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Edward Everett Hale

"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."

Alexander Hamilton

"There is no method of steering clear of this inconvenience, but by authorizing the national government to raise its own revenues in its own way. Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them. The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources. The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions. If inequalities should arise in some States from duties on particular objects, these will, in all probability, be counterbalanced by proportional inequalities in other States, from the duties on other objects. In the course of time and things, an equilibrium, as far as it is attainable in so complicated a subject, will be established everywhere.
Federalist Papers 79

"In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."
Federalist Papers 28

"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens."

Congressman George Hansen

"It's impossible to have religious freedom in any nation where churches are licensed to the government."

Dorcas R. Hardy
former Commissioner of Social Security

"There is no law requiring a person to apply for a Social Security number, and there is no section of title 18, United States Code, making it a crime to not have a social security number."

Dr. Martin Haskell

"...[D]octors use this method of abortion because they find dismemberment (dilation and extraction) at twenty weeks and beyond to be difficult due to the toughness of fetal tissue."
-  a quote from his presentation on partial-birth abortion in Dallas, Texas in 1992.

Patrick Henry

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."

". . . it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? 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."
-  March 23, 1775, Second Virginia Convention

Heraclitus

"Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known."

Adolph Hitler
(1889-1945)

"The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
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."
-  Proposing the creation of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany.

"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them."

J. Edgar Hoover

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."

Stonewall Jackson

"Duty is ours.  Consequences are God's."

John Jay

"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
Castilian Days II, 1872

Thomas Jefferson

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the mind of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?"

"Deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support."

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

"[W]e must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery. And the foreshores of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

more Thomas Jefferson

"The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid chiefly by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?"
2nd Inaugural Address

"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers and opening our door to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching, successively, every article of property and produce."

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."
letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet......We shall see if they are bold enough to take the daring stride their five lawyers have lately taken. If they do, then....I will say that "against this every man should raise his voice," and more should uplift his arm.." - 1815

more Thomas Jefferson

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and on which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the priveilege of their corps. .....................The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption of time and party, its members would become despots." - 1820

"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special [local] governments into the jaws of that which feeds them [the feds]."   -Thomas Jefferson to S. Roane, 1821.

"Having found, from experience that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare crow, they consider themselves secure for life; they sculk from responsibility to public opinion........An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning...."

"A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government."

"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our creator."

more Thomas Jefferson

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."

Merrill Jenkins

"Those unaware are unaware of being unaware."

Eleanor Dwight Jones
(Social Darwinist)
Head of the American Birth Control League

"The time is ripe for us to launch throughout the country a systematic campaign against the present disgenic multiplication of the unfit. The public is beginning to realize that scientific, constructive philanthropy does not merely care for the diseased, the poor and the degenerated, but takes steps to prevent the birth of babies destined to be paupers, invalids, degenerates, or all three."
writing to Lawrence B. Dunham, director of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, Nov. 5, 1930

"The second half of our program is to secure the cooperation of the social agencies in these cities in getting the women of the lowest social and economic class to avail themselves of the contraceptive advice offered them... We ... are concentrating on the practical work of making it possible for the lower social classes to practice birth control. For the good of the race, people of poor stock - incompetant and sickly - should have few or no children, and fortunately they want few or no children. In this matter private interest is in accord with public interest. That is the strength of the birth control movement."

Helen Keller

"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

Rev. D. James Kennedy

"The IRS, a branch of our government, has succeeded in gagging Christians."

Edward M. Kennedy

"The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer."

Ambassador Alan Keyes
2000 Presidential candidate

"We ought to have realized that the income tax is utterly incompatible with liberty. It is actually a form of slavery.... Under the income tax, the government takes whatever percentage of the earner's income it wants. The income tax, therefore, represents our national surrender to the government of control over all the money we earn."

John Maynard Keynes
Economic Consequences of The Peace

"If governments should refrain from regulation....the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'"
-    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963.

Rudyard Kipling

"If any question why we died tell them because our fathers lied."

Henry Kissinger

"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, 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."

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
(Quoted by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Kiss the Boys Goodbye)

Robert Knight
Culture & Family Institute

"How bad was (the sodomy) decision? It was the most destructive federal power grab since Roe vs. Wade."

Gary Kreep
US Justice Foundation

"African-American and Hispanic children should not be discriminated against, but to take the position ... that they're inherently stupid and can't compete, so therefore they need special tools and special privileges, is inherently racist."

Jerome Kurtz
IRS Commissioner

"The IRS's primary task is to collect taxes under a voluntary compliance system."
1980 IR Annual Report

Senator Paul Laxalt

"The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws."

C. S. Lewis

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's 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."

Charles Lindbergh, Sr.
U. S. congressman

"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. . . . When the president signs this act, the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalised. . . . The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation."
(on the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, 1913)

Abraham Lincoln

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven...but we have forgotten God......and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own".

"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become... too proud to pray to the God that made us."

"The only assurance of our national safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and 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."

Loan Association v. Topeka
United States Supreme Court (1874)

"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."

Senator Edward V. Long

"The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens."

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