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Edward Abbey

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Lord Acton

"Liberty has not existed outside of Christianity."

President John Adams

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

"The church is the moral compass of society."

"We have no constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people."

"A Standing Army," Adams asserted, "however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the Liberties of the People."

President John Quincy Adams

"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the word of God or by the strong arm of man: either by the Bible or by the bayonet."

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
-  On July 4, 1821.

"The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived."

Samuel Adams

"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."
(speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776)

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."

"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
- The Federalist, No. 29

Alfred Alder

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."

Donald C. Alexander
IRS Commissioner

"The mission of the service is to encourage and achieve the highest possible degree of voluntary compliance.
Federal Register, March 1974

American Bar Association Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants
Preliminary Report, August 8, 2002

"The government has taken the position that with no meaningful judicial review, an American citizen alleged to be an enemy combatant could be detained indefinitely without charges or counsel on the government's say-so.

T. Coleman Andrews
Commissioner of IRS

"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."
U.S. News & World Report May 25, 1956

Anonymous

"When you reach for the money is when they slip on the handcuffs."  (regarding government funding for vouchers)

"There is no law limiting how intrusive a search and seizure raid can be."
Unnamed IRS Agent

P.S. Prof. John Arquilla
Information Warfare and Special  Operations Expert at the Naval Postgraduate School

"The idea of such an attack (like 9-11) was well known. It had been wargamed as a possibility in exercises before Sept. 11, 2001."

Dwight E. Avis
Head of ATF
IRS House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearings 1953

"Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now the situation is as different as day and night. Consequently, your same rules just will not apply... "

Charles Barron
New York City Councilman

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health."
--  Speaking of slave reparations to a crowd at the Millions for Reparations March in Washington, D.C., August 17, 2002.

Bernard Baruch

"All wars are economic in origin."

Gary Bauer

"So, let's review the country that our federal courts have been constructing for us. It is a place where unborn children can be destroyed on a whim, a nation that requires parental permission for a tattoo, but not an abortion. It is a country where a copy of the Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn is a threat to our liberty and the words 'Under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is a violation of the separation of Church and state. And soon it may be a place that allows men to marry men, effectively destroying 2000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition on the meaning of marriage."

Frederic Bastiat

"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."

Henry Bellmon
Senator (1969)

"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.'"

Hugo Black
Supreme Court Justice

"The United States has a system of taxation by confession."
U.S. v. Kahriger

William Blackstone

"This law of nature, being co-_eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."
- Commentaries on the Law of England (1765)

Thomas Brooks

"There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone."

Senator Richard Bryan
Nevada

"As you know, the Senate Finance Committee held a series of hearings on problems with the complex tax code and the IRS. These hearings brought public many horror stories on the tactics used by the IRS. Additionally, my office received an anonymous fax which indicated that the regional offices of the IRS were maintaining quotas on collection agents; in effect rewarding these agents not for accuracy, but for how much they collected. I immediately contacted the new IRS Director who assured me publicly that practice would end. This practice has long been illegal, and legislation has now been passed that will strengthen the agency responsible for curbing this and other abuses.”
November 9, 1999.

Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

C. Anton Burnette

"We need to free ourselves and our families from the bondage of television. We need to understand that it used by our enemies as a weapon against us to 'program' our minds. That is why they are called TV 'programs'."

President George H. W. Bush -

"Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge.... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."
-  September 11, 1990 televised address:

"[The Gulf Crisis] has to do with a new world order.  And that new world order is only going to be enhanced if, this newly activated peace-keeping function of the United Nations proves to be effective."
-  January 9, 1991 Press Conference

President George W. Bush

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." December 18, 2000

Richard E. Byrd
Virginia House Speaker
1910

"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, arid detectives will descend upon the state."
predicting what would happen if the federal Congress were to enact a federal Income tax.

Mortimer Caplin
IRS Commissioner

"Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance.
1975 IRS IR Audit Manual

Brock Chisholm
former director of UN World Health Organization

"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."

Noam Chomsky

"If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."

Senator Frank Church
Chairman, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
94th Congress, First Session

"If the law does not assure that tax returns filed by Americans will not be turned against them, our system of voluntary compliance with the tax laws faces a doubtful future.
Volume 3, Internal Revenue Service (October 2, 1975)

Cicero

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."

Jim Clymer
National Chairman
Constitution Party

"Our American Independence is as much in jeopardy today as it was during the dark days of the American Revolution."

Jack Cole Co. v. MacFarland
337 S.W. 2d. 453, 455-456 (Tenn. 1960)

"Since the Right to receive income or earnings is a Right belonging to every person, this right cannot be taxed as a privilege."

President Calvin Coolidge

"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be
difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country...."

Tench Coxe
Friend of President James Madison and member of Continental Congress

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves.   Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."  -  Freeman's Journal, 20 Feb. 1778.

"The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them."

Judge Cummings
U.S. Federal Judge

"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. v. Dickerson (7th Circuit 1969)

Dr. Jose Delgado
Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School
MK Ultra Experimenter who demonstrated his radio controlled bull experiment on CNN in 1985

"We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who
deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain."
-Congressional Record No. 26, Vol. 118, February 24, 1974

Thomas Donnelly

"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: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. The Project For A New American Century, pg 63

Pastor Terry Dowd

"I remember when ships were made of wood and men were made of steel. Now it's just the opposite."

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
leader of the World Wildlife Fund

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- quoted in 'Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?', Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95)

Eichmann

"I was just following orders."

Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject."

"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.

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

Senator Sam Ervin

"Apart from constitutional considerations, no-knock laws are bad. If its people are to have a respect for law, a nation must have respectable laws, and no law is respectable if it authorizes officers to act like burglars, and robs the people of the only means they have for determining whether those who seek to invade their habitations violently or by stealth are officers or burglars."

"The Privacy Act, if enforced would be a pretty good thing. But the government doesn't like it. Government has an insatiable appetite for power, and it will not stop usurping power unless it is restrained by laws they cannot repeal or nullify. There are mighty few laws they cannot nullify."

Form1040 Tax Instruction Booklet

"You are among the millions of Americans who comply with the tax law voluntarily."
1992

Vicente Fox
(on the surrender of U.S. Sovereignty)

“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda, such as human rights and democracy, questions of gender and discrimination, the protection of the environment or the war on organized crime and corruption.”

“.... The construction of new rules of international co-existence must continue.... we are actively participating in various forums in the construction of this international architecture.”

Ken Freeman
Vietnam Veteran and Chairman of Alliance for Citizens Rights (ACR) in Alabama

"The Ten Commandments summarize the basis of our structures of government, of our ethics and of our moral codes. To remove them is to remove the very ground on which we stand as a nation and as a people.  We are gathered here today to say that this is a battle worth fighting! To the enemies of freedom, we are here to say, 'Thou shalt not' destroy this nation from within. And that "we the people" shall defend America from all her enemies- foreign or domestic!"

Milton Friedman

"If you want more of something, subsidize it."

Albert Gallatin
Secretary of the Treasury

"An internal tax on consumption essentially differs from a tax on visible property because, in the last case, nothing is more requisite than an account of what a man appears to be possessed of, whilst, in the other, it is necessary to know the quantity and quality of the article consumed; and in order to attain that knowledge a severe inquisition must take place... and... extraordinary & dangerous powers must be given to the collectors."

Gandhi

"Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves."

"Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history."

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless corrupt."

"Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation."

"Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."

James Garfield

"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress.  If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.  If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature."

Joseph Goebbels

"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a 'Big Lie' than a small one, if it is repeated often enough."

Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler's Reich-Marshall

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag 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. This is easy. All you have to do is 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 every country."
-  speaking at the Nuremberg Trials following WWII

Fred Goldberg
IRS Commissioner

"We have a voluntary compliance system."
Nightline with Ted Koppel, April 13, 1990

Grace Commission

"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."
Report submitted to President Ronald Reagan in 1984

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