Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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I personally believe it's every citizen's civil duty to pay attention to what their government does, to question their government and hold these people's feet to the fire. If you don't do that, you will get bad government.
Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura
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It was the right thing to do. We seek justice in every case.
U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni about dismissal of human trafficking case against Mike & Alec Sou
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Congress can impose liabilities on you, your children, and grandchildren without your consent, and even without your knowledge. This is another example of government holding itself above the law.
Ron Paul, candidate for U.S. President, 2012
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A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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The way Amerikan justice (sic) works is that prosecutors in about 96% of the cases get a plea bargain. US prosecutors . . . put sufficient pressure on innocent defendants to coerce them into making a guilty plea in exchange for lesser charges and a lighter sentence. . . . Amerikan criminal justice (sic) is organized to produce conviction regardless of innocence or guilt.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.
Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant, historian, on why Rome fell
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others
Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock by an Athenian court
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I am the governor. I'm not your pal.
Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, in a soundbite that has reverberated around the state.
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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan Click for audio
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In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.
Anonymous
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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.
Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)
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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.
Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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He who fears criticism is hopeless. Only those who do things are criticized. To hesitate for fear of criticism is cowardly. If our cause is right be not afraid of criticism, advocate it, expound it, and, if need be, fight for it. Critics always have been and always will be, but to the strong minded they are a help rather than a hindrance. Take your part in life’s stage and play your part to the end.
Thomas Jefferson
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I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal [sic] Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger [All three are retired from government service, but are Council on Foreign Relations members]
James L. Jones, U.S. National Security Advisor, Feb 18, 2009
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. . . it’s good to have an [new] outpost of the Council [on Foreign Relations] right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations, July 15, 2009
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
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The right wing goes on endlessly about Social Security and Medicare as if they were welfare giveaways to shiftless people who refuse to look after themselves, whereas in actual fact citizens are vastly overcharged for the meager benefits with a 15 percent tax on their wages and salaries.
Paul Craig Roberts, Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan Creators.com December 1, 2009
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Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate wins the election in November.
Monsanto Inhouse Newsletter, October 6, 2000 The Future of Food
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Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food, our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.
Phil Angell, Director of Corporate Communication-Monsanto. New York Times, October 25, 1998
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“Did you learn to believe today, or did you learn to think?”
A question Nathra Nader often asked his young son Ralph about his day in school
