Quotes.........

[HARDCORE]

"One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions. Television is the means by which most Americans get their “news.” Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. … The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are
controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore."
-- Bernie Sanders
(1941-) US Senator VT, former US Congressman VT
Source: “Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media,” The Hill (12 June 2002)



"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media."
-- Noam Chomsky
(1928- ) Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Source: at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[HARDCORE]

Marcus Tullius Cicero, quotes about Hypocrisy: January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC)

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.

[HARDCORE]

John Adams, quotes about Science:
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

[HARDCORE]

Ambrose Bierce, (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. quotes about Vote:

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

[HARDCORE]

Nothing is lost save honor. [Afer an unsuccessful attempt to corner the nation's gold supply. September 1869] James Fisk [1834-1872] Financier

[HARDCORE]

Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice --quotes about Anarchy:
Source: Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 438, 1928

The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution.

[HARDCORE]

Justice Louis D. Brandeis, quotes about Anarchy:
Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen... If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

[HARDCORE]

"If, God Forbid, anarchy ever does become an accepted way of life in America, it will not have arrived to that point by natural means. But rather because our government and our people have allowed it to occur, unchallenged and promoted by the few who wield absolute power in a dastardly and an obscene fashion.

Free thinking and a concern for the will of the majority is the natural state of liberty. Vested defiance against all that we have shed our blood, sweat and tears to built up over the past 232 years is not now, nor has it ever been, open to negotiation or it's bartering away by the few who see their dictates as being of a higher calling than the will and mandates of the majority of the people!" H. Rick Tavares 14 September 2008

[HARDCORE]

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727)

[Advisor]

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"Only Americans can hurt America."

"Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... Is freedom."

"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. "

"This world of ours... Must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."