"Quote Me"

[FogOfLies]

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
-- Julius Caesar

[Project]

How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to
journalists, and they believe what they read.

— Karl Kraus, "Aphorisms and More Aphorisms"

[Project]

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

— Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816

[Project]

I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

— Judge Roy Bean, finding a pistol and $40 on a man he'd just shot.

[Project]

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are
men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters.

— Frederick Douglass

DONE!

[FogOfLies]

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are
men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters.

— Frederick Douglass

DONE!

Excellent! Keep them coming.....thnx........Michael

[FogOfLies]

Excellent! Keep them coming.....thnx........Michael

“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegance.”
President George Herbert Walker Bush Addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, February 1, 1992

[Project]

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
--Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli of England, in 1844.

"We know in the not too distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control the media. We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of them"
--Time Warner spokesperson.

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
-- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House.

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries"
--David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting
in June of 1991

[circledancer]

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

[circledancer]

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo

[circledancer]

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

[FogOfLies]

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels in His Diary

[Topper]

If you want enemies excel others; If you want friends let others excel you.
Colton