaw
      • "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
      • "The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests." ~ Jon Rappoport interview
      • "The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organisation which ever managed a free people in this or any other age. Any and all methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and natural remedies are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as fakes, frauds and humbugs." ~ J.W Hodge, M.D
      • "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." ~ Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
      • "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." ~ Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
      • "There's no way to health, health is a way..."
      • "Antibiotics... may be the single greatest cause of candidiasis." ~ Murray Susser, M.D.
      • "Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
      • "The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." ~ William Osler, M.D.
      • "Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach." ~ Wier Mitchel, M.D.
      • "The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life." ~ Paracelsus
      • "The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind." ~ Paracelsus
      • "Fluoride, once touted as an osteoporosis treatment, is, in fact, toxic to bone cells." ~ John R. Lee, M.D.
      • "Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time." ~ Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
      • "The natural force within each one of us is the greatest healer of disease." ~ Hippocrates
      • "It's not what we eat or drink occasionally, but what we consume on a daily basis that determines our ongoing level of health."
      • "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease." ~ Volaire
      • "We are, physically and mentally, what we eat and what we think."
      • "Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure." ~ Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
      • "There is nothing in conventional medicine today that treats chronic degenerative conditions as successfully as holistic therapies." ~ Joanne Stefanatos, D.V.M.
      • "What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?" ~ John H. Tilden, M.D.
      • "Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they can only work symptomatically." ~ Hans Kusche, M.D.
      • "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." ~ Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
      • "A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession." ~ Hippocrates
      • What if a "dirty bomb" exploded over a large segment of U.S. population that simultaneously exposed citizens to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, three strains of polio viruses, three strains of influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, two types of meningitis, four strains of herpes viruses, the chickenpox virus, 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, and four strains of rotavirus.
        • We would declare a national emergency.
        • It would be an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM
        • The public outcry would be immense and our government would react accordingly.
        And yet, those are the very organisms we inject into our babies and our small children in multiple doses, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems, many at the same time with vaccines.
        But instead of bioterrorism, we call it "protection." Reflect on that irony. ~ Dr Sheri Tenpenny, MD
      • "One of the worst things about becoming seriously ill is that one must place oneself in the hands of a profession one deeply mistrusts."  How right he was and is! He also said, "While it is a good thing to give bakers a pecuniary interest in baking bread, it is not a good idea to give surgeons a pecuniary interest in cutting off legs." ~ Bernard Shaw
      • "All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it." ~ Paracelsus (1493-1541)
      • "In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties." ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881
      • "Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can create, and healing is re-creation." ~ Dr. William S. Sadler
      • "Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow." ~ Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefeller Institute)
      • "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
      • "Our hospitals are full of practitioners and patients who have forgotten how to dance!" ~ Peter Chappell
      • "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." ~ Voltaire
      • "Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working." ~ Anonymous
        16 Quotes on Drugs
        1. "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." ~ Charles E. Page, M.D.
        2. "Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they can only work symptomatically." ~ Hans Kusche, M.D.
        3. "If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity" ~ O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
        4. "Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons." ! R.T. TraIl, M.D., (in a two and one half hour lecture to members of congress and the medical profession, delivered at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.)
        5. "Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition." ~ Robert Henderson, M.D.
        6. "Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time." ~ Daniel. H. Kress,M.D.
        7. "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." ~ Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
        8. "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." ~ Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
        9. "Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach." ~ Wier Mitchel, M.D.
        10. "The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." ~ William Osler, M.D.
        11. "Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure." ~ Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
        12. "Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions." ~ Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
        13. "Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that which would make a well man sick." ~ L.F. Kebler, M.D.
        14. "What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?" ~ John H. Tilden, M.D.
        15. "The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned." ~ Charles Armbruster, M. D.
        16. "We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs." ~ Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
      • "Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete; and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
        ~ Sir Humphry Davy, in "An Account of some Galvanic Combinations", Philosophical Transactions 91 (1801), pp. 397–402 (as quoted by David Knight, Humphry Davy: Science and Power, Cambridge, 1998, p. 87)
      • "When industry has penetrated every level of medicine from the lab bench to the FDA advisory panels, from the pages of medical journals to your doctors prescription pad, how are physicians to make decisions about treating their patients?" ~ Shannon Brownee, "Doctors without borders: Why you can’t trust medical journals anymore," Washington Monthly, April 2004
      • On the love of chocolate - "A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips."

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        Money:

      • "With the monetary system we have now, the careful saving of a lifetime can be wiped out in an eyeblink." ~ Larry Parks, Executive Director, FAME
      • "You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." ~ George Bernard Shaw
      • "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ---- zero." ~ Voltaire (1694-1778)
      • "We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." ~ Daniel Webster, speech in the Senate, 1833
      • "I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~ Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816
      • "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." ~ Daniel Webster
      • "The decrease in purchasing power incurred by holders of money due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money." ~ St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, Review, Nov. 1975, p.22
      • "Because of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments." ~ Federal Reserve Bank, New York The Story of Banks, p.5.
      • "Without the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually." ~ Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Gold, p. 10
      • "Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU." ~
        Federal reserve Bank of New York, I Bet You Thought, p.19
      • "The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks. As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money." ~ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Modern Money Mechanics, p.3
      • "Emitting bills of credit, or the creation of money by private corporations, is what is expressly forbidden by Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution." ~ U.S. Supreme Court, Craig v. Missouri, 4 Peters 410.
      • "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." ~ James A. Garfield
      • "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 glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat, The Law
      • "Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess." ~ Irving Fisher, 100% Money
      • "If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer." ~ John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 240
      • "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose." ~ John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235
      • "Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing." ~ Ralph M. Hawtrey, former Secretary of Treasury, England
      • "Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon." ~ Robert H. Hemphill, former credit manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
      • "Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back." ~ Sir Josiah Stamp, former President, Bank of England
      • "Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." ~ Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of Exchequer, England
      • "All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." ~ John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
      • "Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." ~ Wm. Jennings Bryan
      • "Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." ~ George Washington, in letter to J. Bowen, Rhode Island, Jan. 9, 1787
      • "Madison, agreeing with the journal of the convention, records that the grant of power to emit bills of credit was refused by a majority of more than four to one. The evidence is perfect; no power to emit paper money was granted to the legislature of the United States." ~ George Bancroft, A Plea for the Constitution (1886)
      • "No state shall emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, coin money---." ~ Article One, Section Ten, United States Constitution
      • "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interest, combined in one mass; and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks." ~ John C. Calhoun, Speech 5/27/1836
      • "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out." ~ Andrew Jackson: To delegation of bankers discussing the Bank Renewal Bill, 1832
      • "Where would we be if we had I.O.U.'s scrip and certificates floating all around the country?" Instead he decided to "issue currency against the sound assets of the banks. [As opposed to issuing currency against gold.] The Federal Reserve Act lets us print all we'll need. And it won't frighten the people. It won't look like stage money. It'll be money that looks like real money." ~ (Source: 'Closed for the Holiday: The Bank Holiday of 1933', p20 - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Treasury Secretary Woodin, 3/7/33
      • "The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it." ~ Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p15 John Kenneth Galbraith
      • "The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled." ~ Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p29 John Kenneth Galbraith
      • "Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?" ~ Senator Carter Glass, Author of the Banking Act of 1933
      • "The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty." ~ Chief Justice Salmon Chase, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln's administration, in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871)
      • "As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law." ~ Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 11/20/2003
      • "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." ~ John Adams
      • "With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people." ~ Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) Austrian Economist, Author and 1974 Nobel Prize-Winner for Economics
      • "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that's good enough." ~ Dr. Edwin Vieira, FAME Foundation Scholar
      • "Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property (that's you and your children) in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a charge back for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattels (property) and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading (Birth Certificate) to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debts to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud, which we will call "Social Insurance." Without realizing it, every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and we will employ the high office (presidency) of our dummy corporation (USA) to foment this plot against America." ~ Colonel Edward Mandell House
      • "Considering that senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service are fully aware of the fact that there is no law currently in existence making a U.S. citizen liable for or required to pay either the income tax or the social security employment tax, only a truly generous citizen would, upon discovering this, continue to voluntarily donate these taxes to the government by allowing them to be withheld from his paycheck on a 100% voluntary W-4 withholding agreement. But, then again, the IRS would be dead in the water without the "voluntary (and docile) compliance" of employers and employees and has said so all along." ~ William Cash, IRS Senior Manager, http://www.irs.faithweb.com
      • "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." ~ Somerset Maugham,
      • "We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heart blood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? ... When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself." ~ Cicero, 54 B.C.
      • "In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff, the entire system will collapse'." ~ Henry Bellmon, U.S. Senator (1969)
      • "If all bank loans were paid ... there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system." ~ Robert Hemphill, Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, in foreword to "100% Money" by Irving Fisher
      • "... the key question is: can we define 'income' in a fair and reasonably straightforward manner? Unfortunately, we have not yet succeeded in doing so." ~ Shirley Peterson, former IRS Commissioner, April 1993
      • "I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him." ~ T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report
      • "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." ~ President Ronald Reagan, May 1983, Williamsburg, VA
      • "If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you." ~ Gary Makovski, Special IRS Agent, testifying under oath in U.S. v. Lloyd
      • "Our tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distrait." ~ United States Supreme Court, in Flora v. United States
      • "Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance." ~ Mortimer Caplin, former Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Internal Revenue Audit Manual (1975)
      • "The United States has a system of taxation by confession." ~ Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice, in U.S. v. Kahriger
      • "Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents ... Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse than the individual who relies upon his constitutional rights." ~ U.S. Federal Judge Cummings, in U.S. v. Dickerson (7th Circuit 1969)
      • "Let me point this out now: Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, your same rules just will not apply ...." ~ Dwight E. Avis, former head of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the IRS, testifying before a House Ways and Means subcommittee in 1953
      • "The purpose of the IRS is to collect the proper amount of tax revenues at the least cost to the public, and in a manner that warrants the highest degree of public confidence in our integrity, efficiency and fairness. To achieve that purpose, we will encourage and achieve the highest possible degree of voluntary compliance in accordance with the tax laws and regulations ...." ~ Internal Revenue Manual, Chapter 1100, section 1111.1
      • "A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state." ~ Virginia House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting what would happen if a federal income tax became law.
      • "Fear is the key element for the IRS in achieving its mission. Without fear, the IRS would have a difficult time maintaining our so-called system of voluntary compliance ...". "Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can ... the IRS does not really care about you and what your future ... may be." ~ Santo Presti, former IRS Criminal Investigation Agent and author of "IRS In Action"
      • "The IRS is an extraordinary example of the end justifying the means. The means of this agency is growth. It is interesting that the revenue officers within the IRS refer to taxpayers as 'inventory'. The IRS embodies the political realities of the selfish human desire to dominate others. Thus the end of this gigantic pretense of officialdom is power, pure and simple. The meek may inherit the earth, but they will never receive a promotion in an agency where efficiency is measured by the number of seizures of taxpayers' property and by the number of citizens and businesses driven into bankruptcy." ~ George Hansen, Congressman and author of "To Harass Our People"
      • "I have sat on many a promotion panel where the first question of panel members was 'How many seizures have you made?'." ~ Joseph R. Smith, eighteen-year IRS agent, testifying before Congress
      • "The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit." ~ Ted Stevens, Republican Senator from Alaska
      • "Eight decades of amendments ... to [the] code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze ... The rules are unintelligible to most citizens ... The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law." ~ Shirley Peterson, Former IRS Commissioner, April 14, 1993 at Southern Methodist University
      • "... some techniques can be used only in connection with a full-scale program due to the nature of the tax situation and the need to avoid unnecessary taxpayer reaction. An example would be income tax returns compliance efforts aimed at the nonbusiness taxpayer." ~ Internal Revenue Service Manual, section 5221 "Returns Compliance Programs"
      • "This [audit] was made extremely difficult because [IRS] existing systems were not designed to provide ... reliable financial information .. on their operations." ~ Comptroller Bowsher, Government Accounting Office, on the first-ever audit of the IRS in 1993.
      • "The wages of the average American worker, after inflation and taxes, have decreased 17% since 1973, the only Western industrial nation to so suffer." ~ Martin Gross, author of "The Tax Racket: Government Extortion From A to Z"
      • "When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money ..." ~ W. Allen Wallis, former Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, May 27, 1976
      • "There is no prospect that today's younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them." ~ Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner and author of "Social Insecurity", quoted in the December 1995 Reader's Digest
      • "All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus." ~ Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, January 24, 1996
      • "The Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census ... [and] ... prohibits Congress from laying a direct tax on the revenue from property of the citizen without regard to state lines ...." ~ United States Supreme Court in Pollack v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company (1895)
      • "... [the 16th Amendment] conferred no new power of taxation ... [and] .. prohibited the ... power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged ...." ~ United States Supreme Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining (1916)
      • "To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals ... is none the less robbery because it is ... called taxation." ~ United States Supreme Court in Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
      • "No State shall ... coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ...." ~ United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1
      • "... bank records are not the depositor's private papers and having given the information to the bank, the depositor has no legitimate expectation of continued privacy ... Records of an individual's accounts with ... banks are not the individual's private papers protected against compulsory production by the 4th Amendment, but instead are the business records of the banks." ~ United States Supreme Court in U.S. vs. Miller
      • "... 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government." ~ Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan on January 15, 1984
      • "In 1833, a small group of Socialists met in London, announcing their intentions of converting the British economic system from capitalism to socialism. This group chose the name "Fabian Society". One of the leading members of the Fabian Society, author George Bernard Shaw, perhaps summed it up best when he said, quote: "... Socialism means equality of income or nothing ... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well." ~ Edgar Wallace Robinson in his 1980 booklet titled "Rolling Thunder"
      • "Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." ~ Daniel Webster
      • "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." ~ John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1787
      • "Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It's the world's only true money. And there isn't much of it to go around. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building - a 56 foot cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years." ~ Mark Nestmann, author of "How To Achieve Personal And Financial Privacy In A Public Age"
      • "I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." ~ Abraham Lincoln, just after the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863
      • " ... the privilege of creating and issuing money ... is the government's greatest creative opportunity ... [saving] the taxpayers immense sums of money ...." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin
      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero. ~ Voltaire
      • The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos. ~ Henry Hazlitt
      • The value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician's promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it. ~ Sir William Rees-Mogg
      • We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper; more paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people. ~ Daniel Webster
      • The guillotine follows the paper money press, the two machines are complimentary one to the other. ~ Old French saying
      • "I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~ Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.
      • "I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~ Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
      • "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." ~ Baron M.A. Rothschild (1744 - 1812)
      • "Under the surface, the Rothschilds long had a powerful influence in dictating American financial laws. The law records show that they were powers in the old Bank of the United States [abolished by Andrew Jackson]." ~ Gustav Myers, author of "History of the Great American Fortunes"
      • "... You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the [favor] of the Eternal God, I will rout you out." ~ President Andrew Jackson, upon evicting a delegation of international bankers from the Oval Office
      • "If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." ~ Andrew Jackson
      • "The few who can understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of the people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." ~ John Sherman, protégé of the Rothschild banking family, in a letter sent in 1863 to New York Bankers, Ikleheimer, Morton, and Gould, in support of the then proposed National Banking Act
      • ".. we conclude that the [Federal] Reserve Banks are not federal ... but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations ... without day to day direction from the federal government.." ~ 9th Circuit Court in Lewis vs. United States, June 24, 1982
      • "Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are U.S. government institutions. They are not ... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the U.S. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will." ~ Congressman Charles McFadden, Chairman, House Banking and Currency Committee, June 10, 1932
      • "When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money." ~ Boston Federal Reserve Bank in a publication titled "Putting It Simply"
      • "We make money the old fashioned way. We print it." ~ Art Rolnick, former Chief Economist, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
      • "Historically, the United States has been a hard money country. Only [since 1913] has the United States operated on a fiat money system. During this period, paper money has depreciated over 87%. During the preceding 140 year period, the hard currency of the United States had actually maintained its value. Wholesale prices in 1913 ... were the same as in 1787." ~ Kenneth Gerbino, former chairman of the American Economic Council
      • "About all a Federal Reserve note can legally do is wipe out one debt and replace it with itself, another debt, a note that promises nothing. If anything's been paid, the payment occurs only in the minds of the parties ...." ~ Tupper Saucy, author of "The Miracle On Main Street"
      • "By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." ~ John Maynard Keynes, economist and author of "The Economic Consequences Of The Peace"
      • "Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been scientifically determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime." ~ G. Edward Griffin, historian and author of "The Creature From Jekyll Island"
      • "The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president." ~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23, 1933 in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House
      • "... our system of credit is concentrated ... in the hands of a few men ... a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that [we had] better not speak above [our] breath when [we] speak in condemnation of it ... We have come to be ... completely controlled ... by ... small groups of dominant men." ~ President Woodrow Wilson
      • "The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, "friends of paper money. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from England and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system. Through ignorance, but moreover, because of apathy, a small, but wealthy, clique of power brokers have robbed us of our Rights and Liberties, and we are being raped of our wealth. We are paying the price for the near-comatose levels of complacency by our parents, and only G-d knows what might become of our children, should we not work diligently to shake this country from its slumber! Many a nation has lost its freedom at the end of a gun barrel, but here in America, we just decided to hand it over voluntarily. Worse yet, we paid for the tyranny and usurpation out of our own pockets with "voluntary" tax contributions and the use of a debt-laden fiat currency!." ~ Peter Kershaw, author of the 1994 booklet "Economic Solutions"
      • "Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order." ~ Ed Howdershelt
      • "Mr. Speaker, we are now in Chapter 11 ... Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history." ~ James Trafficant, Congressman, March 17, 1993 in the Congressional Record
      • "The creation of money exclusively as debt is the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy". ~ author Theodore R. Thoren explains The Truth In Money Book.
      • "We operate here under directives from the White House .. [to] use our grant making power to alter life in the U.S. so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union." ~ Rowan Gaither, former president of the Ford Foundation, in a 1954 statement to Norman Dodd regarding Congressional investigations of the un-American activities of tax-exempt foundations operating in the U.S.
      • "The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is ... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay ... If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply and develop into a system." ~ Frederic Bastiat, French author of "The Law" (1848)
      • "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "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 your arms; Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution.
      • Only when the last tree has been cut down:
        Only when the last river has been poisoned:
        Only when the last fish has been caught:
        Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
        ~ Cree Indian Prophecy

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        Political:

      • "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
        You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
        You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
        You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
        You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
        You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
        You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
        ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
      • "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ~ James Madison
      • "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." ~ Voltaire
      • "The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws." ~ Edward Abbey
      • "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain
      • "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." ~ Winston Churchill
      • "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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
      • "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
      • "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." ~ Unknown
      • "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
      • "Capitalism is the uneven distribution of wealth.
        Socialism is the even distribution of poverty."
        ~ Winston Churchill (a variation of the above)
      • "Socialism is a philosophy of failure. The creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." ~ Winston Churchill (another variation of the above)
      • "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
        ~ Mark Twain
      • "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)
      • "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "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 glorifies it." ~ Fredric Bastiat, "The Law", 1846
      • "The library is the arsenal of liberty." ~ Unknown
      • "The school is primarily a social institution whose central purpose is not science, nor literature, nor history nor geography . . but the child's own social activities." ~ John Dewey
      • "When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." ~ Ben Franklin
      • "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
      • "If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. Lately it seems to bear a close resemblance to the first." ~ Author Unknown
      • "I believe there are more instances of abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations...." ~ James Madison
      • "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
      • "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." ~ Linus Pauling
      • "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not take it from them, but to inform their discretion" ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law", because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." ~Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
      • "The Founding Fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and God fearing - if they didn't love liberty and cherish it."
      • "If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it's freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
      • "'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~ William Pitt, 1783
      • "In Germany they came first 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 Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
        ~ Martin Neimoller, reflecting upon Germany's fall to the Nazis
      • "Lethal injections are for criminals. We need to keep it that way." ~ Author Unknown
      • "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could easily defeat us." ~ William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975
      • "The dangers of a government that abuses it's powers are all too real to me. The dangers of a government that allows certain vested special interest groups to do as they wish, is all to real to us all. Fair is fair - A government that fears its own people, should be feared by the people it governs."
      • "Love your country but fear its government." ~ N.E. folk wisdom
      • "1935 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." ~ Adolf Hitler, 'Berlin Daily', April 15th, 1935
      • "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." ~ P.J. O'Rourke
      • "MTV may talk about lighting fires and killing children, but Janet Reno actually does something about it." ~ Spy Magazine
      • "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." ~ Cicero, 63 BC
      • "Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it." ~ Adolph Hitler
      • "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." ~ Samuel Adams, co-signer of the Declaration of Independence
      • "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." ~ Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)
      • "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive." ~ Thomas Jefferson, February 22, 1787
      • "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." ~ Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
      • "There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."
      • "Judicial verbicide is calculated to convert the Constitution into a worthless scrap of paper and to replace our government of laws with a judicial oligarchy." ~ Senator Sam Ervin, of Watergate hearing fame
      • "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing." ~ Daniel Webster
      • "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." ~ Plato (427-347 B.C.)
      • "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Albert Einstein
      • "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." ~ James Madison.
      • "On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "I have sworn before the alter of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson, (Letter to B. Rush, Sept. 23, 1800)
      • "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." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Nothing is more essential... than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable character." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight." ~ John F. Kennedy- Columbia University, Nov. 12, 1963
      • "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers" ~ Jose Narosky
      • Judge Learned Hand said: "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." Americans no longer understand what liberty means. They think it has something to do with tax-free shopping and their right never to be offended by others' opinions.
      • "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." ~ Justice of the Supreme Court, William O. Douglas
      • "It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled" ~ Proverb
      • "Where might is master, justice is servant" ~ Proverb
      • "Much law, but little justice" ~ Proverb
      • "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all" ~  Edmund Burke
      • "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes". ~ John Swinton, Chief of Staff at the New York Times (toast at the New York Press Club, 1880)
        http://www.constitution.org:80/pub/swinton_press.htm 
      • "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederick Douglass 1857
      • "The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight." ~ John F. Kennedy - Columbia University, Nov. 12, 1963
      • "If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "To hold a pen is to be at war." ~ Voltaire
      • "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
      • "Rome did not die from lack of the right social programs. Rome died for lack of Men." ~ (paraphrase) The great Romanian patriot Cornelieu Codreanu
      • "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." ~ Adolf Hitler
      • "The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil." ~ (Albert Einstein, 1949)
      • "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." ~ Mark Twain
      • "The only way for a reporter to look on a politician is down." H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
      • "The mere title of Lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of public confidence. The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens." ~ John Q. Adams
      • "The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges' views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice." ~ Justice Hugo L. Black ( U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1886 - 1971).
      • "If we know the truth, we must tell it; if we don't, we must learn it! It is critical to our spirit."
      • "It is not the function of our government to keep the Citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the Citizen to keep the government from falling into error." American Communications Ass'n v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442.
      • "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
        ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
      • "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
      • "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who will not." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. … We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant." ~ Sir Karl Popper
        The way Big Brother Governs the World and the Masses
      • "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England; nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
        ~ Hermann Goering - Nazi Technique
      • "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it. People can be made to perceive paradise as hell, and the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
        ~ Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf
      • "An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland."
        ~ Adolf Hitler, proposing the creation of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany
      • "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate." ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
      • "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and passed on, or we will spend our sunset years telling our children's children what it was like in the United States when men were free." ~ Ronald Reagan
      • "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." ~ Madison (Federalist Papers, No. 51, page 322)
      • "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "Every US president since Eisenhower has either belonged to the Bilderberg Group or its older parallel group, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), or been approved by them. The race is no contest when you own both horses. That is why no matter which political party is in power nothing really changes other than the packaging. The puppets who drink at the champagne fountains of the powerful do the bidding of their masters. The people are superfluous to the process." ~ Daniel Estulin
      • "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • Hitler explained the believability of the Big Lie as compared to the small lie: "In the simplicity of their minds, people more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have such impudence. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and continue to think that there may be some other explanation." ~ Adolf Hitler
      • "I do not reject peace, but I am afraid of war disguised as peace." ~ Cicero 43 B.C.
      • "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
      • "How do wars start? Diplomats lie to reporters and then believe what they read in the newspapers." ~ Karl Krause
      • "As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." ~ Newt Gingrich
      • "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~ James Madison
      • "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ~ Benjamin Franklin
      • "It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times." ~ George Washington
      • "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of 'other' people's money." ~ Margaret Thatcher:
      • "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." ~ James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
      • "A Liberal is a person who will give away everything 'he doesn't own'." ~ Unknown
      • "Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us." ~ Thomas Jefferson, Letter to F. W. Gilmer, 1816
      • "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." ~ Aleister Crowley
      • "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their country." ~ George Washington
      • "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e. an ‘alien’ invasion], (whether real or promulgated), that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." ~ Henry Kissinger was reported to have said this at the Bilderberger Conference in Evians, France, 1991
      • "Although the means of coming into power differ, still the method of ruling is practically the same. The tyrant has nothing more than the power you confer upon him to destroy you. How does he have any power over you except through you? Tyrants need only be deprived of the public's continuing supply of funds and resources. *Resolve to serve no more!* and you are at once free. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer. Then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." ~ Etienne de la Boetie 1553
      • "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and provide for it." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "That measures of this nature [military conscription] should be debated at all in the councils of a free government is cause of dismay. The question is nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered and despotism embraced in its worst form." ~ Daniel Webster
      • "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "I will not seek to compel any man to believe as I do, only by the force of reasoning." ~ (T.P.J.S., p. 313)
      • "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 (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." ~ President Thomas Jefferson
      • "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Individual sovereignty is not a license for all individuals to do anything they want, it is not moral relativism and it is not anarchy where each individual decides subjectively which rights of other people one will respect and which laws one will obey and which will be ignored, individual sovereignty is universal sovereignty of the individual to live freely and not infringe upon the right of other individuals to enjoy the same freedom, that is the law, that is what is enforced and that is what all individuals are obligated to respect. Individual sovereignty is the basis from which all rights are derived and upon which all legitimate government is founded and it is the only way that a truly good and just society may emerge." - Gregory Flanagan
      • "It is a known fact that the policies of the government today, whether Republican or Democrat are closer to the 1932 platform of the Communist Party than they are to either of their own party platforms in that critical year." ~ Walter Trohan (1903-2003) Chicago Tribune reporter (1929-1972) and bureau chief in Washington, D.C. Source: CHICAGO TRIBUNE, October 5, 1970 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Trohan.Quote.9F58
        (Look at us now -- 40 years later.)
      • "If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." ~ Candidus (Pen name of Samuel Adams during the era of the Sons of Liberty) Source: in the Boston Gazette, 1772 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Candidus.Quote.2561
      • "The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederic Douglas, 1857
      • "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." ~ Charles de Mo 
      • "If a man neglects to enforce his rights he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes.
      • "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons' cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ (C.S. Lewis)
      • "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederic Douglas, 1857
      • "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.” ~ Charles de Montesquieu
      • "How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" ~ Samuel Adams
      • "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 glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat
      • "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • “A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.” ~ Vito Corleone
      • "Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool." ~ Plato
      • "Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. It’s one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself." ~ H. L. Mencken
      • "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." (Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789)
      • "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." ~ William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice
      • "If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being a gift from God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." ~ Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution.
      • "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." ~ Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow, 1824
      • "The people who had once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else now longs eagerly for just two things, bread and circus games.." ~ Juvenal, poet, upon observing the decline of the Roman empire.
      • "The real destroyers of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donation and largesse." ~ Plutarch, Greek historian.
      • "[W]hat more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? ... a wise and frugal government ... which shall leave [men] free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude ... If we can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, the people will be happy." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate 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." ~ Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.
      • "The more restrictions and prohibitions in the world, the poorer people get, the more experts the country has the more of a mess it's in, the more ingenious the skillful are, the more monstrous their inventions, the louder the call for law and order, the more the thieves and con men multiply." ~ Lao Tze, circa. 2300 B.C.
      • "Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created." ~ Ludwig von Mises ("Socialism", 1922)
      • "The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now." ~ United States Supreme Court in South Carolina vs. United States (1905)
      • "Let it [the Constitution, etc.] be taught in schools, seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation." ~ President Abraham Lincoln
      • "I do not believe there are more than a very limited number of persons, perhaps a hundred who really know what is in the Constitution of the United States." ~ Dr. John J. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, October, 1924.
      • "Lawyers are being graduated from our law schools by the thousands who have little knowledge of the Constitution. When organizations seek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution, they find it nearly impossible to secure one competent." ~ report of the Committee on American Citizenship, presented at the meeting of the American Bar Association, Denver, Colorado, July 14-16, 1926.
      • "... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated." ~ Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger
      • "... the intent of the lawmaker is to be found in the language that he has used." ~ United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Goldberg (1897)
      • "In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Every child in American who enters school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government ... all of this proves the children are sick, because the truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future." ~ Chester M. Pierce, Harvard University psychiatrist, at a 1973 International Education Seminar, as quoted in "Educating For The New World Order" by B.K. Eakman
      • "The CFR [Council On Foreign Relations, New York City] is the American Branch of a society which originated in England and believes national directives should be obliterated and one-world rule established. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years, and was permitted in the early 1960's to examine its papers and secret records ... I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." ~ Dr. Carroll Quigley, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University Foreign Service School, Washington, D.C., author of the epic "Tragedy & Hope", advocate of one-world government and personal mentor of President William Clinton (who acknowledged Professor Quigley during his 1992 presidential inauguration speech)
      • "We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent." ~ James Paul Warburg, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1921 - 1932, before the U.S. Senate, February 17, 1950
      • "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas." ~ Brock Chisolm, former Director of the World Health Organization
      • "The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government." ~ Chester Ward, Rear Admiral and former Navy Judge Advocate 1956 - 1960 and CFR member for 15 years
      • "You had me on (before) to talk about the new world order ... I talk about it all the time ... It's one world now ... The council (Council on foreign Relations) can find, nurture and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me.." ~ New CFR president Les Celb (former editor of The New York Times), May 4, 1993 on the "Charlie Rose Show".
      • "That the CFR has been in control of the foreign policy of the United States for some time should now be beyond question.." ~ Richard Harwood, Oct. 30, 1993, on the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
      • "The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the FBI
      • "The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes" ~ Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court Justice
      • "Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to the Politburo in November of 1987
      • "I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the past forty-nine years, they would move on Washington. It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States." ~ Senator George Malone of Nevada, speaking before Congress in 1957
      • "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism", they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." ~ Norman Thomas, for many years the U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate
      • "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." ~ Joseph Stalin, former dictator of the Soviet Union
      • "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." ~ David Rockefeller, in an address given to Catherine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and other media luminaries in attendance in Baden Baden, Germany at the June 1991 annual meeting of the world elite Bilderberg Group
      • "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~ John Swinton, former chief of staff, The New York Times, in a 1953 speech before the New York Press Club
      • "We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with." ~ Richard M. Cohen, former Senior Producer of CBS political news
      • "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ~ Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
      • "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ...." ~ United States Pledge of Allegiance (... hey, I thought it was a Democracy)
      • "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." ~ James Madison
      • "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation." ~ Karl Marx, 1848 author of "The Communist Manifesto"
      • "Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism." ~ Fisher Ames (1758 - 1808)
      • "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution." ~ James Madison, Father of the Constitution
      • "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts in the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have been advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." ~ George Washington
      • "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto the inhabitants thereof." ~ Leviticus 25:10 (inscription on the Liberty Bell)
      • "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "The independence and liberty you possess are the work of ... joint efforts, of common dangers, suffering and successes." ~ George Washington
      • "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." ~ United States Supreme Court - American Communications Association v. Douds
      • "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself." ~ Louis D. Brandeis, former Supreme Court Justice
      • "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "It is inherent in government's right, if necessary, to lie ... that seems to me basic - basic." ~ Arthur Sylvester, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
      • "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~ Johann W. Von Goethe
      • "Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
      • "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
      • "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." ~ Thomas Paine
      • "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it." ~ Learned Hand, jurist
      • "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." ~ George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
      • "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'" ~ Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
      • "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" ~ Patrick Henry
      • "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." ~ Montesquieu, 1742
      • "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." ~ Justice William O. Douglas
      • "We can no more blame our loss of freedom on congressmen than we can prostitution on pimps. Both simply provide broker services for their customers." ~ Dr. Walter Williams
      • "He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." ~ Samuel Clemens, author who wrote under the nom de plume, Mark Twain
      • "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts ... the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke
      • "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, ... pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "I believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~ James Madison
      • "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 garments, 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" ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 BC
      • "1935 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." ~ Adolph Hitler
      • "It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains ..." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." ~ Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961)
      • "[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue." ~ Samuel Adams
      • "A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom." ~ Patrick Henry
      • "No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of patriotism ..." ~ Andrew Jackson
      • "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams
      • "There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
      • "A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs ... we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country ... we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected." ~ John Danforth, Republican Senator from Missouri, in an interview in The Arizona Republic on April 22, 1992
      • "Give me your four year-olds and in a generation I will build a socialist state ... destroy the family and the society will collapse." ~ Vladimir Lenin
      • "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." ~ John Adams
      • "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." ~ Abraham Lincoln
      • "Any truth is better than make-believe ... rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth" ~ Henry David Thoreau
      • "Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened." ~ Winston Churchill
      • "Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool." ~ Plato
      • "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." ~ Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Ludlow, 1824
      • "The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind." ~ Rousseau
      • "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
      • "When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1821) in a letter to Gideon Granger.
      • "An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.." ~ Ambrose Bierce
      • "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
      • "Dear Fellow American Patriot, When this country was in its very infancy, our Founding Fathers pledged their fortunes, their sacred honor, indeed their very lives to stand against tyranny. These men and their families led us on to victory. Historians have calculated the total membership of these true heroes to be only 3% of the country at that time. To these men, Liberty was worth more than life itself. The nation that was born from their sacrifices has never since been duplicated in the history of the world. Our nation is once again in peril of losing its very essence to tyrants who would steal from us the life blood that has made our country great. It is by the [favor] of Almighty God that you have been chosen to join with us in the fight to restore our Nation back to its original greatness; back to a Nation where wo/men are free to believe as they choose, work for themselves and prosper according to their efforts and faith - where Rights are again protected by Law, not ignored or destroyed by the policies of bureaucrats. So welcome brothers and sisters! Knowing that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, I am honored to call you my countrymen. May God Bless you!" ~ Thomas Brissey, St. Simons Island, Georgia, Independent Representative for the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
      • "The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." ~ Thomas Jefferson
      • "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ...". ~ William Jefferson Clinton, March 11, 1993 in USA Today.
      • "When we got organized as a country ... we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... A lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." ~ William Jefferson Clinton, March 22, 1994 on MTV (Music Television).
      • "All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others" ~ George Orwell in "Animal Farm".
      • "The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion" ~ Tacitus
      • "... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'" ~ Benjamin Franklin
      • "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it." ~ Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
      • "The only new thing in this world is the history you do not know" ~ President Harry S. Truman
      • "... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty ... And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." ~ Thomas Jefferson. Nov. 13. 1787, letter to William S. Smith.
      • "How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), letter to John Pitts, January 21, 1776
      • "A person is a legal concept both permitting rights to and imposing duties on one by law." ~ Defined
      • "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars." ~ Unknown
      • "That measures of this nature [military conscription] should be debated at all in the councils of a free government is cause of dismay. The question is nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered and despotism embraced in its worst form." ~ Daniel Webster
      • "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality." ~ Dr. Michael Ellner

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