Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Guantanamo is just a warm American version of the Rusian Siberia. They are both prisons for political prisoners.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The history of liberty is the history of the limitations placed on the government.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encrochment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.

They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor saftey.

Today we need a nation of Minutemen: citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. This history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We are fast approaching the stage in the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest period of human history; the stage of rule by brute force.

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism make each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are nothing more then a government jobs program for highly paid generals and a government welfare program for the corporations in the military industrial complex.

The "War on Drugs" is just a jobs program for highly paid cops, prosecutors, probation officers and prison guards along with being a government welfare program for the businesses that are involved in the prison construction industry.

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerfull force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have the constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

There are only two important questions in government! “Who are we going to steal the money from?” Second and the most important “Who are we going to give the stolen money to?”

There are only two important questions in government! “Who are we going to tax?” Second and the most important “Who are we going to give the tax money to?”

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.

Government of the people, by the elected officials and appointed bureaucrats, for the elected officials, appointed bureaucrats and special interest groups that helped get them elected.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

It is a cruel hoax to seek to persuade the American people that the Bill of Rights should be watered down in response to rising crime rates.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Do not critize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.

Democracy is just a form of government where the slaves get to select their master by voting every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or so years. Slaves in democratic systems naively say they are free men because they vote for their master.

Democracy is just a form of slavery where the slaves get to select their master by voting every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or so years. Slaves in a democracy naively say they are free men because they vote for their master.

When an elected official, politician or government bureaucrat says they are a “public servant” it is an oxymoron, just as if a slave had said that he was the master of his owner.

Elected officials, politicians and government bureaucrats are our masters, not our servants.

Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich Marshall gave several different versions of this quote on how easy it is for government rulers to get their people to go to war by telling them they are in danger.

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

“Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?”

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Hermann Goering - Hitler’s Reich Marshall

Did you VOTE for the Pentagon?
Did you VOTE for the Federal Reserve?
Did you VOTE for the Nuclear arms race?
Did you VOTE for the CIA?
Did you VOTE for the Iraq war?
Did you VOTE for the Afghanistan war?
Did you VOTE for the Drug war?
Did you VOTE for the Star Wars?
Did you VOTE for Obamacare?
Did you VOTE for the Income tax?

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up

Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway, so I didn't speak up.

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

"The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else."

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ”

Lets face it the Founders didn't create the Second Amendment to allow people to kill defenseless, unarmed school children.

The Second Amendment was created to allow people to kill well armed government tyrants.

In 1776 that meant allowing the people to have swords, flintlock rifles and canons. Now it means allowing the people to have machine guns, rocket launchers, anti-tank guns and all the other weapons the well armed government tyrants have.

Lets face it the Founders didn't create the Second Amendment to allow people to kill defenseless, unarmed school children.

The Second Amendment was created to allow people to kill well armed government tyrants.

Sadly the Second Amendment has been flushed down the toilet and the people are more or less defenseless against the well armed American government which spends more on weapons then all the other countries of the world combined.

Lets face it the Founders didn't create the Second Amendment to allow people to kill defenseless, unarmed school children.

The Second Amendment was created to allow people to kill well armed government tyrants.

A lot of people will point out that letting people have guns will allow nut jobs to murder a few innocent children like in the recent Connecticut school shooting. And those people are 100 percent correct.

Those same people seem to forget that NOT allowing people to have guns has allowed government nut jobs and tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others to murder millions of innocent civilians.

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