Quotes from the Internet and elsewhere

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"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews." - Albert Einstein

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"The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law" - Jimmy Carter,

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"You can either be complicit in your own enslavement or you can lead a life that has some kind of integrity and meaning." - Chris Hedges: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

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"It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do." - Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 2001)

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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. - Benjamin Franklin

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After spending the better part of the last five years treating these theories with utmost skepticism, I have devoted serious time to actually studying them in recent months, and have also carefully watched several videos that are available on the subject. I have come to believe that significant parts of the 9/11 theories are true, and that therefore significant parts of the “official story” put out by the U.S. government and the 9/11 Commission are false. -Bill Christison , former National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis

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For the next hour and 40 minutes [after the first 9/11 hijacking] no aircraft was put into the air, even though there was the Andrews Air Force base 10 minutes from Washington DC, a flight of F16s, a whole squadron, of top level fighters. No planes were flown in from other air force bases even though at top speed they were certainly within range. How did that happen? We know that when an aircraft goes off course, it is legal requirement that aircraft are put into the air to check on the position and purpose of commercial aircraft. Why on this single day did that not happen? In the previous 9 months, it had happened 67 times. It was a routine procedure. Why did it not happen on this very important day? That question has never been answered.
- Michael Meacher (born: 1939-11-04 age: 72), former environment minister, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Health in the Blair cabinet. Actually the question has been answered, but not officially, in Mike Ruppert’s book Crossing The Rubicon. Cheney ordered the interceptors to stand down. Buy through Amazon search box above Quotes.

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I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence. - Thomas Jefferson

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Be smart, be intelligent, and be informed. - Fortune Cookie Wisdom

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"The goal of a good society is to structure social relations and institutions so that cooperative and generous impulses are rewarded, while antisocial ones are discouraged. The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment -- or at least much handicap -- to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need." -- Michael Parenti

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." -- John Stuart Mill - (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist Source: On Liberty, 1859

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"For in every city these two opposite parties [people vs aristocracy] are to be found, arising from the desire of the populace to avoid oppression of the great, and the desire of the great to command and oppress the people....For when the nobility see that they are unable to resist the people, they unite in exalting one of their number and creating him prince, so as to be able to carry out their own designs under the shadow of his authority." - Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. IX

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"Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians." : - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.....Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

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"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. - Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

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"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. - Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

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People who are defenders of the US constitution against federal government and the UN (United Nations) and make numerous references to the US constitution should be monitored as potentially murderous and fanatical terrorists by extension should be considered mentally unstable. [Under the new Freedom Commission, mentally unstable people must be medicated on a compulsory basis.] - FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Counter Terrorism brochure from the Phoenix office

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I measured pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my job. I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. The plane does not fit in that hole. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What’s going on? - Albert Stubblebine , Major General, former head of Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence.

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I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC (World Trade Centre) 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by impact damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges. I consider the official FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and 9/11 Commission reports that fires plus impact damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present evidence for the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the US government. - Dr. Steven E. Jones (born: 1949 age: 63) retired Physics Professor at BYU. In other words, the US government covered up the fact they took the buildings down themselves with explosives planted long before the planes hit.

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Mohammed Heikal is a brilliant Egyptian journalist-observer, and sometime Foreign Minister. On 2001-10-10, he said to the Guardian: 'Bin Laden does not have the capabilities for an operation of this magnitude. When I hear Bush talking about al-Qaeda as if it were Nazi Germany or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, I laugh because I know what is there. Bin Laden has been under surveillance for years: every telephone call was monitored and al-Qaeda has been penetrated by US intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, Saudi intelligence, Egyptian intelligence. They could not have kept secret an operation that required such a degree of organisation and sophistication. - Gore Vidal (born: 1925-10-03 died: 2012-07-30 at age: 86), The Enemy Within, 2002-10

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[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the al Qaeda September [attack] on the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the 9/11 attack, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe… now know well that the disastrous attack had been planned and realised by the American CIA and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world, in order to frame the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part… in [invading] Iraq [and] Afghanistan. - Francesco Cossiga (born: 1928-07-26 age: 84), former president of Italy, 2007-12-06, original in Italian, Corriere della Sala newspaper

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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison (born: 1751-03-16 died: 1836-06-28 at age: 85), while a United States Congressman

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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin' away. - Elvis Presley (born: 1935-01-08 died: 1977-08-16 at age: 42)

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Goebbels [...] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. -Edward Bernays (1965)

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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. - Hermann Göering (born: 1893-01-02 died: 1946-10-15 at age: 53), President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

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The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. - Joseph Goebbels (born: 1897-10-29 died: 1945-05-01 at age: 47), German Minister of Propaganda, 1933— 1945

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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one. - Adolf Hitler (born: 1889-04-20 died: 1945-04-30 at age: 56)

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"If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult" - Heraclitus

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

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"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." - Simon Heffer

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"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." -- Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491

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"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being" - Thomas Jefferson

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"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

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Politicians are in bed with corporate crooks. They don't give a damn about life, liberty, equity, justice, and human need. Policies they support show it. Growing inequality is institutionalized. America's heading for oblivion. People needs are ignored. Depression conditions threaten to become catastrophic. Policymakers able to act don't notice or care. Self-interest defines them. They infest Washington like a metastasizing cancer." - Stephen Lendman

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"When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution" - Ivana Gabara

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"When the people liberate their own minds and take a hard clear look at what the 1% is doing and what the 99% should be doing, then serious stuff begins to happen." - Michael Parenti

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"The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth." - Chris Hedges

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"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels

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To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun? - Fortune Cookie Wisdom

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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable..." - H.L. Mencken

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"I'll tell you what they don't want-they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interest." - George Carlin

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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa

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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down" - Frederick Douglass

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"Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and.. the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer." - H. L. Menchen

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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" - Thomas Paine

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We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

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Live for today and be sensible about the future, you might find yourself less stressed. - unknown

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If I am to succeed, the sooner I know it, the less uneasiness I shall have to go through. If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. - Thomas Jefferson

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law. - Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. John A. Morrison

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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest". -Edward Bernays (03/1947)

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"We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable.

Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly." -John Pilger 04/11/2009)

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"It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck, Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions...

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"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage". -Chuck Palahniuk

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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security". -  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, its genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions & destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from. - Thomas Jefferson

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"When people decry civilian deaths caused by the U.S government, they're aiding propaganda efforts. In sharp contrast, when civilian deaths are caused by bombers who hate America, the perpetrators are evil and those deaths are tragedies. When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror".   - Norman Solomon

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.- Thomas Jefferson

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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. - B F Skinner

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.- Thomas Jefferson

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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. - Thomas Jefferson

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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. - Thomas Jefferson

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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves". -Howard Zinn (1991

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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. - Thomas Jefferson

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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. - Thomas Jefferson

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God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. - Thomas Jefferson

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"If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything". -Howard Zinn(08/11/2008)

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe. - Thomas Jefferson

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You say that I have been dished up to you as an antifederalist, and ask me if it be just. My opinion was never worthy enough of notice to merit citing; but since you ask it I will tell it you. I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore I protest to you I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much farther from that than of the Antifederalists. - Thomas Jefferson

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"Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime". Cardinal Richelieu

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"A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun". Don Henley (1989)

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"He who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal". Bertolt Brecht

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We think in America that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government as far as they are capable of exercising it; and that this is the only way to ensure a long-continued and honest administration of it's powers. 1. They are not qualified to exercise themselves the EXECUTIVE department: but they are qualified to name the person who shall exercise it. With us therefore they chuse this officer every 4. years. 2. They are not qualified to LEGISLATE. With us therefore they only chuse the legislators. 3. They are not qualified to JUDGE questions of law; but they are very capable of judging questions of fact. In the form of JURIES therefore they determine all matters of fact, leaving to the permanent judges to decide the law resulting from those facts. Butwe all know that permanent judges acquire an esprit de corps; that, being known, they are liable to be tempted by bribery; that they are misled by favor, by relationship, by a spirit of party, by a devotion to the executive or legislative; that it is better to leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile than to that of a judge biased to one side; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right than cross and pile does. It is left therefore, to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. Thomas Paine

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The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body. This sense is submitted, indeed, in some degree, to the guidance of reason; but it is a small stock which is required for this: even a less one than what we call common sense. State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. - Thomas Jefferson

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"He who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal". Bertolt Brecht

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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food. - Thomas Jefferson

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I observe an idea of establishing a branch bank of the United States in New Orleans. This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. The nation is at this time so strong and united in its sentiments that it cannot be shaken at this moment. But suppose a series of untoward events should occur sufficient to bring into doubt the competency of a republican government to meet a crisis of great danger, or to unhinge the confidence of the people in the public functionaries; an institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the union, acting by command and in phalanx may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this Bank of the United States, with al its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile? - Thomas Jefferson

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"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists". Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. - Thomas Jefferson

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"Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it; I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of demons should I make a whore of my soul". Thomas Paine

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To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. - Thomas Jefferson

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"Movements are like this. They are grassroots, often underground, and they start with crazy people who are willing to believe in the impossible. Movements never start in corporate offices with executives drawing up a master plan...if we truly want to see the world changed, we must begin as a band of madmen, welcoming other crazy people who want to be a part of something bigger than themselves." Neil Cole

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The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. - Thomas Jefferson

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. - Benjamin Franklin

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"When lies abound, telling the truth is an act of revolution". - Jonathan Van Voorhees (01/09/2009)

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I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. - Thomas Jefferson

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[In fascist regimes] "The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc." - Dr. Lawrence Britt

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Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson

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"When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything." Cindy Sheehan

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" It's about telling the truth, allowing suffering to speak and being honest and candid about those in power" - Cornel West

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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. - Thomas Jefferson

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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

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"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know." - G.I. Gurdjieff

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About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. - Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (4 March 1801)

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"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it. Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." - T. S. Eliot

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That we are overdone with banking institutions which have banished the precious metals and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium, that these have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness, that the wars of the world have swollen our commerce beyond the wholesome limits of exchanging our own productions for our own wants, and that, for the emolument of a small proportion of our society who prefer these demoralizing pursuits to labors useful to the whole, the peace of the whole is endangered and all our present difficulties produced, are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied. - Thomas Jefferson

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"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong". - Richard Armour

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"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other". - Oscar Ameringer

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Not in our day, but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble. But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson

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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. - Thomas Jefferson

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. - Benjamin Franklin

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. - Benjamin Franklin

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson