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James Madison: The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4473
Henry Louis Mencken: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4474
Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages a cause that is just. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4475
Karl Marx: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4476
Justice William O. Douglas: Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4477
General Douglas MacArthur: Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4478
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 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 by any controlling private power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4479
James Madison: History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4480
James Madison: Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4481
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Thomas Jefferson: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience (has) shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce (the people) under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4482
Thomas Jefferson: Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4483
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