Andrew Jackson: Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4484
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4485
Theodore Roosevelt: Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4486
Manifesto, Second International Congress of Socialist Physicians in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1934: With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4487
Justice William O. Douglas: Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4488
Dwight Eisenhower: In the counsels 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4489
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Mark Twain: It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people, who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations, do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. And there is where is the harm lies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4490
Dresden James: The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4491
Dresden James: When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4492
Socrates: There was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4493
Buddha: Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4494
Sam Ewing: Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4495
Wilhelm Reich: You let men in power assume power "for the Little Man". But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4496
Hitler: The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4497
Nietzsche: One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4498
Patrick Henry: The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty... are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4499
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Arthur Young: ...everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4500
Napoleon Bonaparte: When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4501
Napoleon Bonaparte: Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4502
Napoleon Bonaparte: Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4503
Lenin: Political revolutions are inevitable in the course of the socialist revolution, which should not be regarded as a single act, but as a period of turbulent political and economic upheavals, the most intense class struggle, civil war, revolutions, and counter-revolutions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4504
Ronald Reagan: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4505
James Madison: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4506
Nietzsche: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4507
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Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4508
Aldous Huxley: The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4509
Voltaire: Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4510
Voltaire: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4511
George Bernard Shaw: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4512
George Bernard Shaw: Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4513
Goethe: There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4514
Thomas Jefferson: If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4515
Thomas Jefferson: The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4516
Henry David Thoreau: Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4517
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Blaise Pascal: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4518