John Locke and Load -- Maxims for Jeffersonian Terrorists

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John Locke and Load -- Maxims for Jeffersonian Terrorists

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. -- Clive Bell

There is little to be feared from the standard picture of a totalitarian society in which 'cogs,' who are watched by Big Brother or his equivalent, carry out orders emanating from the top. Such a society would collapse in inefficiency. What is infinitely more fearsome is the capacity of a dictatorship to use the principle of competition to organize terror and murder. -- Ronald Wintrobe

... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience ... [Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the Establishment of a new Legislative (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own Safety and Security, which is the end for which they are in Society. -- John Locke

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors. -- John Locke

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other. -- John Locke

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars. -- Richard Mitchell

Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits -- Sir Josiah Stamp

If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. -- Thomas Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -- Thomas Edison

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business. -- R. 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no way to peace; peace is the way. -- A. J. Muste

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety. -- George Mason

Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -- Henry Ford

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. -- Harold Evans

Wars are caused by undefended wealth. -- Douglas MacArthur

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. -- 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. -- James Madison

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. -- Richard Henry Lee

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery. -- Lucanus

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edwards

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants. -- Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour -­ with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. -- Douglas MacArthur

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. -- George Mason

Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers. -- George Mason

That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State... -- George Mason

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. -- George Mason

A radical is one who speaks the truth. -- Charles A. Lindberg Sr.

This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill. -- Charles A. Lindberg Sr.

There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them. -- Clare Boothe Luce

Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand. -- Robert E. Lee

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. -- George Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. -- George Bernanos

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. -- David Brin

The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances. -- Harry Browne

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. -- Robert E. Lee

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them. -- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. -- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness. -- William Blase

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. -- Saladin

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government. -- Charles Murray

At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that? -- Clint Eastwood

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. -- John A. Hobson

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. -- Janet Frame

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. -- Andrew B. Law

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. -- Lord George Lyttleton

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. -- A. J. Muste

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment. -- Ben Bagdikian

Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships. -- Andrei Sakharov

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -- Victor Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. -- Victor Frankl

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind... Lavrentii Pavlovich Beria

Psychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow. -- Joost A. Merloo

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people. -- Peter Mc Williams

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. -- George Bernanos

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. -- Max Eastman

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. -- Wayne LaPierre

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity... -- Robert M. Lafollette Sr.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. -- Bruce Barton

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men. -- Robert M. Lafollette Sr

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free --Ezra Taft Benson

What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America. -- Harry C. Bauer

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. -- James Madison

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. -- Lord Herbert Lousi Samuel

Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine. -- Victor Ferkiss

The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. -- Joseph Schumpeter

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. -- Desiderius Erasmus

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. -- Clint Eastwood

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. -- Randolph Bourne

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. -- Elias Boudinot

It is necessary that the powers vested in government should be precisely defined, that the people may be able to know whether it moves in the circle of the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 is intolerably vague. The Federal government will push its taxing power to the limit. It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands for more. Hence it is that all as far as we are acquainted are in debt. I take this to be a settled truth that they will all spend as much as their revenue. That is, will live at least up to their income. Congress will ever exercise their powers to levy as much money as the people can pay. They will not be restrained from direct taxes by the consideration that necessity does not require them. -- Melancton Smith

We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. -- Isaac Singer

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. -- Adi Shankaracharya

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. -- Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is a proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is condemnation before investigation. -- Herbert Spencer

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths. -- Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him. -- Herbert Spencer

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions. -- Herbert Spencer

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? -- Jean-Baptist Say

Let me write the songs of a nation - I don't care who writes its laws. -- Andrew Fletcher

What is the fairest fruit of the English Tree of Liberty? The security of our rights and of the law, and that no man shall be brought to trial where there is a prejudice against him. -- Thomas Erskine

It is, of course, true that if we continue to lose our freedoms, concentration camps on U.S. soil would eventually become a reality. -- Thomas R. Eddlem

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. -- Hosea Ballou

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful. -- Neal Boortz

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. -- Louis Lamour

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking...are the principles that must guide our steps.' -- Hans Senholz

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. -- Igor Sikorsky

In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy, faith and commerce. -- Hans L. Eicholz

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal. -- Émile Faguet

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. -- Douglas MacArthur

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom. -- Oswald Spengler

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. -- Stendhal

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. Robert Lindner

Religious liberty is primarily a man's liberty to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion, and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith. -- Giovanni Miegge

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions. -- Epictetus

I believe [that William Graham Sumner] was one of the greatest professors we ever had at Yale, but I have drawn far away from his point of view, that of the old laissez faire doctrine. I remember he said in his classroom: 'Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.' That amused his class very much, for he was as far from a revolutionary as you could expect. But I would like to say that if that time comes when there are two great parties, Anarchists and Socialists, then I am a Socialist. -- Irving Fisher

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth, or it is an error; it can never be a crime or a virtue. -- Francis Wright

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. -- Francis Wright

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction. -- Thomas I. Emerson

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. -- Jules Michelet

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. -- Barbara Ehrenreich

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. -- Chester Bowles

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes. -- Carl Friedrich Bahrdt

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. -- John Wooden

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself. which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country. -- Gaetano Mosca

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. -- James Madison

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -- James Madison

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. -- James Madison

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. -- James Madison

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many thought provoking thoughts in that, many thanks man.

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Quote:many thought provoking thoughts in that, many thanks man.

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Bravo, very good read here
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Quote:Bravo, very good read here
thanks!

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