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Shall Not Perish
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
And my favorites from Mr. Thomas Jefferson:
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the mind of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I cannot live without books.
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.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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C. S. Lewis
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
General Douglas MacArthur
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
President James Madison
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Federalist Papers 47
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
And my favorites from Mr. Thomas Jefferson:
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the mind of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I cannot live without books.
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.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
_____END
C. S. Lewis
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
General Douglas MacArthur
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
President James Madison
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Federalist Papers 47
Just recently...
"Question 1) You are approached by a frenzied vault scientist, who yells, "I'm going to put my quantam harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!" What's your response?
A. "But Doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?"
B. "Yeah? Up yours too, buddy!"
C. Say nothing, but grabe a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head to knock him out. For all you knew, he was planning on blowing up the vault.
D. Say nothing, but slip away before the scientist can continue his rant."
From the G.O.A.T. in Fallout 3...which I highly recommend.
"Question 1) You are approached by a frenzied vault scientist, who yells, "I'm going to put my quantam harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!" What's your response?
A. "But Doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?"
B. "Yeah? Up yours too, buddy!"
C. Say nothing, but grabe a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head to knock him out. For all you knew, he was planning on blowing up the vault.
D. Say nothing, but slip away before the scientist can continue his rant."
From the G.O.A.T. in Fallout 3...which I highly recommend.
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"If I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country. I will not participate in your charade - my conscience will not allow me to be a part of your crusade" -Malachi Rischter
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Thats wrong. Its fool me once, shame on you;fool me twice, shame on me, and it is by Confucius.
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He's quoting President Bush's misquote of that.
