The constitution is so broad that it leaves room for people to make dictators. They do it in the name of SECURITY, but really it is TYRANNY.
It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. - Robert Heinlein
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. - Andrew Johnson
A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. - Plato
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
- Thomas Paine
We find that the sexual instinct, when disappointed and unappeased, frequently seeks and finds a substitute in religion.
- Baron Richard Von Kraft-Ebing
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
- Lord Halifax
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
- John Adams
These are some quotes I got from our Founding Fathers at freedomnest.com.
The purpose of life is not just to be "happy."
The purpose of it is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate.
It is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at
Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about things that matter."
MLK
Be still? It's pretty obvious you will never make there Streety. I doubt if you could shut up and BE STILL and KNOW anything if your life depended on it.
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