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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. - Donald James (1931-2008)
“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1778)
“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race” – Calvin Coolidge
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” ~Calvin Coolidge
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
“In my many years I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.” – John Adams
“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” ~ William F. Buckley, Jr. – more of his quotes
” no fact or law shall be tried in court “
“Our founding fathers intended to keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.” – George Gordon
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. … Abraham Lincoln
”A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” ~ George Washington
Achievement is vital for existence!
Never quit , is not good enough; We must Succeed!
Only then can we help others to succeed also. And that is the only kind of socialism that works.
Sadly many will always choose not to put forth the the effort, control their emotions through the upsets, learn from others how to get over the obstacles and develop the character to lead others or be persistent enough to achieve.
Achievement is what true servants do out of love for others and responsibility for their fellow humans who will not be responsible. ~ Don P
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820
Ronald ReaganWisdom
“Socialism only works in two places:
Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose.’
‘The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’
‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
‘I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses
had run them through the U.S. Congress..
‘The taxpayer:
That’s someone who works for the federal government
but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.’
‘Government is like a baby:
An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other’
‘The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a
government program.’
‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first’
‘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’
‘Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards;
if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.’
‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’- Ronald Reagan
“We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.”
~ James Warburg (Member of the Council on Foreign Relations)
” Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who writes her laws”
-Meyer Amschel Rothschlild
“The common enemy of humanity is man. 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, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
~ The Club of Rome (Globalist think tank)
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
~ George Orwell
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski (Obama’s Foreign Policy Advisor)
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
~ Ted Turner (Founder of CNN, United Nations Foundation Chairman)
“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”
~ Henry Kissinger (Former Secretary of State & NSA, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient)
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas Jefferson
Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. Thomas Jefferson
Quotes of Wise People on Daily Living
History of Thomas Jefferson:
At 5, began studying under his cousins tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British
America” and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
At 33, took three years to revise Virginias legal code and wrote a Public
Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties
with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American
Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of
Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello.
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as
its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of
Independence along with John Adams
Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied all the previous failed
attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, His
laws and the nature of man.
