A page of quotes, some familiar, all well spoken and sometimes my commentary on them.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson

He just may have known what he was talking about.         100101


“I would not go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things to fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any reason is simply a racket”
-Major General Smedley Darlington Butler USA 

How long will it take to figure out that war is only profitable to the already rich who sell it to the rest through a torrent of lies, hate and fear.          90926


 "When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis

It should be obvious that we will all come together and fight an outside enemy.  The real danger is that someone inside will be able to divide us by using our emotions over issues of nataionalism and faith.       80203



"Any nation that would exchange a few liberties for a few securities deserves neither and will lose both."- Ben Franklin

When I think about the freedoms we have unquestioningly given up in fear of some potential terrorist act, it makes me ill.  Our forefathers fought, suffered and died to secure these freedoms and for us to allow ourselves into being scared into giving them up makes a mockery of their sacrifice.     60813


"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln

I will carry to my death the guilt for not protesting more vigorously against our illegal adventure in Iraq.  I didn't believe that Congress would so easily authorize such an unconstitutional, immoral and unconscionable act as to attack a soveriegn country who had not attacked our shores.  Shame on Congress, shame on me.    60813


"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

To a great quote from one of my favorite writers.  All I can add is question everything you see, hear or read.   60813


"In the beginning of change the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned.  When his cause succeeds, even the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain

This is something that is just not clearly taught in social studies.   I'm sure a great many of the founders of our country were not very popular at the time.   60813


"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." "All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

This one pretty much says it all in two lines. If you see something wrong you must act even if the only conscionable act is to "bear witness". 60813


"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is much harder to supress the a thought than it is the thinker.     60820


"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Just simple truth that people are sadly still ignoring.    60820


"The first casualty when war comes is truth." - Hiram Johnson
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler

I agonized over using the Hitler quote, but it ties in nicely Johnson's observation and shows how the mind of a monster works.   60820


"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."    -    Thomas Mann
 
Another way of saying that it takes more courage to act with love than fear.   60820
 

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

 Again, and always,  act with love.    60820

I hope you enjoyed these quotes and that they perhaps gave you pause for thought.   If you wish to comment or offer another worthy quote please use the contact me page.  

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