 1. "Corporations have been enthroned ... an era of corruption in high places will follow ... until all wealth is aggrigated in a few hands, and the republic is distroyed." ...Abraham Lincoln (1864) 2. 'Liberal': charitable, generous, abundant, open-handed, progressive, advanced, broadminded, tolerant, enlightened. 'Conservative': stingy, miserly, die-hard, reactionary, regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, narrow-minded. ...Roget's Thesaurus 3.'Conservative': One who believes in a system of government that either approaches or exemplifies the ideals of totalitarianism. ...Webster's Dictionary 4. "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ...Steven Weinberg (physicist) 5. "What you've got with (G.H.W.) Bush is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle. There's never been anything like this." ...Kevin Phillips (conservative political analyst) 6. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to focus on." ...George W. Bush 7. "If this was a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" ...George W. Bush - 2001 8. "The Bush administration has repeatedly shown that it will not allow facts to get in the way of its policy goals." ...Randolph T. Holhut 9. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ...Albert Einstein 10. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." ...Upton Sinclair 11. "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary citizens." ...Bill Clinton 12. "...if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promigated ... individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." ...Henry Kissinger 13. "The interests behind the Bush administration ... have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years." ...Dr. Johannes Koeppl (former official of the German Ministry of Defense and advisor to NATO) 14. "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crises and the nations will accept the New World Order." ...David Rockefeller 15. "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ... Abraham Lincoln 16. "Sarah, if the people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." ... Bush 41 to reporter Sarah McClendon, June 1992 17."In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way." ... Franklin D. Roosevelt 18."In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ... George Orwell 19."We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." ... Ron Suskind (Bush aide) 20."The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." ... Patrick Henry 21."When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." ... Thomas Jefferson 22."Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." ... Abraham Lincoln 23."There ought to be limits to freedom." (1999) ... George W. Bush 24."I'm the commander, .. I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like (I) owe anybody an explanation." ... George W. Bush 25."Democracies die behind closed doors." ... Damon Keith (appeals court judge)..on Bush's secracy. 26."During almost fifteen centuries, the legal establishment of Christianity has been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution." ... James Madison 27."Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ... Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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