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| Jon Rappoport | | Under the surface of this global civilization, a great and secret war is taking place. The two opponents hold different conceptions of Reality. On one side, those who claim that humans operate purely on the basis of stimulus-response, like machines; on the other side, those who believe there is a gigantic thing called freedom. Phase One of the war is already over. The stimulus-response people have won. In Phase Two, people are waking up to the far-reaching and devastating consequences of the Pavlovian program. | |
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| Jon Rappoport | | There is an irreducible thing. It's called freedom. It is native to every individual. Sometimes it rears its head in the middle of the night, and the dreamer awakes. And he asks himself: what is my freedom for? And then he begins a voyage that no device can record, measure, or analyze. If he pursues it long enough, it takes him out of the labyrinth. | |
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| Jon Rappoport | | Think about the agendas behind universal vaccination, climate change, universal psychiatric treatment, GMO food, and other 'science-based' frauds. They all imply a false collectivist model, in which individuals give up their power in exchange for 'doing good' and becoming members of the largest group in the world: 'disabled' people with needs that must be addressed and satisfied. Instead of supporting the liberation of the individual, the controllers want to squash it. Why? Because they fear individual power. It is forever the unpredictable wild card. They want a society in which every thought an individual thinks connects him to a greater whole---and if that sounds attractive, understand that this Whole is a fiction, intentionally faked to resemble a genuine oceanic feeling. | |
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| John Rarick | | The Council on Foreign Relations is “the establishment.” Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship. | |
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| Jonathan Rauch | | A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will. | |
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| William Rawle | | The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both. | |
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| John Rawls | | The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. | |
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| Dr. John Joseph Ray | | The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word 'Nazi' is a German abbreviation for 'National Socialist' (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was 'The National Socialist German Workers' Party' (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). | |
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| Dr. John Joseph Ray | | The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. | |
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| Leonard E. Read | | It is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular. A government that does otherwise is licentious, not liberal. | |
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| Leonard E. Read | | What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. | |
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| Leonard E. Read | | What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. | |
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| Thomas Buchanan Read | | Oh, joy to the world! the hour is come,\\
When the nations to freedom awake,\\
When the royalists stand agape and dumb,\\
And monarchs with terror shake!\\
Over the walls of majesty\\
"Upharsin is writ in words of fire,\\
And the eyes of the bondsman, wherever they be\\
Are lit with wild desire.\\
Soon shall the thrones that blot the world,\\
Like the Orleans, into the dust be hurl'd,\\
And the word roll on like a hurricane's breath,\\
Till the farthest slave hears what it saith--\\
Arise, arise, be free! | |
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| William Winwood Reade | | What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? | |
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| Michael Reagan | | It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution...[T]he Republican Party abandoned the trail leading to that shining city on the hill to become itself a quasi-Left-wing organization which looks at the Democrats’ welfare programs and says ‘me too’. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Our coins bear the words 'In God We Trust'. We take the oath of office asking His help in keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a nation under God when we pledge allegiance to the flag. But we can't mention His name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are nondenominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that
our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago.
And by the way, the Constitution does not say
Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms.
The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.' | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. . . . But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. It´s so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn´t have to take a civil service examination. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | An informed patriotism is what we want. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis -- a crisis where the demands of the economic order are colliding directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the free, non-Marxist West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union.... [Communism will be] left on the ash heap of history. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | As we celebrate Thanksgiving ... we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance. Let us recommit ourselves to that devotion to God and family that has played such an important role in making this a great Nation, and which will be needed as a source of strength if we are to remain a great people. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.' | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | I think the best possible social program is a job. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools -- so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime -- 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | For too long, the world was paralyzed by the argument that terrorism could not be stopped until the grievances of terrorists were addressed. The complicated and heartrending issues that perplex mankind are no excuse for violent, inhumane attacks, nor do they excuse not taking aggressive action against those who deliberately slaughter innocent people. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. | |
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| Ronald Reagan | | History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. | |