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Owned by Unordained - Created on 07/07/2003 - Last edited on 12/25/2006  03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.08/29/08 :: Quote :: Harry S TrumanWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 01/28/08 :: Quote :: Hannah ArendtThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 10/31/07 :: Article :: On education :: Teaching, testing, certifying08/26/07 :: Article :: Support the troops! :: Opposing a war is more difficult than it sounds04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 03/15/07 :: Quote :: O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. 02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. 02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellThere is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.  12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 06/10/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: MonkeySphere05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! 05/12/06 :: Quote :: AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Victor HugoWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe 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. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Woodrow WilsonLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 11/23/05 :: Quote :: Henry David ThoreauAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.  11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility11/01/05 :: Folder :: Concepts10/07/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. 09/30/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 08/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Inside Ronald Reagan08/11/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Fact Check08/04/05 :: Quote :: Benjamin FranklinIn these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, [...] 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
[I rarely see the second part quoted, but I think it's important to realize that Jefferson knew the implications of wha [...] 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 07/23/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Power of Nightmares07/15/05 :: Article :: Catch the terror :: T-shirt idea07/08/05 :: Quote :: GhandiI believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill. 06/09/05 :: Quote :: Frederick DouglassIf there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggl [...] 05/30/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Libertarian Platform (current)03/15/05 :: Quote :: Oscar AmeringerPolitics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. 02/26/05 :: Article :: On teaching evolution in public schools :: 02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!02/11/05 :: Article :: Nuclear Proliferation :: This is almost funny.01/26/05 :: Article :: Second Amendment :: (to the constitution of the United States of America, that is)01/24/05 :: Quote :: Charles de GaulleThe graveyards are full of indispensable men. 01/21/05 :: Quote :: Dale HancheyEvery government, once established, becomes oppressive. 01/21/05 :: Article :: Government run like a business :: For-profit, non-profit, or for-loss -- what's a government expected to do?01/17/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Jon Stewart on Crossfire01/14/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.  12/06/04 :: Article :: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics :: More tips on how to convince idiots and kill dialog10/18/04 :: Article :: The problem with Conservatives and Liberals :: A bizarre thought I had to get down on paper 10/10/04 :: Article :: Trouble in Sudan :: Election year and the lack of interest in Third World problems10/07/04 :: Article :: The Election :: Are we sick of the candidates yet?09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still?05/07/04 :: Article :: Beware the demonizers :: How to spot crap on sight04/18/04 :: Quote :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)... gentlemen do not read each other's mail. 04/13/04 :: Article :: Justice, law, morality, ethics :: What would you like?04/08/04 :: Article :: Fighting fire with fire :: Dealing with terrorism when you aren't sure it's wrong04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?04/07/04 :: Article :: What are we electing? :: Representatives, whether local or national, are an interesting thing.04/07/04 :: Quote :: Theodore RooseveltTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. 03/23/04 :: Article :: Rockets :: We don't need no stinking handcuffs!03/04/04 :: File :: Redux :: Quick-time video03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S.-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti02/22/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Election Selection02/19/04 :: Article :: Minority Report :: Conflict of interest in the Minority Party02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story02/16/04 :: Article :: Memogate :: Ready the black helicopters02/13/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Leaky Wing gets the squeeze?02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!!02/05/04 :: Article :: An Ounce of Prevention :: What if The People don't want to do what is good for them?02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)01/22/04 :: Article :: The Real Voodoo :: The Recession argument is conducted poorly 01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists01/14/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Thrifty spenders01/12/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: US Pushes Forward on Passenger Risk Database01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors.01/12/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: America's Homegrown Terrorists01/05/04 :: Quote :: Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief (Hitler's right-hand man)We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one pie [...] 12/18/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ransom :: My answers to Unordained's questions on marriage12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview 12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Christian Research Institute - Rape, Marriage, and the Significance of Sex: Why Traditional Values Matter12/17/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ensis. :: longwinded answers to questions posed by Unordained12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 11/26/03 :: Article :: Same God? :: Christianity ... Islam ... Judaism ... Are they all just worshiping the same God?11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Guerrilla News Network11/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The 9/11 Cover-up11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus11/13/03 :: Quote :: Michael PaineAn important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. 10/31/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Top Israeli Officer Says Tactics Are Backfiring10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians10/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: My Baby Boy's American Freedoms Vanish In Occupied Palestine09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Benjamin FranklinThose who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: SupertrampNow watch what you say
They'll be calling you a radical, liberal,
Fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name?
We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable,
Presentable, a vegetable. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeIf government were a product, selling it would be illegal. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Napoleon BonaparteTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Søren KierkegaardPeople demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)What luck for the rulers that men do not think! 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified] Any good college textbook on "oppression and how to make the masses scream for it" will tell you that the following pattern must be followed:
1. Introduce oppression as a theoretical idea. Gauge the response.
2. Make oppression optional. Depending on the opposition to the idea (you did remember to gauge the response to the theoretical idea, didn't you?), offer some worthless token that the mass [...] 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 09/04/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Deadly Franchise07/29/03 :: Article :: Hate mail? :: Taking a look at how people respond to sarcasm07/29/03 :: Article :: Shouting "Fire!" in a Crowded Room :: An attack on propaganda and on anti-propaganda propaganda07/24/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Future Begins Now07/24/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Ghost In The Machine07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Republican Party Platform (2000)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Green Party Platform (current)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Democratic Party Platform (2000)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Issues2000.org07/03/03 :: Article :: Voting :: Does your vote count?07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. missile strike kills al Qaeda chief07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Bush Slow to OK Drones in Bin Laden Hunt07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Human Rights Watch07/02/03 :: Article :: Rule of law :: The wars on terrorism are wars against ourselves07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics |
