Full Quote List1"In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster than any other chemical." - Congressional Record 21 July 1976, The chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Dean Burk, when confronted with mountains of data, stated before Congress
2"If you believe the government is doing wrong and you do nothing in response, it may be true that the government is corrupt; but it is certainly true that you are." - Peter E. Hendrickson
3"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, Architect of the American Revolution
4"Truth crushed to earth will rise again." - Bryant
5"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." - James Madison
6"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis Brandeis
7"If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash." - George Washington
8"For the weapons of our warfare are casting down imaginations ... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." - St Paul, 2 Corinthians 10.4,5.
9"Many are those who trade in tricks and simulated miracles, duping the foolish multitude; and if nobody unmasked their subterfuges, they would impose them on everyone." - Leonardo da Vinci, Manuscript F, Institut de France, 5v
10"You say we worship the sun; so do you." - Early Christion Church Father, Tertullian, against pagan detractors (160-220AD)? 'Ad nationes'
11"I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel." - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
12"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." - Luke 14.26
13"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
14"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes." - Thomas Paine
15"If [a provision of the Constitution] will thwart the effectiveness of a system of law enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system."" - United States Supreme Court, Escobedo v. Illinois 378 U.S. 478 (1964)
16"It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin' on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so." - Uncle Remus
17"We must reject...the broad contention submitted in behalf of the government that all receipts-- everything that comes in-- are income..." - United States Supreme Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
18"The construction of a statute by those charged with its execution should be followed unless there are compelling indications that it is wrong, especially when Congress has refused to alter the administrative construction, and such deference is particularly appropriate where an agency's interpretation involves issues of considerable public controversy and Congress has not acted to correct any misperception of its statutory objectives." - United States Supreme Court, CBS, INC. v FCC, 453 US 367 (1981)
19"The Tax Code represents the genius of legal fiction... The IRS has never really known why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages voluntary compliance, through FEAR." - Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS officer in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue Officer Training Program, in his book ?When You Owe The IRS?
20"Reasoning with one who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to a dead man" - Thomas Paine
21"Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
22"When an honest but mistaken man learns of his error, he either [forthrightly] ceases to be mistaken, or ceases to be honest." - Peter E. Hendrickson
23"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein
24" The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. As a result, the Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue as slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them create (your) money and to control credit (and lives). "- Sir Josiah Stamp, Director and President of the Bank of England during the 1920's.
25"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverant, except toward the things which were sacred to other people" - Mark Twain
26"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
27"Give me control of the economics of a country; and I care not who makes her laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its profits or so dependant on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." - Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838
28"They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, speaking for himself, and every decent American since
29"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken
30"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." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
31"Almost 25% of home school students were enrolled one or more grades above their age-level peers in public and private schools. Home school student achievement test scores were exceptionally high. The median scores for every subtest at every grade (typically in the 70th to 80th percentile) were well above those of public and Catholic/Private school students. On average, home school students in grades 1 to 4 petformed one grade level above their age-level public/private school peers on achievement tests. Students who had been home schooled their entire academic life had higher scholastic achievement test scores than students who had also attended other educational programs. There were no meaningful differences in achievement by gender; whether the student was enrolled in a fullservice curriculum, or whether a parent helda state issued teaching certificate." - Rudner, L. M. (1999a). Scholastic achievement and demographic characteristics of home school students in 1998.
32"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him." - Joseph Sobran
33"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth we cannot know it." - Blaise Pascal
34"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 Soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the Same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest Gun Control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington." - Dr. Russ Bianchi
35"As best we understand the government, its first argument runs along the following lines: that health claims lacking "significant scientific agreement" (which is no more than FDA opinion) are inherently misleading because they have such an awesome impact on consumers as to make it virtually impossible for them to exercise any judgment at the point of sale. It would be as if the consumers were asked to buy something while hypnotized, and therefore they are bound to be mislead. We think this contention is almost frivolous. We reject it. The First Amendment directs us to be especially skeptical of regulations that seek to keep people in the dark for what the government perceives to be their own good. The FDA's obvious motive was to protect pharmaceutical interests. If the truth about the power of certain nutrients were allowed, millions would give these items a try, and millions would find relief. Consequently, they would neither need nor desire expensive and far more dangerous prescription drugs. In fact, this is precisely the concern the FDA addressed in its Dietary Supplement Task Force Report, when it stated that "the agency should insure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act as a disincentive for drug development."" - Judge Laurence Silberman of The Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals
36"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison
37"A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate" - Thomas Jefferson
38"This was the gist of the notice. It said 'The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.' This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said 'Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists' instead of 'Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists') they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf." - Douglas Adams in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
39"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Neils Henrik David Bohr (1885 - 1962) Danish physicist
40"What a man sees only in his best moments, as truth is truth in all moments." - Joseph Cook (b. 1838) American lecturer
41"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it." - Thomas Cooper (1759 - 1851)
42"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
43"But we cannot allow government to define government. Furthermore, we will never get less of something by dishing up more of it, yet millions of people have been conditioned to believe that the thing that makes America free is our freedom-protecting government and that, therefore, we need more of it! Ridiculous! Government is not the protector of freedom; it is the antithesis of it." - Ben Graydon
44"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." - George Orwell
45"Ignorance is not not knowin' --
Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so." - Mark Twain
46"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, 1935
47"swaying to the rhythm of a new world order
count bodies like sheep to the rythem of the war drums
the boogeymen are coming
the boogeymen are coming
keep your head down go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums..." - Pet, A Perfect Circle
48"Senator Gramm: "My philosophy on this matter is based on my belief that you don't care as much about my kids as I do."
Bureaucrat, with gentle remonstrative sincerity: "Senator, that's not true!"
Senator Gramm: "Oh? What are their names?"" - Senator Phil Gramm, in a debate about education policy with a Dept. of Education bureaucrat
49"It is as natural for the eye to see as it is for the mind to acquire
knowledge, and any effort in either case is not only useless, but
defeats the end in view. You may force a few facts into a child's
mind by various kinds of compulsion, but you cannot make it learn
anything. The facts remain, if they remain at all, as dead lumber in
the brain. They contribute nothing to the vital processes of
thought; and because they were not acquired naturally and not
assimilated, they destroy the natural impulse of the mind toward
the acquisition of knowledge, and by the time the child leaves
school or college, as the case may be, it not only knows nothing
but is, in the majority of cases, no longer capable of learning." - "The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses", Dr. William Bates
50"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." - Aldous Huxley, 1959
51"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
52"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - David McGowan, http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
53"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
54"[In Hollywood], everyone's a producer or a hit man." - Douglas Clark, convicted Sunset Strip serial killer and the son of a Naval Intelligence operative
55"I don’t know if you guys have ever in your entire life shot anybody, but it’s really fun to do." - Former child actor Carol Bundy, Clark's convicted accomplice, speaking to the police
56"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
57"We shall have world government whether or not you like it -- by conquest or consent." - Council on Foreign Relations member James Paul Warburg, who was the son of Paul Moritz Warburg, a prominent banker (and co-founder of the Federal Reserve), stated before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1950
58"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." - From a report titled "The First Global Revolution" (1991) published by the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome is a small group of international industrialists educators, economists, national and international civil servants. Among them were various Rockefellers, approximately 25 CFR members, Maurice Strong and ... Al Gore
59"The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises — whether real or not — is expected to lead to compliance." - Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, before a UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
60"Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable." - From "UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy" by Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). Julian also served as the vice president of the Eugenics society from 1937 to 1944.sophy"
61"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - President Woodrow Wilson
62"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - President Woodrow Wilson
63"You are a den of vipers and thieves.
I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out." - President Andrew Jackson stated in reference to the bankers at the state of his administration
64"[James Warburg, the son of Paul M. Warburg] holds no office in our Government, but I am told that he is in daily attendance at the Treasury, and that he has private quarters there! In other words, Mr. Chairman, Kuhn, Loeb and Company now has control and occupy the U.S. Treasury." - Congressman Louis T. McFadden, May 23, 1933
65"Senator Danaher: "Of course, you withhold not only from taxpayers but nontaxpayers."
Mr. Hardy: "Yes."
...
Senator Danaher: "I have only one other thought on that point. In the event of withholding from the owner of stock and no taxes due ultimately, where does he get his refund?"
Mr. Friedman: "You're thinking of a corporation or an individual?"
Senator Danaher: "I am talking about an individual."
Mr. Friedman: "An individual will file an income tax return, and that income tax return will constitute an automatic claim for refund."" - Excerpts taken from the transcript of a withholding tax hearing before a subcommittee of the committee on finance, United States Senate, during the 77th Congress, Second Session on data relative to withholding provisions of the 1942 Revenue Act on August 21 and 22, 1942. The excerpts are of exchanges between Connecticut Republican Senator John A. Danaher and testifying witnesses Charles O. Hardy of the Brookings Institution and Milton Friedman of the Treasury Department Division of Tax Research.
66"Liberty once lost, valor also perishes. . . . an enslaved people loses in addition to . . . warlike courage, all signs of enthusiasm, for their hearts are degraded, submissive, and incapable of any great deed. Tyrants are well aware of this, and, in order to degrade their subjects further, encourage them to assume this attitude and make it instinctive." - From "Discours sur la Servitude volontaire, ou Contr'un" by Étienne de la Boétie, 1548
67"Boy: Do not try to bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
" - The Matrix (1999)
68"[Political authority] exists because we believe it exists, have faith in it, and act as if it exists or, for those who would like nothing better than to get their hands on it, because it is a game that must be continued in order to acquire that power to exploit for their own interests and goals. As such, it is not something that Messrs. Bush or Cheney actually possess – we have it. Let’s stop trying to bend the president. Clearly that’s impossible. Instead, only try to recognize the truth: there is no president; it is only yourself. Our desire that someone exercise power over others for our benefit is the source of, and provides the tools for, our own subjugation and exploitation." - From "There Is No President" by Jeff Snyder
69"Luis Posada Carriles is a terrorist, but he's our terrorist" - Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive
70"Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender...
These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War. They financed Trotsky's passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian Empire. They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of American dollars at Trotsky's disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian children flung far and wide from their natural protectors. They have since begun breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of American children." - Congressman Louis T. McFadden, May 23, 1933
71"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win" - Mahatma Ghandi
72"The 'Government' is an abstraction, and its possession of property largely constructive. Actual possession and custody of Government property nearly always are in someone who is not himself the Government but acts in its behalf and for its purposes. He may be an officer, an agent, or a contractor. His personal advantages from the relationship by way of salary, profit, or beneficial personal use of the property may be taxed..." - United States Supreme Court, United States v. County of Allegheny, 322 US 174 (1944)
73"An income tax is neither a property tax nor a tax on occupations of common right, but is an excise tax...The legislature may declare as 'privileged' and tax as such for state revenue, those pursuits not matters of common right, but it has no power to declare as a 'privilege' and tax for revenue purposes, occupations that are of common right." - Simms v. Ahrens, 271 SW 720 (1925)
74"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow." - James Madison
75"In matters of power let no more be heard of the confidence in man, but bind them down from mischief by the chains of the constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
76"The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state." - Ron Paul
77"I'd rather look around me -- compose a better song
`cos that's the honest measure of my worth.
In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me,
as you lick the boots of death born out of fear." - Jethro Tull - Wind-Up
78"Cowardice asks the question: is it safe?
Expediency asks the question: is it political?
Vanity asks the question: is it popular?
But conscience asks the question: is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe,
nor political, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
79"I did it for a textbook house and they sent me a word list. That was due to the Dewey revolt in the twenties, in which they threw out phonics reading and went to a word recognition as if you’re reading a Chinese pictograph instead of blending sounds or different letters. I think killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in the country.
Anyway they had it all worked out that a healthy child at the age of four can only learn so many words in a week. So there were two hundred and twenty-three words to use in this book. I read the list three times and I almost went out of my head. I said, " I’ll read it once more and if I can find two words that rhyme, that’ll be the title of my book." I found "cat" and "hat" and said, the title of my book will be The Cat in the Hat." - Dr. Seuss, 1981
80"Ninety-six and a half percent of the American population is mediocre to illiterate where deciphering print is concerned. This is no commentary on their intelligence, but without ability to take in primary information from print and to interpret it they are at the mercy of commentators who tell them what things mean. A working definition of immaturity might include an excessive need for other people to interpret information for us." - Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey - 1993 analysis of its National Adult Literacy Survey represents 190 million U.S. adults over age sixteen with an average school attendance of 12.4 years
81"Oddly enough, an actual scheme of dissident entrapment was the brainchild of J.P. Morgan, his unique contribution to the Cecil Rhodes–inspired "Round Table" group. Morgan contended that revolution could be subverted permanently by infiltrating the underground and subsidizing it. In this way the thinking of the opposition could be known as it developed and fatally compromised. Corporate, government, and foundation cash grants to subversives might be one way to derail the train of insurrection that Hegelian theory predicted would arise against every ruling class." - John Taylor Gatto
82""The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival." 1984. Part 2, Chapter 9, pg. 192" - George Orwell
83"The thesis I venture to submit to you is as follows: That during the past forty or fifty years those who are responsible for education have progressively removed from the curriculum of studies the Western culture which produced the modern democratic state; That the schools and colleges have, therefore, been sending out into the world men who no longer understand the creative principle of the society in which they must live; That deprived of their cultural tradition, the newly educated Western men no longer possess in the form and substance of their own minds and spirits and ideas, the premises, the rationale, the logic, the method, the values of the deposited wisdom which are the genius of the development of Western civilization; That the prevailing education is destined, if it continues, to destroy Western civilization and is in fact destroying it.
I realize quite well that this thesis constitutes a sweeping indictment of modern education. But I believe the indictment is justified and here is a prima facie case for entering this indictment." - Walter Lippmann, speaking before the Association for the Advancement of Science, December 29, 1940
84"If ye will not give glory unto my name saith the LORD ... I will spread dung upon your faces." - Malachi 2.2,3.
85"They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the Common;
But let the greater criminal loose
Who steals the Common from under the goose" -
86"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of our currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
87"You know, I never realized just how much power Dick Cheney had until my first day on the job. I walked into my office, and you know how the outgoing president always leaves the incoming president a note in his desk?" he asked rhetorically. "I opened my drawer and Dick Cheney had left me Barack Obama’s birth certificate." - Vice President Joe Biden
88"The State is a soulless machine that can never be weaned from the violence to which it owes its very existence." - Mahatma Gandhi
89"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." - Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
90"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington
91"A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." It is a lie! ... But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen. False is everything in it; with stolen teeth it biteth, the biting one. False are even its bowels." - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" Ch. 11. The New Idol
92"The State is a soulless machine that can never be weaned from the violence to which it owes its very existence." - Mahatma Gandhi
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