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Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." — Thomas Jefferson

"History is littered with the moral bankruptcy of people who were Christian in name but not in behaviour, who were silent or indifferent in the face of dehumanising and destructive power of governments." — Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu


My Favorite Quotations:


"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863



"Once Marxists seize power through deception, manipulation, exploitation, and corrupt interference with the political process, they never give it up. It is entirely possible that we will never see the end of the current regime of Marxists in America." — Marie Jon


Daniel Webster - "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter: From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing."


Coexistence on this tightly knit earth should be viewed as an existence not only without wars… but also without [the government] telling us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and what not to know. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from a speech given September 11, 1973


"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead." — Aristotle, 384–322 B.C.



Thomas Jefferson - 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have"---Thomas Jefferson

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."

"Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

“If a nation expects to be ignorant - and free - in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816

"Any government that willfully violates the rule of law and encroaches on the rights of the people ceases to be a legitimate government.”--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."--John Stewart Mill--

Ronald Reagan's Assignment to us all:

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." -- Ronald Wilson Reagan
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
"It isn't that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Wilson Reagan


Miscellaneous:

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Chuck Yeager

"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman

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



No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain


As the federal official who signs the audit report on the government's financial statements, it is apparent that our government's financial condition is far worse than advertised.   (David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States)


“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. ...He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.” -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC—43 BC)


"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." --John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787


"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." - Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature...If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." - James Garfield in 1877
"Not life, but a good life is to be chiefly valued." - Socrates
"While I appreciate that becoming your "brother in Islam" might afford me a measure of personal security, some things are more important than that. I cannot and will not give in to personal intimidation, and I don't want to live in a society that bows to such intimidation." - (Robert Spencer)
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- (James Madison)
"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people."

"The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves." -- (James Madison)


"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.  Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.  May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."  -  (Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776)


"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of GOD, I will do."  -  Edward Everett Hale (decendent of Nathan Hale)


"Let us remember and recognize that America is rooted in the Christian faith. Our sixth President John Quincy Adams (1824-1828). On July 4, 1821, he said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity!" He later said, "The birth day of our nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth (and) laid the cornerstone." Separation of church and state does not mean separation of God and state. "In God we trust" was not an extraneous thought in the minds of the Founders."   --   Rev. Dr. Daniel Mercaldo  (Senior Pastor of Church at the Gateway, in Staten Island's Richmond Valley community.)


9/14/09 "The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone."

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment upon 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 freemen 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.

We revere this lesson too much ...to forget it."  -James Madison


"It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other."  --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791


"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.


"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." -Albert Einstein


Proverbs 29:27 - “An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception; the one who lies with sincerity.” - Andre Gide (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -  (Edmund Burke)

Eisenhower on Free Speech:  "May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

“I never said most of the things I said.” — Yogi Berra

“[W]e must choose from among our guardians those men who, upon examination, seem most of all to believe throughout their lives that they must eagerly pursue what is advantageous to the city and be wholly unwilling
to do the opposite.” — Socrates

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both." - Proverbs 29:13

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things:
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), ("Following the Equator", 1897)

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." -  Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams.

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." -  John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." (Robert Jackson)

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."  Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."  Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."  Theodore Roosevelt

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."  - Theodore Roosevelt

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

Job 11:12   "An idiot will become intelligent when the foal of a wild donkey is born a man."

"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."   Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."   George Jackson (1941 - 1971)

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."   George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."   Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
They never mention that part to us, do they?"   George Carlin

"The I.R.S. has what it takes to take what you have!"

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan

"There are only two places where socialism will ever work-in Heaven, where it is not needed, and in Hell, where it is already in practice!" - Winston Churchill

…“Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue.  Extremism in the pursuit of justice is no vice.” -- Senator Barry Goldwater

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine


Social and environmental change needs a degree of anger to translate concern into effective action. But this impulse needs to be tempered by love. Self-righteousness does not aid change, it merely lets us and others off the hook. - Jonathan Bartley, Environmentalist
Sherman: America's first "civil rights" crusader.
William Sherman's march to the sea, writes Victor Davis Hanson approvingly, was a war of "terror" intended to destroy an aristocratic Southern culture he hated because of its impudence in resisting the central government's authority.

Although rarely acknowledged as such, Sherman could be considered America's first "civil rights" crusader. This isn't an endorsement of Sherman; it's an indictment of contemporary "civil rights" ideology.



    TIME
  • We enter it at birth,
  • We pass through it in life,
  • We exit it at death--
  • It was our preparation for eternity.
                    -- Richard (Dick) Innes

 

Conscience:  A person's moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects their own behaviour.

"Never do anything against, even if the state demands it."  (Albert Einstein)
 
 Etymology:  conscience, from conscientia  'knowledge within oneself', from scire  'to know'.
 
 (Albert Einstein...as quoted by  Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, 1949)

Albert Einstein said,  the definition of insanity...“doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." - Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” - Albert Einstein


"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." — George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789

 
The Ten Commandments:

Exodus 20:1-18 *(NASB)

  1. Then God spoke all these words, saying,
    2.  
  2. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    3.  
  3. "You shall have no other gods before Me.
    4.  
  4. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
    5.  
  5. "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
    6.  
  6. but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    7.  
  7. "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain."
    8.  
  8. "Remember (K)the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    9.  
  9. "Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
    10.  
  10. but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it (M)you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
    11.  
  11. "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
    12.  
  12. "Honor your father and your mother, that your (B)days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
    13.  
  13. "You shall not murder.
    14.  
  14. "You shall not commit adultery.
    15.  
  15. "You shall not steal.
    16.  
  16. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
    17.  
  17. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
    18.  
  18. All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.


    19. New American Standard Bible *(NASB)  
     Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975,  
     1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation


Proverbs 12:14-16 (Amplified Bible)
14 From the fruit of his words a man shall be satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hands shall come back to him [as a harvest].
15  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise.
16  A fool's wrath is quickly and openly known, but a prudent man ignores an insult.
Proverbs 16:18 (Amplified Bible)
18  "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 29:13 (NIV)
18  "The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both."
Proverbs 29:27 (NASB)
27  "An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked."

Luke 6:37 (Amplified Bible)
37  "Judge not [neither pronouncing judgment nor subjecting to censure], and you will not be judged; do not condemn and pronounce guilty, and you will not be condemned and pronounced guilty; acquit and forgive and release (give up resentment, let it drop), and you will be acquitted and forgiven and released."
Luke 6:42 (Amplified Bible)
37  How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

John 7:24 (Amplified Bible)
24 "Be honest in your judgment and do not decide at a glance (superficially and by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously."

2 Corinthians 10:18 (NIV)
18 "For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."

2 Timothy 2:14-15 (NIV) [ A Workman Approved by God ]
14 "Keep reminding them of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen."
15  "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth."

Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)
12 "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

James 1:19-22 (Amplified Bible) 19 "Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear -
[a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry.
20  For man's anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires].
21  So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls.  22 But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]."


 Psalm 14:1-2 [NIV]

 1 The fool says in his heart, 
       "There is no God." 
       They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; 
       there is no one who does good.
 
 2 The LORD looks down from heaven 
       on the sons of men 
       to see if there are any who understand, 
       any who seek God.



Psalm 92: (NASB)
6 The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
8 But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.

 
 Micah 6:8 (NASB) He has (A)told you, O man, what is good; And (B)what does the LORD require of you but to (C)do justice,
to (D)love kindness, and to walk (E)humbly with your God?

 

Matthew 6:9-13 (NASB) (9)"(B)Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. (10)'(C)Your kingdom come (D)Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. (11)'(E)Give us this day our daily bread. (12)'And (F)forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. (13)'And do not lead us into temptation, but (G)deliver us from (H)evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]'

Mark 12:17 (NASB)  And Jesus said to them, " Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."  And they were amazed at Him.


Romans 13:1, 9 (NIV)  [ Submission to the Authorities ] 1 "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.   The authorities that exist have been established by God."
 
 9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."


1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."


2 Timothy 2:23 (NIV) " Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels."


Matthew 22:36-39 (NASB)36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
 
 37 And He said to him,
 
 " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 "The second is like it,
'(F)YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'



   
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