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{CASE} 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177, late 2d, Sec 256 (?): "The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it."
{CASE} 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177, late 2d, Sec 256: "No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it."
{CASE} Amos vs. Mosley, 74 Fla. 555; 77 So. 619: "If the legislature clearly misinterprets a constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right."
{CASE} Bowers vs. DeVito, 686 F.2d 616, at 618 (7th Cir. 1982): "There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen."
{CASE} Brandes vs. Mitteriling, 196 P.2d 464, 467, 657 Ariz 349: "Sovereignty means supremacy in respect of power, domination, or rank; supreme dominion, authority or rule."
{CASE} Chisholm vs. State of Georgia (US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @DALL 1793 pp. 471-472: "...at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty."
{CASE} Chisholm vs. State of Georgia, Ga., 2. U.S. (2 Dall.) 419, 471, 1 L. Ed. 440: ""Sovereignty" is the right to govern. In Europe the sovereignty is generally ascribed to the prince; here it rests with the people. There the sovereign actually administers the government; here, never in a single instance. Our governors are the agents of the people, and at most stand in the same relation to their sovereign in which regents in Europe stand to their sovereign. Their princes have personal powers, dignities, and pre-eminences. Our rulers have none but official, nor do they partake in the sovereignty otherwise, or in any other capacity than as private citizens."
{CASE} City of Bisbee vs. Cochise County, 78 P.2d 982, 986, 52 Ariz. 1: ""Government" is not "sovereignty." "Government" is the machinery or expedient for expressing the will of the sovereign power."
{CASE} Filbin Corporation vs. United States, D.C.S.C., 266 F. 911, 914: "The "sovereignty" of the United States consists of the powers existing in the people as a whole and the persons to whom they have delegated it, and not as a separate personal entity, and as such it does not possess the personal privileges of the sovereign of England; and the government, being restrained by a written Constitution, cannot take property without compensation, as can the English government by act of king, lords, and Parliament."
{CASE} Hale vs. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43, 279: "If, whenever an officer or employee of a corporation were summoned before a grand jury as a witness he could refuse to produce the books and documents of such corporation, upon the ground that they would incriminate the corporation itself, it would result in the failure of a large number of cases where the illegal combination was determinable only upon the examination of such papers. Conceding that the witness was an officer of the corporation under investigation, and that he was entitled to assert the rights of the corporation with respect to the production of its books and papers, we are of the opinion that there is a clear distinction in this particular between an individual and a corporation, and that the latter has no right to refuse to submit its books and papers for an examination at the suit of the state. The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the state or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to incriminate him. He owes no such duty to the state, since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life and property. His rights are such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of the state, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself, and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public as long as he does not trespass upon their rights." /-P-/ "Upon the other hand, the corporation is a creature of the state. It is presumed to be incorporated for the benefit of the public. It receives certain special privileges and franchises, and holds them subject to the laws of the state and the limitations of its charter. Its powers are limited by law. It can make no contract not authorized by its charter. Its rights to act as a corporation are only preserved to it so long as it obeys the laws of its creation. There is a reserved right in the legislature to investigate its contracts and find out whether it has exceeded its powers..."
{CASE} Kingsley vs. Merril, 122 Wis. 185; 99 NW 1044: "A long and uniform sanction by law revisers and lawmakers, of a legislative assertion and exercise of power, is entitled to a great weight in construing an ambiguous or doubtful provision, but is entitled to no weight if the statute in question is in conflict with the plain meaning of the constitutional provision."
{CASE} Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (@ Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803): "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
{CASE} Miranda vs. Arizona, 384 US 436 p. 491: "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them."
{CASE} Norton vs. Shelby County, 118 US 425 p.442: "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed."
{CASE} Riley vs. Carter, 165 Okal. 262; 25 P. 2d 666; 79 ALR 1018: "Economic necessity cannot justify a disregard of cardinal constitutional guarantee."
{CASE} Robin vs. Hardaway, 1 Jefferson 109, (Va., 1772): "All acts of the legislature apparently contrary to natural rights and justice are, in our law and must be in the nature of things, considered void ... We are in conscience bound to disobey."
{CASE} Scott vs. Sandford, Mo., 60 US 393, 404, 19 How. 393, 404, 15 L.Ed. 691: "The words "sovereign people" are those who form the sovereign, and who hold the power and conduct the government through their representatives. Every citizen is one of these people and a constituent member of this sovereignty."
{CASE} Slote vs. Board of Examiners, 274 N.Y. 367; 9 NE 2d 12; 112 ALR 660: "Disobedience or evasion of a constitutional mandate may not be tolerated, even though such disobedience may, at least temporarily, promote in some respects the best interests of the public."
{CASE} State vs. Sutton, 63 Minn. 147, 65 NW 262, 30 L.R.A. 630 Am. St. 459: "When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the Constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it." (See 16 Am. Jur. 2d 177, 178)
{CASE} US vs. Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139 (1972): "The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge ..."
{CASE} US vs. Miller (supreme Court): "The signification attributed to the term Militia appear from the debates in the Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators [Justice Story's commentary is cited later]. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense... And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of a kind in common use at the time."
{CASE} US vs. Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006: "If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence ... and the courts must abide by that decision."
{CASE} Warren vs. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App.181): "... a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen..."
{CASE} Wills vs. Michigan Dept. of State Police, 105 L.Ed. 2nd 45 (1989): "States and state officials acting officially are held not to be "persons" subject to liability under 42 USCS section 1983."
{CASE} Yick Wo vs. Hopkins, Sheriff, 118 U.S. 356.: "Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to the law, for it is the author and source of law, but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts." - "For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself."
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
-President James Madison, a Mainstream Revolutionary from "Notes on Virgin1a"
"My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children." Hosea 4:6
"If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed..."
-George Washington's farewell address 1796
"Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed from the legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."
-Abraham Lincoln
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato
Quotes From the Worst leaders in the World ....
From: http://www.jbs.org/vo13no12.htm#Times
Times Change, But Collectivist Message Remains Constant
We must organize all labor, no matter how dirty and arduous it may be, so that every [citizen] may regard himself as part of that great army of free labor.... The generation that is now fifteen years old must arrange all their tasks of education in such a way that every day, and in every city, the young people shall engage in the practical solution of the problems of common labor, even of the smallest, most simple kind.
- Vladimir Lenin
Imagine an army of 100,000 young people restoring urban and rural communities and giving their labor in exchange for education and training.... [National Service] will harness the energy of our youth and attack the problems of our time. It literally has the potential to revolutionize the way young people all across America look at their country and feel about themselves.
- Bill Clinton
[T]here is the great silent, continuous struggle; the struggle between the State and the individual; between the State which demands and the Individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or a hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.
- Benito Mussolini
I'm here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America.... [I]f you're asked in school, "What does it mean to be a good citizen?" I want the answer to be, "Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you've got to go to work or be in school, you've got to pay your taxes and - oh, yes, you have to serve...."
- Bill Clinton
All the people I know who are driving for a form of national service, primarily want it to be compulsory. They realize that's a terrible problem politically, so they're not willing to say it. It is endangerment of freedom and the potential for indoctrination that skeptics do not like in the national service concept. However benign the program, some think it will not succeed on any meaningful scale unless it is compulsory.
- Martin Anderson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Boston Globe, November 29, 1992
In his April 5 radio address outlining the goals of the summit, the President endorsed compulsory volunteerism - and even called for extending it to middle schools. In other words, the man who so famously avoided the dangerous duty of fighting in Vietnam as a young man now proposes drafting a new generation of young people to perform a different set of difficult tasks.
- New York Post editorial, April 27, 1997
Fascism finds it necessary, at the outset, to take away from the ordinary human being what he has been taught and has grown to cherish the most: personal liberty. And it can be affirmed, without falling into exaggeration, that a curtailment of personal liberty not only has proved to be, but necessarily must be, a fundamental condition of the triumph of Fascism.
- Mario Palmieri The Philosophy of Fascism (1936)
Before they have their own families, the young can make a unique contribution to the family of America. In doing so, they can acquire the habit of service, and get a deeper understanding of what it really means to be a citizen. That is the main reason, perhaps, why we are here.
- Bill Clinton
We're here for the first President's Summit for America's Future - to mobilize every community and challenge every citizen and to ask our young people to become citizen-servants, too.
- Bill Clinton
According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, with this need of raising the State to its rightful position.
- Mario Palmieri
When an opponent says, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
- Adolf Hitler
"The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they...have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized before. And the most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed."
-- F. A. Hayek
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -- ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state."
--Heinrich Himmler.
"Gun registration is not enough." Attorney General Janet Reno, December 10,1993 (Associated Press)
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
--Janet Reno
"A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." Alexander Pope
"If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all." - Dr. Walter Williams , George Mason University Economics Dept.
"If you understood what Communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday become Communist." - Jane Fonda, in a speech to Duke University students in 1970
"... all Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Ari Fleischer, official White House spokesperson
"...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone." - Arnold Beichmen, Hoover Institute Fellow
"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, and mean your mother." --Anonymous
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." - Richard Henry Lee
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey
"After all, if the government can't keep drugs away from prisoners who are locked in steel cages 24 hours a day, surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, drug-tested, strip-searched, X-rayed and videotaped -- how can it possibly stop the flow of drugs to 260 million other Americans?" - Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party chairman
"All children are essentially criminal." -- Denis Diderot
"All generalizations are false. Including this one." - Mark Twain
"And it's even more unfortunate that some people would attempt the impossible task of childproofing the world, rather than worldproofing their child." - letter to the editor, New Orleans newspaper
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." - Henry David Thoreau
"Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave." -- Andrew Fletcher (1698)
"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold." -Shakespeare
"Bill Clinton has kept the promises he meant to keep." - Clinton adviser George Stephanopolous (CNN's Larry King Live, 2/15/96)
"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent." -- John Dewey 1899, Our "father" of education
"Civility costs nothing and buys everything." --Lady M. W. Montague
"Courage is the complement of fear." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everyone else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and as aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them" -- Orson Welles
"Everything in excess. Moderation is for monks!" - Robert A. Heinlein
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
"Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787
"If it only takes one or two records from a bookstore to help us eliminate drugs on the street, then so be it," said Lt. Lori Moriarty, commander of the North Metro Drug Task Force, which is seeking the Tattered Cover records
"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." - Thomas Jefferson
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." - Thomas Jefferson
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." - Mark Twain
"It is both possible and moral, to love one's country and hate its government." - Dr. Walter Williams , George Mason University Economics Dept
"Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country." -- George W. Bush (January 28, 2003)
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland." -- Adolf Hitler, proposing the creation of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W. Bush (CNN on December 18, 2000)
"We will protect limited government and individual freedom in ways you can't even imagine." -- Gov. Jeb Bush (Victory Speech -- Nov. 5, 2002)
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." -- President Bill Clinton (August 12, 1993)
"At every point society acts to keep you from doing what you have to do." -- John Cage, 1973
"A great deal may be learned about society by studying man ... nothing can be learned about man by studying society." -- Ayn Rand
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and wraps himself in the Constitution to someone who burns the Constitution and wraps himself in the flag." -- Source Unknown
"Marijuana is not known to be very harmful. I mean, it's generally assumed it's not good for you, but coffee isn't good for you, tea isn't good for you, chocolate cake isn't good for you either. It would be crazy to criminalize coffee, even though it's harmful." -– Noam Chomsky
"A drug is neither moral nor immoral ... it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole." -– Frank Zappa
"The nazis said they had a Jewish problem. We say we have a drug abuse problem. Actually, 'Jewish problem' was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; 'drug abuse problem' is the name we give to our persecution of people who use certain drugs." -- Thomas Szasz, M.D.
"You're brought up learning that drugs make you crazy, then you do marijuana for the first time, and it's not so bad. It's kind of cool. That's when kids find out it's been a lie." –- Governor Gary Johnson (R-NM)
"If we're living in a free country, we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?" -- Woody Harrelson
"I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body." -- Thomas Szasz
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." -- Albert Einstein
EDUCATION
"If you take a look at the history of 'freedom', you notice that the most frightening thing about people who are not free is that they learn to take their bondage for granted, and to believe that this bondage is 'normal' and natural. Right now, a lot of you are helping history to repeat itself; you don't believe you should be free. Of course you want to be free -- in various ways, not just free of school. However, society gives you so many condescending, false and harmful messages about yourselves that most of you wouldn't trust yourselves with freedom. It's all complicated by the fact that the people who infringe most dangerously and inescapably on your freedom are those who say they are helping you, those who are convinced you need their help: teachers, school counselors, perhaps your parents." -- Grace Llewellyn
"[Schooling] rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought." -- Ludwig von Mises
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. -- Thomas Szasz, M.D.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"School initiates young people into a world where everything can be measured, including their imaginations, and, indeed, man himself. But personal growth is not a measurable entity. It is growth in disciplined dissidence, which cannot be measured against any rod, or any curriculum not compared to someone else's achievement. In such learning one can emulate others only in imaginative endeavor, and follow in their footsteps rather than mimic their gait. The learning I prize is immeasurable re-creation." -- Ivan Illich
"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." -- Agatha Christie
"State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly alike one another; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." -- John Stuart Mill
"Let's take a cooks tour of big government at its finest. The government says to us, 'Consider the burden of educating your children. How would you choose teachers and select textbooks, how would you know where to build schools and how many students to have per classroom? Turn your children over to us, and we will unburden you. We will turn your children into functional illiterates'. And with that dirty little Judas bargain, we gave away our children." -- Michael Cloud
"Education and learning are the most worthwhile pursuits there are, but they are eclipsed in high school by an emphasis on conformity and blind obedience. -- Jessie Grogan
"One of the reasons public schools don't educate our children is that teachers spend so much time with discipline problems that they have little time left to teach." -- Dwight Filley
"Education -- compulsory schooling, compulsory learning -- is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit. Let all those escape it who can, any way they can." -- John Holt
"If institutionalized learning was a choice, then the concept of 'childhood' would go out of production." -– Ivan Illich
"Public educators, like Soviet farmers, lack any incentive to produce results, innovate, to be efficient, to make the kinds of difficult changes that private firms operating in a competitive market must make to survive." -- Carolyn Lochhead
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation." -- William Hazlitt
"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging conceptions and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorship in a nutshell." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." -- Rudolph Giuliani
"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it." -- Mikhail Bakunin
"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country. " -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, 1997
"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words." -- The Atlanta Journal
"You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them." -- William L. Comer
"Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence." -- Robert Anton Wilson
"Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities." -- Michael Cloud
"The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk'." -- Harry Browne
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." -- Ronald Reagan
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures that have neither the right nor wisdom, nor virtue ... To be governed means that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted, registered, entered in a census, taxed, stamped, authorized, recommended, admonished, prevented, reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subject to tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the name of the public utility and the general good. Then at first sign of resistance or word of complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled, beaten up, garroted, imprisoned, shot, machine gunned, judged, sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to cap it all, ridiculed, mocked, outraged, and dishonored. That is Government. That is it's justice and morality!" –- Pierre-Joseph Prou
dhon
"Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program." -– Milton Friedman
A " nationial emergency " is now a practical necessity in order to carry out what has become the regular and normal method of governmental action. What were intended by Congress as delegations of power to be used only in the most extreme situations and for the most limited duration's have become everyday powers; and a state of "emergency " has become a permanent condition. - Department of Justice, May 21, 1973
"The 4th Amendment protects the individual's privacy in a variety of settings. In none is the zone of privacy more clearly defined than when bounded by the unambiguous physical dimensions of an individual's home - a zone that finds its roots in clear and specific constitutional terms: the right of the people to be secure in their houses shall not be violated." - John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court. Majority opinion in 6-3 ruling that required police to have a warrant before entering a suspect's home to make an arrest, 15 Apr 1980
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." - Thomas Jefferson
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." - Dresden James
"The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it." -- Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.)
"The less government we have the better - the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
"The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen." - Gov. R. Lucas, former Major General of the Ohio Militia, 1832
"The more impediments to legislation, the better." - Robert A. Heinlein
"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 invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." -- H.L. Mencken
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - 10th Amendment, US Constitution
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - 4th Amendment, US Constitution
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." - Albert Einstein
"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management." - Thomas Jefferson
"This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians." - Hugh Downs Co-host ABC-TV's 20/20 3/31/97
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
"Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are, but because of who you are." --Andrew T. Somers
"When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak." -- Eric Hoffer
You live and learn, or you don't live long." - Robert A. Heinlein
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. - Herbert V. Prochnow
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. -- Tom Wolfe
A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. -- Frank Rizzo
All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. - Albert Camus
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. -Moliere
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -G. H. Hardy
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