Looking

"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars."
--Frederick Langbridge

Some

"You can fool some of the people all of the time,and all of the people some of the time,and that's good enough."
-- Dr. Edwin Vieira
President of the National Alliance for Constitutional Money, Constitutional lawyer and scholar

Plenty

"There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick."
--Grover Whalen (1886-1962)
New York City Police Commisioner

Steady

"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Law

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
-- Peter Kropotkin
[Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin] (1842-1921) Russian zoologist, activist, philosopher, economist, writer, scientist, evolutionary theorist, geographer and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists
Source: Words of a Rebel

Debauchery

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."
--John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economist
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235

Preconceived

"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!"
--George W. Malone (1890-1961)
U.S. Senator (Nevada),
1957 Source: speaking before Congress

Bellow

"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
--Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
French poet, essayist and editor

Constant

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
--Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
German Nazi Dictator, 1935
Source: Mein Kampf, p. 197. 14th Edition.

Nullification

"My own view rests on the premise that nullification can and should serve an important function in the criminal process ... The doctrine permits the jury to bear on the criminal process a sense of fairness and particularized justice ... The drafters of legal rules cannot anticipate and take account of every case where a defendant’s conduct is “unlawful” but not blameworthy, any more than they can draw a bold line to mark the boundary between an accident and negligence. It is the jury -- as spokesmen for the community’s sense of values -- that must explore that subtle and elusive boundary. ... I do not see any reason to assume that jurors will make rampantly abusive use of their power. Trust in the jury is, after all, one of the cornerstones of our entire criminal jurisprudence, and if that trust is without foundation we must reexamine a great deal more than just the nullification doctrine."
--Chief Judge David L. Bazelon U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Source: U.S. v. Dougherty, 473 F. 2d 1113, 1141-42 (dissent) (1972)

Knaves

"Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at."
--George Savile (1633 - 1695)

Whenever

"Whenever I watch Barney the dinosaur, I offer up a prayer of thanks for the meteorite that wiped out the rest."
--G. Linsgru

Again

"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow peopleto protect the country they stole from red people".
--Gerome Gragni, 1967

Wanton

"... while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" is a war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Air bombardment is state terrorism, the terrorism of the rich. It has burned up and blasted apart more innocents in the past six decades than have all the anti-state terrorists who ever lived. Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality. In the United States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the neighborhoods that surrounded them".
--C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist

Un-Renounce

"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave."
--Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

Today

"America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number".
--Arnold Toynbee, 1961

Unpredictable

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
--Franklin P. Jones

Symptom

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
--Author Unknown

Priority

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option"
--Mark Twain

Obstate

"Principio Obstate (Resist from the beginning)."
--Latin Proverb

Nannystate

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists." --Communist Party Education Workers Congress 1918

Only

"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."
--James Connolly

Chastity

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
US Founding father, pamphleteer, author

Cradled

"Do we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ... as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?"
--Sergei Hoff former Montana Deputy Sheriff
Source: 'Our Fears and Denials Will Enslave Us' by Sergei Hoff, October 23, 2004

Timeline

"On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
--Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

Utility

"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction."
--Cesare Beccaria(1735-1794) [Bonesana, Marchese di] Italian nobleman, criminologist, and penal reformerSource: Dei delitti e delle pene, [On Crimes and Punishments] ch.38 (1764)

Translation is as quoted by Thomas Jefferson in his _Commonplace Book_, 314 (G. Chinard ed. 1926), which was "the source book and repertory of Jefferson's ideas on government." Id. at 4.

Insinuated

"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."
--Michael Parenti (1933- )

Excuse

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
--Michael Rivero

Effect

"If we cannot learn, if the only effect upon us of the presence of the dynamiter in our midst is to make us multiply punishments, invent restrictions, increase the number of our official spies, forbid public meetings, interfere with the press, put up gratings -- as in one country they propose to do -- in our House of Commons, scrutinize visitors under official microscopes, request them, as at Vienna, and I think now at Paris also, to be good enough to leave their greatcoats in the vestibules ... I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time." -- Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) English author Source: "The Ethics of Dynamite", Contemporary Review, May 1894; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), p. 226

Later

"I begin by taking.
I shall find scholars later
to demonstrate my perfect right."
--Frederick the Great (1712-1786)
King of Prussia, Frederick II

Same

"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people."
--P. J. O'Rourke (1947- )
US humorist, journalist, & political commentator