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THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD TO FACE IS THAT YOUR BELIEFTS ARE BASED ON LIES !

• Americans have short memories and find it hard to conect the "dots". The "TRUTH" can be found if you read what the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, the CFR, the politicans and others have said in the past.•

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"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." --Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803)

"There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Federalist Papers No. 78, Alexander Hamilton

In a contest between the Constitution and treaties, the Constitution prevails. As the Supreme Court explained in Reid vs.Covert (1957), in an opinion joined by civil-libertarian icons Chief Justice Earl Warren and Associate Justices Hugo Black,William O. Douglas and William Brennan:

"No agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on Congress, or on any other branch of government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution. . . .It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, as well as those who were responsible for the Bill of Rights, let alone alien to our entire constitutional history and tradition to construe Article VI as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international agreement without observing constitutional prohibitions."

"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights, "was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." Supreme Court Justice Jackson 1943

"We [public servants] have no more right to decline the jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution. Chief Justice John Marshall stated in Cohens v Virginia, 6 wheat (19 U.S.) 264, 404:

"The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people. ..." (Saint George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries, 1803, Volume 1,Appendix, Note D).

"No state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support it.” Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 78 S.Ct. 1401 (1958).

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."- U.S. Supreme Court -339 U.S. 382, 447

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...” — General Douglas MacArthur 1957

“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” — Albert Einstein letter to Sigmund Freud July 30, 1932

“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.” — Michael Parenti Political scientist and author of Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

“The U.S. Government spends more than $400,000,000 per year to employ more than 8000 workers to create propaganda favourable to the United States. The result: 90 films per year, twelve magazines in 22 languages, and 800 hours of Voice of America programming in 37 languages with an estimated audience of 75 million listeners — all describing the ‘virtues’ of the American way.” — Pratkanis and Aronson Age of Propaganda: the everyday use and abuse of persuasion 1992

“The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President’s foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting ‘intelligence’ justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support presidential policy.

“Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.” — Ralph McGehee former CIA intelligence analyst Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA

“To make sense of [American] political discourse, it’s necessary to give a running translation into English, decoding the doublespeak of the media, academic social scientists and the secular priesthood generally.

“...the effect [of doublespeak] is to make it impossible to find words to talk about matters of human significance in a coherent way. We can then be sure that little will be understood about how our society works and what is happening in the world...” — Noam Chomsky "What Uncle Sam Really Wants"

“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” — Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger 1916

“One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change.” — David Barsamian journalist and publisher

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” — Alexis de Tocqueville French political thinker, traveller author of Democracy in America 1805-1859

“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.” — Herman Goering Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander at the Nuremberg Trials

"The law of supply and demand is not to be conned."--Alan Greenspan essay "Gold and Economic Freedom"

``The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.'' -Nelson Rockefeller

``I want to own nothing and control everything'' -J D Rockefeller I

``The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.'' -Larry P. McDonald, US Congressman, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

``The real menace of our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as 'international bankers.''' -John F. Hylan, 1911, then mayor of New York

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"We have no unalienable rights...The Constitution is merely a piece of paper…Government should not be restrained because it can do good things for people." Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard; Debate at Franklin & Marshal, college professor, September 27, 2000

"If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, [the People] may retain [their money] until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility." Continental Congress in 1774

Hepburn vs Griswold 8 Wall 513: The Court held that:

"we are obliged to conclude that an act making mere promises to pay dollars a legal tender in payment of debts previously contracted is not a means appropriate plainly adopted and really calculated to carry into effect any express power vested in Congress and such an act is inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution and that it is prohibited by the Constitution"

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.'' -Ayn Rand

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority….National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." ( July 20, 1992, p. 70. ) Strobe Talbot, Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, -revealed the true aims of today's power elites back in '92 with his very revealing Time commentary.

"The Council on Foreign Relations is ‘the establishment.’ Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.” —former Congressman John Rarick, in 1971

"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power—political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.” —Senator Barry Goldwater, from his book With No Apologies.

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control...Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” —former Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, before being conveniently killed while aboard a 747 supposedly shot down by the Soviet Union over North Korea.

"Totalitarian functionaries tell lies because that is the way they operate, by habit and by principle. “Men are so simple,” wrote Machiavelli in The Prince, “and so much the creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find someone ready to be deceived.”

"America had degenerated into the archetypal Veneer Society, a land where the superficial impression is one of great wealth, but which, underneath that thin, misleading outer layer, is made of cheap, short-lived and inferior quality materials - all bought on created credit - the better to give its insistent consumers, but increasingly uncompetitive producers, a phony feeling of well-being, so they might maintain the necessary belief in the superiority of their ways and so conceal the true depths to which a century of Collectivist thinking has reduced their once-shining Republic of sovereign individuals. Yes, the more we thought about it and the further we extended the metaphor to consider its corporate, governmental, financial and monetary systems, the more it rang true that America has become the Veneer Society - a triumph of outward style over real substance. It must have been what fourth century Rome felt like, too, for those unlucky enough to have experienced it." - Sean Corrigan

"This excerpt shows evidence of how the UN is similar to Washington, another bunch of politicians making money from their policies."

"These few events do not begin to reveal the depth of corruption and cronyism that plague the United Nations bureaucracies."

In the words of former Republican Party official Clifford May, now president of a Washington think tank, there are "five things grownups should no longer believe in: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Tinker Bell, the United Nations and the 'international community.'

"If Americans win a war ( not just against Saddam Hussein but the longer-term struggle ) and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything. —Lance Morrow, Time, March 17 "

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations—One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared ‘ammunition’ in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.” —Curtis Dall, son-in-law of FDR, from his book My Exploited Father-in-Law.

"On Dec 7, 1941, there were no movie stars treading the waters of Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately those troops were under the command of a Commander in Chief, FDR, who with malice and aforethought sent them to their deaths and disfigurement.

Most of the brave troops are willing to defend this country, would we could have leaders that were true to them. " - J. Franklin

"People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect." ~~ H.L. Mencken

"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change." -- David Barsamian, journalist and publisher

"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the greatest propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." -- Michael Parenti, political scientist and author

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." -- Howard Zinn, historian and author

"There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state." -- Alexander Cockburn, journalist

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. The business of the journalists 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. 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, Chief of Staff, New York Times ( in 1953! )

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." -- Noam Chomsky, American linguist

"As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl." -- Noam Chomsky, American linguist

``The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'' -H.L. Mencken

``We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.'' -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995

"George Bush is now an international terrorist as far as I'm concerned." MAGGIE LAIDLAW

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"How free is speech if there are limits to its distribution?" Terry Murphy - C-SPAN Vice President

"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 1919

"The term “national debt” really is a misnomer. It’s not the nation’s debt, but rather the federal government’s debt." Ron Paul

"The economy has been better until recently than I would have guessed. The consumer has hung in there. I don't know whether he's like Wile E. Coyote off the cliff and his feet are going and he doesn't know he's in trouble yet. It takes time to unravel and we haven't done it yet." John Embry

"The dictionary defines anarchism as "the theory that all forms of government interfere unjustly with individual liberty and should be replaced by the voluntary association of cooperative groups." Anarchy has been given a bum rap over the years. It doesn't mean "no rules." It means "no rulers." Our representative form of government is supposed to closely resemble anarchy. That's the way it was designed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, two documents whose sole purpose is to sharply limit the power of government. That's the way it was designed by the Founding Fathers. Call it anarchy, or call it self-government, or call it autarchy, it is the political system that maximizes personal power. Consider the possibility that government = failure, chaos, and disorder; while autarchy (self-government) = success, harmony, and peace! (YOU DON'T NEED A GOVERNMENT WHEN YOU SELF-RULE AS FREE PEOPLE!)

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn. "— George Washington

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public". -Theodore Roosevelt

"For more than six hundred years - that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English and American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that "it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws." Unless such be the right and duty of jurors, it is plain that, instead of juries being a "palladium of liberty" - a barrier against the tyranny and opression of the government - they are really mere tools in its hands, for carrying into execution any injustice and oppression it may desire to have executed.
But for their right to judge of the law, (and the justice of the law), juries would be no protection to an accused person, (even as to matters of fact); for, if the government can dictate to a jury whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence. That is, it can dictate what evidence is admissable, and what inadmissable, (and also what force or weight is to be given to the evidence admitted.) And if the government can thus dictate to a jury the laws of evidence, it can not only make it necessary for them to convict on a partial exhibition of the evidence rightfully pertaining to the case, but it can even require them to convict on any evidence whatever it pleases to offer them." Lysander Spooner

"The American legal system has been "corrupted almost beyond recognition," Fifth District U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones told the Federalist Society at its Feb. 28, 2003 meeting at the Harvard Law School."

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." Henry Kissinger

"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." SIR JOSIAH STAMP, ( President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain )

‘The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight’ JFK (Shot 10 days later)

"The consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it." General Robert E. Lee

“Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.” Thomas Jefferson

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn. " George Washington

"...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

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Thomas Paine

"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and genuine to the bad and counterfeit." Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." John F. Kennedy

``The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'' -H.L. Mencken

``We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.'' -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." - Rebuilding America's Defenses - Project For The New American Century, September 2000

"The implication or latent threat of terror was sufficient to insure that the people would comply.” William Colby,

"For the governing; nothing but a weapon for attainment of aggressive and mercenary aims. For the governed; the denial of human dignity, common sense and conscience and slavish subjection to those who are in authority. " Tolstoy

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert Kennedy (Shot)

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. What, in its essence, is Fascism, but ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776."

"Those few who can understand the system ( check book money and credit ) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on it favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." ROTHSCHILDS BROS. OF LONDON

"Give me the power to issue a nation's money; then I do not care who makes the law." ANSELM ROTHSCHILD

"Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And in each instance, a New World Order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end." President George Bush - February, 1990 fundraiser in San Francisco

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." James Madison, 1798

"Is it not just possible that we may become corrupted at home by the reaction of arbitrary political maxims in the East upon our domestic politics, just as Greece and Rome were demoralised by their contact with Asia?" ~ Richard Cobden, 1850

"Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and tendencies that were hidden. In times of peace the sense of the State flags in a republic that is not militarized. For war is essentially the health of the State." ~ Randolph Bourne, 1919

“Something wicked this way comes.” - from Macbeth

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." -Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People-

"Down to gehenna or up to the throne he travels fastest who travels alone." -Rudyard Kipling, The Winners-

"Central Banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise" Alan Greenspan in Congressional testimony, 1998

`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.'' -Gustavus Myers, History of The Great American Fortunes

``To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.'' -Bill Clinton, State of the Union address, 2000-Jan-27

``By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens...'' -John Maynard Keynes

``I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself.... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.'' -Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU

``The real menace of our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as 'international bankers.''' -John F. Hylan, 1911, then mayor of New York

``The Federal Reserve Banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.'' -Congressman Louis T. McFadden

``...From now on depressions will be scientifically created.'' -Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913, on the Federal Reserve Act
``Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.'' -Mark Twain

``All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.'' -Thomas Jefferson

"... the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit to it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity" (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1995, p. 64.)

"In a March 26th Wall Street Journal op-ed column, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice insisted that "the coalition currently assembled to disarm Iraq shows the way" by foreshadowing the treatment other nations can expect if they disobey UN disarmament decrees. Reiterating a familiar Bush administration theme, Rice placed the war on Iraq in the context of 9-11, which she said represented "one of the relatively rare earthquakes that cause lasting tectonic shifts in international politics...."

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." Alexander Fraser Woodhouslee

"I believe in the worth and dignity of each human being. All people on earth have an equal claim to life, liberty, and justice-and no ideal, or philosophy is superior to a SINGLE human life." David O. Rankin

" In a mature Republic, which is what the United States was created as, the government is an employee, a custodian of national sovereignty ruling only with the permission of the people, and its function is to obey orders, not to issue them." Michael Rivero 2003

"All paper money seeks its intrinsic value, which is zero" Pierre Lassonde

"The public pronunciations don't mean anything. Everything of importance goes on in private meetings behind closed doors." Richard Perle

"A nation can only be unified by a hostile threat. And whan such a threat is not available it has to be created. " Paul Warburg

"One of the main points in Leo Strauss' political philosophy: religion is an important tool to keep the dominated masses in line, but is completely irrelevant for the small power elite. " Leo Strauss

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." Carl Jung

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Dan Quayle.

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." David Dinkins, New York City Mayor.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president." Hillary Clinton.

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes." Adlai Stevenson.

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep." Clinton aide George Stephanopolous.

"Heaven is an American salary, a Chinese cook, an English house, and a Japanese wife. Hell is defined as having a Chinese salary, an English cook, a Japanese house, and an American wife." James H. Kabbler III.

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." Dan Quayle.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers." Daniel J. Boorstin.

"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." T.F. Buxton

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Cicero

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