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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
-John Quincy Adams
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” –FDR
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive” –Thomas Jefferson
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion."
- Thomas Jefferson
"This is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." -Benjamin Franklin
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not”.
–Thomas Jefferson
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people (e.g., by pitting the cooperation-oriented political left against the competition-oriented political right), until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." - Thomas Jefferson
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-Abraham Lincoln
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”
– Abraham Lincoln
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-President Woodrow Wilson-1916
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” –FDR
“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” Thomas Jefferson
“Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.”
–George Washington
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Benjamin Franklin
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” –John Adams
"I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate." - Thomas Jefferson
"Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
"Scare the hell out of the American people."
-Senator Arthur Vandenburg, telling President Truman what he needed to do in order to tax the American people to pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State
Though they were made by some of the most evil men in history, I think these next quotes are worth looking at as well:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” Adolf Hitler
“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.” –Joseph Stalin
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. “
–Adolf Hitler
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” –Adolf Hitler
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