freedom quotes .....????

[Scronx]

Today's blacks clearly benefited from slavery. My wealth is far greater and I have far greater liberties than if my ancestors had remained in Africa.


--Walter Williams


http://republicofdixie.com/southernquotes.html

[Scronx]

The Framers had a deathly fear of federal government abuse. They saw State sovereignty as a protection. That's why they gave us the 9th and 10th Amendments. They saw secession as the ultimate protection against Washington tyranny. -- Dr Walter Williams
http://republicofdixie.com/southernquotes.html


"It's not over -- until we win" -- Carl Klang, per Ingrid Rimland


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[Scronx]

Big collection from Irwin Schiff's organization. This great man is in prison for life -- sentenced at age 77 for helping people to reconnect with their rights and full earnings.


Government Truisms


Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose
you were a member of Congress...But then I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.- Winston Churchill


A government which robs Peter to pay
Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.- George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt
to his fellow man...which debt he proposes
to pay off with your money.
- G Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than
two wolves and a sheep voting on what to
have for dinner.- James Bovard,
Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer
of money from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at
Georgetown Univ.


Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)


Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1986)


I don't make jokes. I just watch the government
and report the facts. - Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
- P.J. O'Rourke


In general, the art of government consists
of taking as much money as possible from one
party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire (1764)


Just because you do not take an interest
in politics doesn't mean politics won't take
an interest in you ! - Pericles (430 B.C.)


No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain (1866)


Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.- Unknown


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.- Winston Churchill


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.- Mark Twain


The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress. - Mark Twain


What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)


A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson


"Government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem...if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us
has the capacity to govern someone else?"
~ Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.



In regards to INCOME TAX…..What does the word VOLUNTARY mean to you ???

“Let me point this out now: Your income tax is 100% voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, your same rules just will not apply...”----Sworn testimony by Dwight E. Avis, then head of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the IRS
[Hint: If it was mandatory would they tell you it was voluntary? When have you ever known government to do something voluntarily when they have the power to do so mandatorily and enforced? {like Liquor tax}. Do you want to learn more…for FREE? Read this best seller book by Irwin Schiff (The Federal Mafia) that the government thought so powerful in truth that they banned its sale. http://www.paynoincometax.com/federalmafia.htm.]


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[Scronx]

Now here is one of the absolute best, ripest freedom quotes I've seen -- really and truly! Hope y'all will note, use and freely redeploy it in all directions. I might add it to my collection of slogans or rubber stamps.


But how could a famous poet have said it?They're supposed to be thinking about lofty, artsythings that have no relatiion to the here and now. [img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img]
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Here's freedom to him who would speak;


Here's freedom to him who would write;


For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard;


Save he who the truth would indite!


-- ROBERT BURNS



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[Nelson]

http://fnordspotter.blogspot.com/2005/11/whoops-i-did-it-aga in.html


I believe in free and peaceful trade, in questioning authority at every turn, that the best way to enslave a population is to disarm them, and that these associations we call 'governments' are, at best, gangsters with flags. Too many of us have been imbued with the idea that somehow those in government are nobler, wiser, and more capable than the average person...as well as a somewhat disturbing near-supernatural worship of the States associated with them.



LATER. For what it's (not) worth, Bill Bennett and his laffing partner on his "Morning in America" program says that theselists (which make the rounds continuously by email) are faulty and inaccurate:


the terrible things that happened to the signers of the Constitution


the contrast between now and the 1950s in education (gum chewing was one of the main disciplinary problems etc.)


de Tocqueville's quote "America is great because she is good", etc. (nonexistent)





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[Nelson]

Crushing wisdom in eight words:


"Only fools and corpses don’t change their minds."


http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty276.htm

[Nelson]

"[T]he America once extolled as the voice of liberty heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which Jefferson and Madison designed, but more in the Russian image." —Chief Justice Burger, Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1 (1972)


/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: Yeah, Warren, wonder how it got that way!

[Nelson]

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[Nelson]

"If the North triumphs it is not alone the destruction of our property; it is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent. It is the triumph of commerce, the banks, factories. We should meet the federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides." ~Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson, May 1861

[Colonel_Reb]

Those last two posts of yours are great, Nelson! Oh had the South only heeded those words of Stonewall.

[Nelson]

Glad you like them, Reb! It's great to have you back in the clubhouse.

[Nelson]

A page with interesting comment from The Informer, legendary patriot legal scholar.


"Those who say it cannot be done should not interfere with those of us who are doing it"© - S. Hickman


http://www.atgpress.com/inform/wep029.htm

[Colonel_Reb]

A very enlightening article! So many forgotten truths in today's society.

[Nelson]

To view the entire article, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...ARTICLE_ID=575 45

Monday, September 10, 2007
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The Ron Paul epiphany
By Vox Day
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.


Judging by the sounds of the laughter of the other Republican candidates directed at their rival, Ron Paul has now reached the second of Mohandas K. Ghandi's four stages. It is still unlikely that he will win the nomination of a party which has proven it doesn't deserve him, but it is far less unlikely than it was back when Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain were still considered "electable" by most political observers. The candidates, never a particularly bright lot, may be laughing, but as the neocons and party leaders turn to Fred Thompson in desperation, more intelligent observers are not.........

[Nelson]

A country without a memory is a country of madmen. ---George Santayana

[Nelson3]

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</h3><h3><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Ftargetfreedom.type pad.com%252Ftargetfreedom%252F2009%252F02%252Fgula g-archipelago-excerpt.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Gulag Archipelago Excerpt on resisting tyranny
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<div> http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/tar.../2009/02/gulag -archipelago-excerpt.html</font></font></font></div>


<h1>An excerpt from "The
Gulag Archipelago</span>" ... on how to resist fascism &amp; tyranny. The lesson
that is just as important today as it was half a century ago.

During an
arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should
you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make
your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the
mistake. </span><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would
things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to
make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say
goodbye to his family? </span><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for
example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people
had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the
downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had
nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of
half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and
transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would
have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has
handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice
himself.</span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
<h1>The
Gulag Archipelago (Paperback) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</font>
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</h1><h1> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=UTF8&amp;sell er=A1AVPSERX4QF0E&amp;sn=jperna12 </font>
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Later. </span>

Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine

Life is uncertain - eat dessert first! -- Anon. (RES)

"The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society."&nb sp;&nb sp; --Richard Henry Lee, Antifederalist

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[Michael]

An article entitled "Thomas Jefferson speaks…"

As this 4th of July nears, please take a moment to read these words by Thomas Jefferson, and decide for yourself what this founding father would think about the government which we live under today…


"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." –Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429





"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." –Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125


"When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality." –Thomas Jefferson to M. deStael, 1807. ME 11:282


"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." –Thomas Jefferson: his motto.


"If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence." –Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430


"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548


"As revolutionary instruments (when nothing but revolution will cure the evils of the State) [secret societies] are necessary and indispensable, and the right to use them is inalienable by the people." –Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1803. FE 8:256


"If the appeal to arms is made, it will depend entirely on the disposition of the army whether it issue in liberty or despotism." –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 1788.


"It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end." –Thomas Jefferson to Francois D’Ivernois, 1795. ME 9:300


"Can it be believed that a grateful people will suffer [individuals] to be consigned to execution, whose sole crime has been the developing and asserting their rights" –Thomas Jefferson to William Small, 1775. ME 4:27, Papers 1:166


"In the struggle which was necessary [in France], many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as anybody, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle." –Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793. ME 9:9


"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed." –Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1790. ME 8:13


"Politics, like religion, holds up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error." –Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 1811. ME 13:68


"My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." –Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793. ME 9:10

http://whiterevolution.com/blog.php/?p=1170

[Nelson3]

That is a fantastic collection, Michael -- and mostly news to me. "The oppressed should rebel" -- it can't get any plainer than that!

Reading your annual 7/4 greeting, I idly revisited two pundits I'd previously mentioned on that page. One affords this Jefferson gem:

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.</span></font></font></font>

http://www.chuckmuth.com/

This is most assuredly a freedom quote:


"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."


-Mark Twain</font>

Sadly, my estimation of human nature gets a little worse every day.

.......................Thousands of kids grow up intending to go into "criminal justice" someday because they see thousands of police dramas on TV -- every one of them a PC sermon, alas. Spread this to as many as you may know -- from Reb S.:
<br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">QUOTE from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, from his book, Constitutional Chaos, on page ix . . . ISBN 0-7852-6083-8</span><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">“Because it breaks the law, the government is not your friend.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">“When I arrived on the bench, I had impeccable conservative Republican law-and-order credentials. When I left eight years later, I was a born-again individualist, after witnessing first-hand how the criminal justice system works to subvert and shred the Constitution. You think you’ve got rights that are guaranteed? Well, think again.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">“Because the government breaks the law and denies it, the government is not your friend.” </span>





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[Nelson3]

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance, and </span>the gospel of envy, its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery. </span>
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---- Winston Churchill

[Nelson3]

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. </font>

-- George Orwell

TV Networks 9/11 Fraud</span> 08/10 (2:46)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfKKzZvS8I&amp;NR=1