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"Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
--James Bovard
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"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international
crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from
other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole."-- Nuremberg Tribunal
"The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened
the U.N. charter."-- U.N. Chief Kofi Annan - September 2004
[Source BBC]
"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the
cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his
respect for the law." Frederic Bastiat (1801~1850) French
economist, statesman, and author [Source: "The Law," by Frederic
Bastiat, 1850]
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."-- Frederick Douglass
"It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that
words like 'democracy,' 'freedom', 'rights', 'justice', which have
so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for
things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the
means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold."-- Sir
Norman Angell (1874~1967), 1956.
"As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power
of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon
the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a
few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment
more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in
the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove
groundless."-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 --
(letter to Col. William F. Elkins) [Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia,
Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, N.Y.)]
"They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor
excommunicated, for they have no souls."-- Lord Edward Coke
"criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not
sufficient capital to form a corporation."-- Howard Scott
"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or
enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you
by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under
institutions which are in consonance with their sacred
laws." (General F.S. Maude, commander of British forces in Iraq, 1917)
"Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy
your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to
restore your rights!" (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1798)
"If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it
requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,
break the law."-- Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil
Disobediance," 1849
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner."-- James Bovard, 1994 [Source:
"Lost Rights. The Destruction of American Liberty" (St. Martin's
Press: New York, 1994), p. 333]
"The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human
breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of
fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of
peace."-- James Madison
"A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute
monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired,
each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far
as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and
its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own
thoughts."-- James Anthony Froude (1818~1894), Author and
historian [Source: "Short Studies on Great Subjects"]
"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny,
murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with
high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our
victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise
savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering
accidentally into their oil wells."-- John Flynn, 1944
"Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched."--
Guy de Maupassant
"Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One
would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-
evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and
learned [socially conditioned and indoctrinated] people not only do
not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every
unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no
rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and
elevating."-- Leo Tolstoy
"Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to
provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for
denial."-- William H. Boyer
"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always
insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies'
-- 'one against all' -- and that a fundamental difference exists
between this people and all others. It claims its people to be
unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies
theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before
it is used to destroy the humanity of man."-- Hannah Arendt, "The
Origins Of Totalitarianism" p.227
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