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"It is futile to fight
against, if one does not know what one is fighting for." -- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982), from Capitalism: The
Unknown Ideal. "Arbitrary power is most
easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness."
-- George Washington (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President,
'Father of the Country' 1796.
"Force without wisdom
falls of its own weight." -- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65-8BC)
Greek poet, Odes.
"Cannabis is safer than
alcohol or cigarettes and MUST be legal for adults." - Unknown
"Drug abuse is bad but the drug war is
worse." - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: http://leap.cc What would Jesus
do? Teach Peace!
"Hitting out of anger is
assault. Children have a right to be free from assault." Control yourself: http://www.angermgmt.com
"Conservative driving
saves gas. Be a TRUE patriot and help America become independent from foreign oil. 55 is
still faster than a horse!"
"Abortion stops a beating
heart. Exercise your right to choose to wait to mate until you want a baby. And rapists
should be castrated."
"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and
fear -- unruly men, disturbers
of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons'
-- in a word, free men." --
Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)
"With respect to the words
general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail
of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited
sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character
which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
-- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA,
4th US President
"The loyalists in the
beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting,
in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not
constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every
possible power to promote their own happiness." -- Pennsylvania Gazette
April 23, 1788.
"We are reluctant to
admit that we owe our liberties to
men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and
denounce what Whitman called
'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men." -- Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)
"With respect to the words
general welfare, I have always
regarded them as qualified by
the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited
sense would be a metamorphosis
of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not
contemplated by its creators." --
James Madison (1751-1836),
Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
"The loyalists in the
beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in
defense of our liberties, because
these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every
possible power to promote their
own happiness." -- Pennsylvania Gazette April 23, 1788
"If large numbers of
people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the
law forbids it. But if public
opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to
protect them."-- George Orwell
"[A] function of free
speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve it's high
purpose when it indices a condition
of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with things as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often
provocative and challenging. It may
strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for understanding." -- Justice Potter Stewart (1915-1985), U.
S. Supreme Court Justice
"I have always strenuously
supported the right of every
man to his own opinion, however
different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of
changing it." -- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
"Propaganda is persuading
people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from
them." -- Harold Evans
"There is no subjugation
so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that
way one captures volition itself." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Political philosopher, educationist and essayist
"Liberty requires
restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so
that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by
the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less
equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's
power." -- William Kornhauser (1925-2004) Professor
A Taoist story tells of an
old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high
and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously,
he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls.
People asked him how he managed to survive. "I accommodated myself to
the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to
be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl.
This is how I survived." Man
at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard.
Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and
hardness accompany death.
