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Quotes for Independence Day
Posted By: Dquixote1217 [Send E-Mail]
Date: Wednesday, 3-Jul-2013 09:23:54
"Man knows no master save Heaven, or those whom choice and common good ordain." - Thomas Paine from the cover of Common Sense.
"Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Bastiat
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." - George Washington
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence." - Locke
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only be a government with totalitarian powers . . .'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - Frederich August von Hayek
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority . . . There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Noah Webster
"God has given to all men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat, The Law
as excerpted from "Common Sense Revisited - America at a New Crossroads"
http://www.tbyil.com/Common_Sense_Revisited.htm
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1 comment:
They were perfect by no means, but the proposed system of governance found in the Articles of the Constitution known as the Bill Of Rights established the most perfect attempt at FAIR governance the world has ever known. This being said, I know they are ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES at what we've allowed ourselves to become. At what we've put up with, slept through, reasoned away through apathy, transferred onto others. This country is FAR DIFFERENT from the one I was born into in 1959, just as that day was from 1776. Soon we will all be faced with a choice. Is Life that precious that we can continue to make do with less and less LIBERTY, while allowing ourselves to be force-fed more and more BULLSHIT? Once the 'you can't read it until you vote for it', all-encompassing ObamaCare mandate takes effect, you will be FORCED to pay, at GUNPOINT. What will you do then, swine? When you can't pay? Just why do you THINK the IRS and DHS and allll the rest of the ABC's have been gearing up and buying BILLIONS of hollow points? DUHHHHHHH. Oh, and BTW, 'Happy Independence Day'...meet the NEW boss, a psychopathic version of the old boss, only on 'ROIDS and Artificial Growth Hormones.
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