Thomas Jefferson: Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4390
Voltaire: So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4391
Daniel Webster: Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4392
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Albert Einstein: The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4393
Albert Einstein: Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4394
Thomas Jefferson: Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4395
Thomas Jefferson: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4396
Thomas Jefferson: You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4397
General Douglas MacArthur: One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4398
Harry Truman: When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4399
Abraham Lincoln: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4400
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Abraham Lincoln: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4401
Mahatma Gandhi: Be the change you want to see in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4402
Abraham Lincoln: 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 and 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 until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4403
General Douglas MacArthur: Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4404
General Smedley Butler: I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.... I could have given Al Capone a few hints... I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys.... I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.... I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers.... I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4405
Frederick Douglass: Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4406
Harry Truman: Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4407
Thomas Jefferson: Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4408
Gore Vidal: When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4409
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Gore Vidal: The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4410
Franklin D. Roosevelt: In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4411
Felix Frankfurter: The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4412
Buckminster Fuller: Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4413
John Adams: It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4414
Marshall McLuhan: Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4415
Hitler: Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4416
Albert J. Beveridge: Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4417
Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4418
Thomas Jefferson: An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4419
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Thomas Jefferson: Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4420
James Baldwin: People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4421
The American Heritage Dictionary: Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4422
Plato: The penalty good men suffer for not getting involved in public affairs is being ruled by evil men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4423
Plato: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4424
Michael Parenti: The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4425