All tyranny needs to
gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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
danger. It works the same in any country. — Nazi Reich Marshal
Hermann Goering
Those who cast the
votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide
everything. - Josef Stalin
The ruling class has
the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the
emotions of the masses. - Albert Einstein
A politician will do anything to keep his
job, even become a patriot. - William Randolph Hearst
"Ninety
eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking,
honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the
publicity. But then, we elected them." - Lily Tomlin
"An American is a
person who does things because they haven't been done before." -
Mark Twain
"This land is your
land, this land is my land; From California to the New York Island;
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters; This land was made
for you and me." -- Woodie Guthrie, 1944
"You're really no one in this town until you haven't
met me." - Jack Abramoff
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest
profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close
resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. —
Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
"In religion and
politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case
gotten at second hand and without examination." -- Mark Twain
He has erected a multitude of New Offices,
and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and
eat out their substance. -- Declaration of Independence
statement of grievances against King George III
No doubt one may quote history to support any
cause, as the devil quotes scripture. - Learned Hand
The broad mass of the nation ... will more
easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. — Adolf
Hitler (in Mein Kampf, 1925)
The things that will destroy us are: politics
without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without
work; knowledge without character; business without morality;
science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. -
Mahatma Gandhi
All tyranny needs to
gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The ruling class has
the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the
emotions of the masses. - Albert Einstein
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas
Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, Nov. 13, 1787
This new world hath been the asylum for the
persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part
of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces
of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so
far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first
emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. --Thomas
Paine
"Where have all the flowers
gone? Gone to soldiers every one. When will we ever learn? When will
we ever learn?" - Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson folk song
No doubt one may quote history to support any
cause, as the devil quotes scripture. - Learned Hand
"Keep, ancient
lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give
me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the
homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!" -- Emma Lazarus, "The New
Colossus" (Written in 1883 "in Aid of the Bartholdi
Pedestal Fund." Lazarus' sonnet was engraved on a plaque and
placed in the pedestal as a memorial in 1903. While France had
provided the statue itself, American fundraising efforts paid for the
Statue of Liberty's pedestal.)
