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General Douglas MacArthur

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

President James Madison

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Federalist Papers 47

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it, we have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?"
Federalist Papers 62

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of propert

"[The Constitution preserves]...the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . [where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- U.S. Constitution ratification convention, Massachusetts, 1788

President James Madison
continued...

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war . . . and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
-   April 20, 1795

Gary Makovski
Special IRS Agent

"If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you."
Testifying under oath in U.S. v. Lloyd

Chief Justice John Marshall

"The power to tax involves the power to destroy."

Maxim of law

"He does not appear to have retained his consent, if he have changed anything through the means of a party threatening. Non videtur consensum retinuisse si quis ex praescripto minantis aliquid immutavit."

"Where the law is uncertain, there is no law. Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum."

"When the law fails to serve as a rule, almost everything ought to be suspected. Ubi non adest norma legis, omnia quasi pro suspectis habenda sunt."

"Where there is no authority to enforce, there is no authority to obey. Ubi non est condendi auctoritas, ibi non est parendi necessitas."

"Resignation is the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right. Resignatio est juris proprii spontanea refutatio."

more Maxim of law

"A wrong is not done to one who knows and wills it. Scientia et volunti non fit injuria."

Robert McNamara
Former Secretary of Defense

"The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential….There are many ways to make the death rate increase."

Daniel J. Mitchell
Economist

"Compare this (40% to 75% total local, State and Federal tax rate) to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor a third of their output and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?"

sir Thomas More
(1478 - 1535).

"Everywhere do I perceive a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage under that name and pretext of the commonwealth."

Gouverneur Morris
Signer of the United States Constitution

"We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate - as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism - Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to the level of folly and guilt."

Edward R. Murrow

"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."

Richard Nixon

"When we have them by the [testicles] their hearts and minds will follow."

Jennifer O'Neal

"To have the opportunity to encourage and comfort the hearts of women who have suffered is humbling, and making the whole truth known about abortion is absolutely necessary."

P.J. O'Rourke
Civil Libertarian

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

George Orwell

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: The thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them...."  [Taken from his book, 1984.]

Thomas Paine

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must... undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the
liberty of appearing." 
Rights of Man, 1791

Theophilus Parsons
Massachusetts Convention for Ratification of the U.S. Constitution

"But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms. An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law; and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his fellow-citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation."

Ron Paul

"I think the United Nations is dangerous to our republic and therefore we ought not to participate."
- Washington Times, March 9, 2003

"If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have:  no federal meddling in our schools;  no Federal Reserve;  no U.S. membership in the UN;  no gun control;  and no foreign aid.  We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor";   no American troops in 100 foreign countries;  no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track";  no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights;  no attacks on private property;  no income tax.  We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget.  The government would be small, frugal, and limited."

Ms. Shirley D. Peterson
former Commissioner of the IRS

"Eight decades of amendments and accretions to the Code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze. The rules are unintelligible to most citizens - Including those who hold advanced degrees and including many who specialize in tax law. The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law.

"It is also a known fact that the Internal Revenue Code is a very easily misunderstood area of law, even misunderstood by trained professionals. Judges and lawyers admittedly do not know the tax laws."
"Tax Policy Lecture" before Southern Methodist University, April 14, 1993

HRH Prince Philip
Duke of Edinburgh

"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the ``cull'' to the size of the surplus population."
- preface to "Down to Earth" 1988, p.8.

Mary Pickford

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Plato

"The penalty good men and women pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Publication 21

"'Do you have to file a tax return and pay taxes?'

"Answer:
'The U. S. income tax system is built on the idea of 'voluntary compliance.' This means that it is left to the taxpayer to keep the necessary records, file a return on time, pay any required taxes, and meet any other requirements of the tax law. The system is built on trust in the citizens to know their responsibilities and to do what needs to be done. Taxpayers voluntarily follow the steps the tax system lays out. Failure to do so can result in penalties.

"Two aspects of the Federal Income Tax system - voluntary compliance with the law and self-assessment of tax - make it important for you to understand your rights and responsibilities as a taxpayer. 'Voluntary compliance' places on the taxpayer the responsibility for filing an income tax return. You must decide whether the law requires you to file a return. If it does, you must file your return by the date it is due. IRS Publication 21."

Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged

"Degrees do not matter...one does not bargain about inches of evil."

Congressman John E. Rankin

"The United Nations is the Greatest Fraud in all History. It's Purpose is to Destroy the United States."

Ronald Reagan

"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity."

Ambrose Redman

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear. "

Ernst Rohm

"The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals, all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves."

Dr. Benjamin Rush
Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"[S]imple democracy [is]...one of the greatest of evils."

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