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MANY WISE ONES HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE AND HERE IS WHAT
THEY CAN OFFER TO US NOW:
Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.
When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.
Bob Dylan
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden
people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade
of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will
always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6,
1813.
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying
it, and eventually they will believe it."
Hitler
"It is more difficult to organize a peace than
to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is
not organized."
Aristotle
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Ben Franklin
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace; business
and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism,
sectionalism, war profiteering
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-1936 New Deal Address
"In politics we presume that everyone who knows
how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we
are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician."
Plato
"Violent means will give violent freedom. That
would be a menace to the world"
Mohandes Ghandi
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
Confucius
"Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of
love."
Aristotle
"Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when
people are hungry"
Zoroaster
"Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've
seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with
a fountain pen"
Woody Guthrie
"Fear always springs from ignorance"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
than lies."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the
common law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Cooper, February 10,
1814
"A fool can make things bigger, more complex, and
more violent"
Albert Einstein
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment
of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of
those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-James Madison
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu 600 BCE
"Of course the people don't want war. But after
all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's
always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy,
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
In every country and in every age, the priest has been
hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting
his abuses in return for protection to his own.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March
17, 1814
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant
springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Plato
"...for it is a truth, which the experience of
all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when
the means of ensuring their rights are in the possession of those of
whom they entertain the least suspicion."
-Alexander Hamilton
"The people cannot delegate to government the power
to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
-John Locke
"The pioneers of a warless world are the men who
refuse military service."
-Albert Einstein
"Those who do not remember history are condemned
to repeat it."
-George Santayana
"In a country badly governed, wealth is something
to be ashamed of."
Confucius
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
-Aldous Huxley
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Lao Tzu 600 BCE
"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty
to protest."
-Abraham Lincoln
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long
into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
19th-century philosopher
"Nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know
where he is going."
Joe Namath
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig
two graves."
Confucius
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is
powerful"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be
achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
"What difference does it make to the dead, the
orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Mohandes Ghandi
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you
have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each
of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream
you dream together is reality."
John Lennon
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