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Fwd. A MESSAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS

All of these people were not talking about the same things, althoughit may seem so when their words are taken out of context and groupedtogether like this. It is here only for information and to provokethought. F. K Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:38:07 -0400A MESSAGE FOR ALL AMERICANSA MESSAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS (From A Chorus Of Quotes)"Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people inthe world." Neil Postman, author, and professor at NYU, from AmusingOurselves to Death, Penguin Books, 1985"The world is not the way they tell you it is." Adam Smith,1723-1790, economist and philosopher"The news and truth are not the same thing." Walter Lippmann,1889-1974, American journalist"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jumpup, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as ifnothing had happened." Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English statesman"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prizethe rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in theregion of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, American statesman and inventor"If you want to know about the world and understand and educateyourself, you have to dig; dig up books and articles, read and findout for yourself." John Stockwell, the highest-ranking CIA officialever to leave the agency and go public, from a lecture given inOctober 1987"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley,1894-1963, English novelist and critic "Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko." JohnLoeffler, host Steel on Steel radio program "The American people may think that they live in a free country when,in reality, things could not be more controlled. The American publicmust be made aware of what is really taking place in the UnitedStates." Melvin Sickler"But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed; and hiddenthat will not be known"Luke 12:2"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher "Television in its present form…[is] the opiate of the people of theUnited States."Richard M. Nixon, 37th President"Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating aspecies of information that might properly be calleddisinformation...Disinformation does not mean false information. Itmeans misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented orsuperficial information - information that creates the illusion ofknowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."Neil Postman, author, and professor at NYU"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lieoutright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and tosell the country for his daily bread...We are tools and vassals forrich men behind the scenes...We are intellectual prostitutes." JohnSwinton, New York Times editor in a speech before the New York PressClub, 1953"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide theyought to have."Richard Salant, former president CBS news, from the book, EconomicSolutions by Peter Kershaw, page 29"We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide whatthe news is. The news is what we tell you it is." David Boylan, WTVTTampa Bay, FL station manager, April 16, 1997"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance inthe major media."William Colby, former CIA director"Disinformation is a large part of its [CIA] covert actionresponsibility, and the American people are the primary target of itslies." Ralph McGehee, former CIA intelligence analyst, author ofDeadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA"The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operationsaround the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses,radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partiallycontrolled many more." Michael Parenti, political scientist and author"The lie can only be maintained for such time as the State can shieldthe people from the political, economic and/or military consequencesof the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use allof it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemyof the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatestenemy of the State."Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Nazi propoganda minister"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, TimeMagazine and other great publications whose directors have attendedour meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almostforty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our planfor the world if we had not subject to the bright lights of publicityduring those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated andprepared to march towards a world government. The supranationalsovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surelypreferable to the national autodetermination practiced in pastcenturies."David Rockefeller, international banker, founder of the TrilateralCommission, chairman of Council on Foreign Relations 1970-1985,remarks in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission inJune, 1991"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in theWest is carried out by experts who have had the best training in theworld - in the field of advertizing - and have mastered thetechniques with exceptional proficiency...Yours are subtle andpersuasive; ours are crude and obvious...I think that the fundamentaldifference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quitesimple. You tend to believe yours...and we tend to disbelieve ours." aSoviet correspondent based five years in the U.S."One of the Iraq war's major casualties is the credibility of theAmerican media. Nobody takes it seriously."BBC World News commentator,March 24, 2003"The owners and managers of the press determine which person, whichfacts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach thepublic." Report by the Commission on Freedom of the Press, quoted inDemocracy for the Few by Michael Parenti, and Don't Blame the Peopleby Robert Cirino"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people willeventually come to believe it."Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propoganda minister"The United States is not only number one in military power but alsoin the effectiveness of its propaganda system."Edward S. Herman,political economist and author, from Z magazine, September 2001, page 42"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and whatAmericans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propagandaaccomplishments of the dominant political mythology."Michael Parenti, author and lecturer"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don'tthink."Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945"Nothing just happens in politics. If something happens you can besure it was planned that way."Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd PresidentThere are two views of history. 1: History happens by accident or 2:It is planned.The general public is taught that history happens by accident.However, the upper echelons...know that history is planned.R.E.McMaster, Jr., financial advisor and author"I claim... the existence of a conspiracy for the destruction of theWestern World as the prelude for shepherding mankind into a sheep'spen run as a prelude to One World tyranny." A.K. Chesterton,1896-1973, jounalist"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with aconspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." J. Edgar Hoover,director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972"A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of alllands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence andcontrol over America and the entire world." Ezra Taft Benson,1899-1994, Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower adminsitration"...the world is governed by very different personages to what isimagined by those who are not themselves behind the scenes." BenjaminDisraeli, 1801-1884, former Prime Minister of Britain"The evidence is there, but in my opinion, the average person does NOTwant to know, and even when confronted with it, will look the otherway."Svali, the pseudonym of a woman who was a mind programmer for theIlluminati until 1996"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completelycontrolled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer aGovernment of free opinion, no longer a Government byconviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinionand duress of small groups of dominant men." Woodrow Wilson, 28thPresident"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financialelement in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S.since the days of Andrew Jackson."Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32ndPresident, remarks in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E.Mandell House"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist stateto supplant our democratic government and is working closely with thefascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty ofopportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of ourAmerican ruling families are to the Nazi regime...Certain Americanindustrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimesinto being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to helpFascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep itthere." William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937"Fifty men have run America and that's a high figure." JosephKennedy, the father of president John F. Kennedy"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisiblegovernment owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility tothe people." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, April 19, 1906"This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner atleast in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectlymapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in internationalorganizations, in financial circles, in the field of masscommunications; press, cinema, radio and television."Father Pedro Arrupe, head of the Jesuit Order of the Roman CatholicChurch, from a UPI story December 27, 1965"We operate here under directives which emulate from the WhiteHouse... The substance of the directives under which we operate isthat we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the UnitedStates so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union."Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, 1954"The media have had 50 years to get the story straight but still can'tpresent the basic facts to the American people about the communistthreat that McCarthy tried to expose-and which still existstoday in a different but equally deadly form." Accuracy In MediaReport, July 3, 2003"Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear aboutglasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These areprimarily for outward consumption. There will be no significantinternal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmeticpurposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fallasleep." Mikhail Gorbachev, [on the coming Perestroika deception]speech tothe Politburo, November, 1987"We are moving toward a New World Order, the world of communism. Weshall never turn off that road."Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987, former President of the USSR, currentlyPresident of The Gorbachev Foundation in the former Presidio militarybase in San Francisco, also Chairman of Green Cross International"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood whatCongress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move onWashington; they would not wait for an election...It adds up to apreconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence ofthe United States!"George W. Malone, U.S. Senator from Nevada, speaking before Congressin 1957"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government whichlike a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, statesand nation."John F. Hylan, 1918-1925, former Mayor of New York"The ultimate aim of the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] is tocreate a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an officialpart of it." Dan Smoot, former member of the FBI Headquarters staff inWashington, D.C., American patriot, author, and broadcaster"Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are afew sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They wantAmerica to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship..."Dan Smoot, author of The Invisible GovernmentThe CFR, dedicated to one world government, financed by a number ofthe largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power andinfluence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor,military, education, and mass communication-media should be familiarto every American..."John R. Rarick, Lousiana Congressman"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is theright major crisis and the nations will accept the New WorldOrder."David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, CFR member"There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands ofyears, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual andspiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has asecret Destiny...The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Orderruled by a king with supernatural powers [antichrist]. Thisking was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Orderof the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belongto a family of heroes-perfected human beings." Manley Hall, 33rddegree Mason, from his book, The Secret Destiny of America"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angelesto restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especiallytrue if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond,whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It isthen that all the peoples of the world will plead to deliver them fromthis evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. Whenpresented with this scenario, individual rights will be willinglyrelinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them bythe world government."Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, 1991, former USSecretary of State"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as weare the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a NewWorld Order, and it will force the United States to change it'sperceptions." Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference,Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th, 1994"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, byconquest or consent."James Warburg, banker, CFR member, remarks as he testified before theU.S. Senate, February 17, 1950"...the secret societies were planning as far back as 1917 to inventan artificial threat...in order to bring humanity together in aone-world government which they call the New World Order."William Cooper, former Naval intelligence officer, author, from hisbook Behold A Pale Horse, page 27"...out of these troubled times, our objective - a new world order -can emerge."George H. W. Bush, 1990, 41st President"The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind.It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All ofthese are directed to making the United States a member of a WorldGovernment..."American Mercury Magazine, December 1957, page 92"Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have littleconception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confrontsthem. It is a revolutionary force in that it seeks to overturn theexisting order, but it differs from the spirit of Marx and Lenin inthat it never proclaims itself openly."Tom Bethell, American Spectator, February 1997"We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for itin blood..."Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995, author,historian and public official"Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will dieprotesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of ageneration or so of malcontents..."H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, from his book The New World Order"A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% declinefrom present levels, would be ideal."Ted Turner, media mogul and humanist, from an interview in AudubonMagazine"It's terrible to have to say this. World population must bestabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people perday"Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and humanist, The UNESCOCourier, Nov. 1991, page 13"The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is ofcourse essential...There are many ways to make the death rate Increase."Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, New Solidarity, March 30, 1981"The First and Second World Wars were wars designed to kill millionswere not successful enough hence the new methods outlined in theGlobal 2000 Report...The world is populated with too many redundantpeople who must not be allowed to procreate and consume scarce naturalresources...The Committee of 300 [illuminati] commissioned Cyrus Vanceto write a paper on this subject of how to bring aboutsuch genocide. The paper was produced under the title 'Global 2000Report' and was accepted and approved for action by former PresidentJames Earl Carter, and Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of States, for andon behalf of the US Government."Dr. John Coleman, former intelligence agent of British MI6, from hisreport, Global 2000: A Blueprint For Global Genocide, written in 1992concerning the depopulation agenda of the Club of Rome"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, whatday it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, Imean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautifulmind on something like that?"Barbara Bush, former first lady, on Good Morning America March 18,2003 regarding news coverage of the Iraq war"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in." General ColinPowell, reply when asked about the number of Iraqi people who werekilled by Americans in the 1991 Desert Storm campaign, estimates up to200,000 Iraqi men, women, and children"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreignpolicy."Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a littlelonger."Henry Kissinger"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would bechased down the streets and lynched." George H.W. Bush, cited in theJune 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep andbear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyrannyin their government."Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights ofordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles" BillClinton, 42nd President, March 1, 1993"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow thesubject race to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors whohave allowed their subjects to carry arms have prepared their owndownfall by so doing."Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945"There ought to be limits to freedom." George W. Bush, 43rd President,remark made during a pressconference, May 21, 1999"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, justso long as I'm the dictator."George W. Bush, December 18, 2000, CNN.com"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no questionabout it."George W. Bush, Business Week, July 30, 2001"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need toexplain why I say things."George W. Bush, from Bob Woodward's Bush At War, Nov. 2002"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They neverstop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, andneither do we." George W. Bush, remark made during comments followingsigning of a defense bill, August 5, 2004"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of thisgreat nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security andprotect our homeland."Adolph Hitler, 1933, writing about the creation of the Gestapo"Naturally the common people don't want war...But, after all, it isthe leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always asimple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy,or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communistdictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought tothe bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tellthem they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack ofpatriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same inany country."Herman Goering, Nazi Air Force [Luftwaffe] commander, at the NurembergTrials in 1946"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us ina continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of gravenational emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at homeor some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if wedid not blindly rally behind it..."General Douglas MacArthur, 1957"The Hegelian dialectic is the process by which the ruling eliteinstigate a crisis. Then there is an enormous public outcry thatsomething be done about the problem. So they offer a solution thatbrings about the changes they wanted all along, but which people wouldhave been unwilling to accept initially."Anonymous"[in 1962] the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans forwhat may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government[up to that time]. In the name of anticommunism, they proposedlaunching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their owncountry in order to trick the American public into supporting anill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba." [codenamedOperation Northwoods] James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets:Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, theBilderberger Group, and the Trilateral Commission - founded byBrzezinski for David Rockefeller - have prepared for and are nowmoving to implement open world dictatorship within the next fiveyears. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fightingagainst citizens."Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, PhD, former German defense ministry officialand advisor to former NATO Secretary-General Manfred Werner, November6, 2001"If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction...theConstitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form ofgovernment."General Tommy Franks, Cigar Aficionado magazine, December 2003"Terrorism: a system of government that rules by intimidation[fear]."Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, 1966"Fear is the foundation of most governments."John Adams, 2nd President"Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training ofwholesale murderers."Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910"Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal topatriotism."Aldous Huxley, English novelist"No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous ofliberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger whenthey set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbolinstead of the principle it represents."Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884, Abolitionist author"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first toshrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury thedead."Arundhati Roy, Indian novelist"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws."Cornelius Tacitus, 55-117AD, Roman historian"Many of the laws passed after 9/11 will result in dictatorship oncethey are enforced; today, we retain our freedoms only because thesetype of laws have not yet been implemented."David Bay, director of Cutting Edge Ministries, Lexington, SC"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: thestage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, whilethe citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of thedarkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, author and philosopher"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so muchbecause of any threat from without, but because of the insideousforces working from within." General Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964"Our threat is not from abroad. The danger is internal, and thesolution can only be internal."General Robert L. Scott, author of God Is My Copilot"If tyranny and oppression ever come to this land, it will be in theguise of fighting a foreign enemy."James Madison, 4th President"The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out ofthe weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginarydangers from abroad,"James Madison, 4th president"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."Martin Luther King, Jr."God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then heinstructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..." George W. Bush,from Israeli Haaretz newspaper, June 24, 2003"My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I amfighting for the work of the Lord."Adolph Hitler, from a speech April 12, 1922"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil."Isaiah 5:20"In the United States, both the Republican and Democratic Parties,with only a few prominent exceptions, have been and are in the pay ofthe corporate media and communication giants."John Nichols, newscorrespondent and author, and Robert McChesney, professor and author"The American political system is essentially a contract between theRepublican and Democratic parties, enforced by federal and statetwo-party laws, all designed to guarantee the survival of both no matterhow many people despise or ignore them." Richard Reeves, author andcolumnist"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the CentralIntelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become theAmerican Gestapo." Harry S. Truman, 33rd President, 1961 source"It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and topropagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let theEstablishment spend any amount of money on arms."John Stockwell, former CIA official"It isn't only Gestapo maniacs who do inhuman things to people. We[the CIA] are responsible for doing inhuman things on a massive scaleto people all over the world."John Stockwell, former CIA official"I sat there in agony thinking about all that had led me to thisprivate hell. My idealism, my patriotism, my ambition, my plans to bea good intelligence officer to help my country fight the communistscourge - what in the hell had happened? Why did we have to bomb thepeople we were trying to save? Why were we napalming young[Vietnamese] children? Why did the CIA, my employer for 16 years,report lies instead of the truth?"Ralph McGehee, former CIA intelligence analyst, Deadly Deceits: My 25Years in the CIA"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic,constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talksabout them."Harold Pinter, English playwriter"Definition of Democracy: A goverment of the masses. Authorityderived through mass meeting or any other form of 'direct'_expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property iscommunistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is thatthe will of the majority shall regulate... without restraint or regardto consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation,discontent, anarchy."U.S. Army Training Manual Concerning Citizenship, 1928"By replacing our republic with a democracy, which permits constantexpansion of government power, they are able to undermine and destroythe American system."Time Bomb, page 238, published by American Freedom Press"Democracy is the road to socialism."Karl Marx, 1818-1883, political philosopher"Democracy is indispensible to socialism. The goal of socialism iscommunism."Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, former leader of Russia and the USSR"He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decideseverything."Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, former leader of the USSR"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe theyare free."Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet, novelist,playwright, courtier, and natural philosopher"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims maybe the most oppressive."C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, English author"There is no war on crime. There is no war on drugs, no war onterrorism. There is only the ongoing effort by the federal governmentto collect as much information on as many people as possible."Jim Redden, author of Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into theEyes and Ears of the State"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannotsurvive treason from within."Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman consul 63 B.C."War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength." George Orwell, 1903-1950, from his futuristic novel 1984"They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a littletemporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."BenjaminFranklin, 1706-1790, statesmen and inventor"If a nation values anything more than freedom, then it will lose it'sfreedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort and securitythat it values, it will lose that too. " Charlie Reese, journalist andcolumnist"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."Edmund Burke, British statesman and orator, 1729-1797"It is the fist responsibility of every citizen to question authority."Benjamin Franklin, American statesmanDissent is the highest form of patriotism." Thomas Jefferson, 3rdPresident"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen fromfalling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep thegovernment from falling into error."Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954, U. S. Supreme Court Justice"I love America, not its government. I am loyal to the Constitution,not to the politicians. I love the traditional American way of life,not the 1984 [George Orwell] version we're living today."Harry Browne, speaker, author, and investment advisor"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of...[Life,Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness], it is the right of the peopleto alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people whoinhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government,they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or theirrevolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."Abraham Lincoln,16th President"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to standby the President or any other public official."Theodore Roosevelt,26th President"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against hisgovernment."Edward Abbey, 1927-1989, environmentalist, philosopher, and author"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can dosomething. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, Iwill do!"Edward Everett Hale, 1822-1909, clergyman and author"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth...For my part,whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the wholetruth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but onelamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience.I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Let us not, Ibeseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer."Patrick Henry, 1736-1799, American patriot and statesman"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the priceof chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! 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