President John Adams

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

Samuel Adams

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

Alfred Alder

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

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.

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."

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'."

Noam Chomsky

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

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."

Albert Einstein

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

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."

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"Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."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

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

"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

Patrick Henry

". . . 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."

Thomas Jefferson

"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

"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.

Merrill Jenkins

"Those unaware are unaware of being unaware."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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

"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."

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

Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged

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

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."

Justice Clarence Thomas
United States Supreme Court

"I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now."

President Harry Truman

"I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth on them; it makes them feel like they're in Hell!"

Mark Twain

"In the Beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

Wall Street Journal

"California is still one of the best places in America to build a successful small business. All you have to do is to start with a large one."

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