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)

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."

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."

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

Cicero

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

J. Edgar Hoover

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

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

"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."

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."

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."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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