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"Those who shut their ears to the cry of the poor will themselves
also call and not be heard."
- Proverbs 21:13 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." --Plutarch |
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"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments:
rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws;
rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe."
-John Adams "The liberties of our country,the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood,and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is,if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle,or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." -Samuel Adams "The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." -Elmer Davis "The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life." -Justice William O. Douglas "The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty." - Justice William O. Douglas "It is the fist responsibility of every citizen to question authority." -Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790) US Founding Father "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage." -Sir Alex Fraser Tyler,(1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian "What fortune for leaders that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler "He who steals a handful of gold is put in jail; he who steals a whole country is made king." - Japanese proverb "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." -Thomas Paine "For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever." -Thomas Paine |