“People deserve what they tolerate.” - Fred Reed
“Submission is the grandmother of all misfortune.” - Guylaine Lanctôt
“People should not be afraid of their governments; people should do away with their governments.” - paraphrase - V
“A main precipitating cause of our revolution was the general search warrant that British customs officers wrote - without going to any court - to break into the American colonists' homes and offices, looking for contraband.” - Justice William Brennan
“To seek justice ... and never spill innocent blood.” - Zorro
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1790
“It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.” - Malcolm X
“It is always the maladapted who move society, the outcasts who revolutionize the way we think.” - Michael Sharpe
“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.” - Ayn Rand, Anthem
“Once a person starts compromising, they often don't stop.” - Ricardo
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment in our liberties.” - James Madison
“A government is nothing more than the Mafia with flags.” - Brad Spangler
“From the robotic perspective there are compliant robots and defective robots, and nothing else.” - Alan G. Carter
“To live would be an awfully big adventure.” - Peter Pan
“Ah, the cleverness of me.” - Peter Pan
“Terrorism isn't aimed at terrifying populaces - it's aimed at terrifying nation-states and the men who own them. And it's working.” - Daniel J. Boone
“Fear is the passion of slaves.” - Patrick Henry
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” - Justice Learned Hand
“I call an animal, a species, or an individual corrupt when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers, what is disadvantageous for it.” - Frederich Nietszche
“Human beings live their lives exactly the way they have been treated as children.” - Alice Miller
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” - Stacia Tauscher
“War is young men dying and old men talking.” - Odysseus (Sean Bean), Troy
“Don't waste your life following some fool's orders!.” - Achilles (Brad Pitt), Troy
“You can't abolish corruption up high - unless you abolish up high.” - John Zube
“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.” - Frederick Bastiat
“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.” - Edward De Bono
“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” - Betrand de Juvenal
“We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us, however we are not non-violent with people who are violent with us.” - Malcolm X
“How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” - Henry David Thoreau, 1849
“The government doesn't protect us; we and our money protect the government.” - Allen Thorton
“The Constitution either authorizes a government such as we have had, or it has been powerless to prevent it.” - Lysander Spooner
“You think the goal justifies the means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it.“ - Wilhelm Reich
“The road to hell is not paved with good intentions, but with acts that violate those intentions.“ - Wade Frazier
“They that can give away essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - engraved on the Statue of Liberty, [Ben Franklin]
“The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.” - Sir William F. Butler
“I would never apply for a permit to own any gun, any more than I would apply for a permit to own a Bible, or Torah, or printing press, or to obtain legal counsel, or to assemble with other citizens.” - Brian Puckett
“Anyone who believes that a license or permit to own and/or carry a firearm is a valid policy to implement and follow -- that one must be 'authorized' by the State to defend oneself -- is afflicted with a faulty mindset.” - Russell Madden
“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 lighly upon you, and posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen.” - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” - James Madison
“Politicians are most alive when their constituents are dying.” - Allen Thorton
“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.” - Adolf Hitler
“There is a reason for the general deterioration as regards liberty. This reason is the increased power of organizations and the increasing degree to which men's actions are controlled by this or that large body.” - Bertrand Russell
“When the rules are set up to make a society ‘adaptive’ to psychopathy, it makes psychopaths of everyone.” - Laura Knight Jadczyk
“Armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” - James Madison, 1795
“A ruler that violates natural law is illegitimate. He has no right to be obeyed, his commands are mere force and coercion. Rulers who act lawlessly, whose laws are unlawful, are mere criminals...” - James A. Donald
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the law-breaker, it breeds contempt for laws. . . . to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.”
- Justice Brandeis, [Olmsted]
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.” - Thomas Jefferson
“All the world is queer save me and thee; and sometimes I think thee a little queer.” - Quaker saying
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater, 1964
“These words, 'temperate and moderate,' are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.” - Thomas Paine, 1792
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson
“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.” - Tom Robbins
“A king is not saved by his mighty Army. A warrior is not saved by his strength. A war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its might it cannot save.” - Psalm 33
“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.” - Henry D. Thoreau
“You cannot force others to be free. You can only act in such a way that you do not prevent their freedom and that they cannot prevent yours.” - John Zube
“Law is not the source, but the codification of human rights. A legislator cannot invent human rights as he sees fit, for real human rights precede legislation. Law can neither create them nor destroy them.” - Jean-Francois Revel
“No person should be held responsible for misdeeds committed by others.” - Richard C.B. Johnsson
“Anyone who maintains himself without using force is productive.” - Allen Thorton
“The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.” - Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
“The entities claiming to be the government are in fact the subsidiary corporations of foreign banking concerns operating a massive commercial fraud and they have conned you into participating in their scam.” - Crack The Matrix
“Belief is holding to a rock; faith is learning how to swim.” - Alan Watts
“A man's worst enemies are those of his own household.” - Jesus
“A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed.” - Dresden James
“If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.” - Huey Long
“I know how to drink. Drinking is a responsibility, I've been doing it since I was 12.” - N.P.
“You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.” - Edwin Louis Cole
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” - Aristotle, Politics
“For as long as men have sought to be free, arbitrary arrest has been a mark and measure of despotism. In every land and time, men have protested and fought against it. It has been a principal cause of every major uprising against established government.” - Alan Barth
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” - John Adams, 1797
“Organized religion has rarely been a powerful force without the assistance of the State.” - Conrad Goeringer
“Monotheism itself is the root of violence.” - Regina Schwartz
“America is unique. It has a government which simply cannot tell the truth, and a people which simply cannot hear the truth. Hence the partnership. Our country is like a tawdry apartment in which everything has been swept under the rug but the residents walk all over the lumpy, undulating floor as if nothing were out of the ordinary.” - Boston T. Party
“I try to live my life so that I could always look my fellowman straight in the eye and tell him to go to hell.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Between the State, which lavishes promises which it is impossible to keep, and the public, which has conceived hopes which can never be realized, two classes of men interpose: the ambitious and the utopians.” - Frédéric Bastiat
“War is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is to human hunger.” - Bruce Kent, International Peace Bureau President
“One way to neutralize a potential activist is to get them to be in a group that does all the wrong things.” - Anonymous
“You can get a lot farther with a smile and a gun than with just a smile.” - Al Capone
“The ultimate test of a belief in free speech should be whether it can be extended to people you hate.” - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
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