“Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?”

~George Washington~

Farewell Address [September 17, 1796]

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”

~Noah Webster~

“An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution” [1787]

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

~ William Casey~

Former CIA director, at his first staff meeting - 1981

“The truth is that the state must hide not only its wars but all of its activities. It hides its inflation. It hides the effects of its taxation and its protectionism. It fears anyone who draws the cause-and-effect connection between its activities and their deleterious consequences for the rest of us. It is the most destructive force in our world. Because that truth is so momentous, the state does everything possible to hide the smallest drop of blood.”

~Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., “The Seen, the Unseen, and the Hidden
Costs of Statism” [July 28, 2008]

“Nothing alarms me more than the thought of an irrational person in the White House. I'm OK with stupid. I can live with venal. I can tolerate a womanizer, even a drunk, but a crazy person in command of our nuclear forces gives me the heebie-jeebies. Somebody who can't tell the difference between a nuclear-free Iran with no ICBMs and Russia with thousands of nuclear warheads sitting atop advanced intercontinental missiles has no business being allowed in the White House, even as a tourist.”

~Charley Reese~ Syndicated Columnist & Political Commentator

“Americans should remember that if it's a messiah or salvation they seek, neither is to be found in politics or in government.”

~Charley Reese~ Syndicated Columnist & Political Commentator

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."

~Mahatma Gandhi~

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

~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~

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

~Marcus Aurelius~

“History is lies agreed upon.”

~Napoleon I~

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”

~Samuel Butler~

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”

~George Orwell~

“All democracies turn into dictatorships, but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it is Julius Caesar, Napoleon, or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.”

~George Lucas~ Film Maker: Dark Victory -April 23, 2002, 12:40:03

“Modern nationalism and collectivism have, by the restriction of migration, perhaps come nearest to the “servile state.” …Man can hardly be reduced more to a mere wheel in the clockwork of the national collectivist state that being deprived of his freedom to move.... Feeling that he belongs now to his nation, body and soul, he will be more easily subdued to the obedient state serf which nationalist and collectivist governments demand.”

~Wilhelm Röpke~ Economist

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

~ James Madison~ 1798

“Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling places in which their ancestors lived for centuries. Nobody can foretell what will happen in the next chapter of this endless struggle. This has little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. It is probable that scientists will discover some methods of defense against the atomic bomb. But this will not alter things, it will merely prolong for a short time the process of the complete destruction of civilization.”

~Ludwig von Mises~ Human Action

"Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and tendencies that were hidden. In times of peace, the sense of the State flags in a republic that is not militarized. For war is essentially the health of the State."

~ Randolph Bourne~ 1919

"Is it not just possible that we may become corrupted at home by the reaction of arbitrary political maxims in the East upon our domestic politics, just as Greece and Rome were demoralised by their contact with Asia?"

~ Richard Cobden~ 1850

'When fascism comes to this country [America], it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

~Sinclair Lewis~

“Washington, D.C. is a place where delusions go to thrive.”

~Steve Chapman~ Columnist and editorial writer - The Chicago Tribune

"Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is ‘specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters."

~George MacDonald Fraser~ Author: "Flashman and the Redskins" (1982)

“It's important to understand that the cause of terrorism is political, and therefore there is no military solution. If killing terrorists were the solution, the Israelis wouldn't be enclosing themselves inside a wall and carrying guns all the time. Unless you solve the political problems that cause terrorism, you will never eliminate it.”

~Charley Reese~ Syndicated Columnist & Political Commentator

“The concept of nonintervention in foreign policy was never difficult for me to reach, although over the years it has grown on me to the point where I am convinced it is the key, most important issue that we have to deal with right now in a political sense.”

~Rep Ron Paul, M.D./OBGYN~ From his speech delivered at The Future of Freedom Foundation's 2007 conference "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties”

“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”

~William Ramsey Clark~

"I worship Christ who was the prince of peace, not pre-emptive war. A superpower like the United States should use all of its resources ... to promote peace.”

~Jimmy Carter~

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

~General Douglas MacArthur~

“If you take the profit out of war...there is no war. Today’s cowardly patriotism resides only within the perimeter of profit – and safety. If you require those calling loudest for war to fire the first shot, the guns remain silent.”

~Dr. James N. Herndon~

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

~Alexis de Tocqueville~

“A hated government does not long survive.”

~Seneca~

"My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union." 

~Abraham Lincoln~ August 22, 1862, Lincoln explained the purpose of the war in a letter to newspaper editor Horace Greeley

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. "

~Harold Pinter~ British Nobel Laureate, Playwright, Author

“After all, it is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.”
 

~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne~

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

~H. L. Mencken~

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”

~H. L. Mencken~

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”

~Sir Peter Ustinov~

The enormous gap between what US leaders do...and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments...”

~Michael Parenti~

"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't want us to know."

~Gore Vidal~

“All government bureaucracies, if allowed to fester, metastasize like a malignant cancer