Dedicated to the European Union and its lackeys

The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.                   Plato (427-347 BC)

 

 

Give me six lines written by the most honourable of men,

and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

 

Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

 

Benjamin Franklin

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

John Curran, July 10, 1790, in a speech about electing the Mayor of Dublin.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
 

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Smith, Nov. 13, 1787

 

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857

Neither life, liberty, nor property of a man are sure while Parliament is meeting.

1 Tucker (N.Y. Surr.) 249 (1866)

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom.

It is the argument of tyrants;

it is the creed of slaves.

 

William Pitt

When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned.

Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14, 1968, vol. 114, p. 31636.

We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III.

Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know.

If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, New York: Random House, 1970

Political corruption begins with every voter who votes his pocketbook instead of for what's good for the country. There is little difference between the selling of his vote by an elected official and the selling of his vote by a voter, to whatever candidate promises him some benefit.
Jon Roland, speech during his campaign for Congress, 1974

Rights don't defend themselves. People have only those rights they are willing and able to unite to defend, with armed force if necessary. If you don't defend others when their rights are violated, don't expect anyone to defend yours , and those rights will be violated if they are not defended. Jon Roland, 1994

In politics nothing is done unless first you create a channel of corruption.
Jesse Cuellar, a cynic observer of the political scene, San Antonio, Texas, 1982

Those who cast the votes decide nothing.

Those who count the votes decide everything.
Attributed to Josef Stalin

Dedicated to those seeking Freedom from the European Union Dictatorship

 

I am only one, but I am one.

I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

What I can do, I should do.

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively.

 

 

Benjamin Franklin

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned.

When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Notebook, 1904

 

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
 

Samuel Adams

Liberty is defended in three stages:

The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridges box.

Ambrose Bierce

To those Parliamentarians who approved the EU Constitution

Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78

Potestas stricte interpretatur. A power is strictly interpreted.

In dubiis, non praesumitur pro potentia. In cases of doubt, the presumption is not in favor of a power.

Do not separate text from historical background.

If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

 

James Madison

On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), letter to Judge William Johnson, (from Monticello, June 12, 1823)

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 (Substitute United States with Malta, Congress with Parliament)