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lionkingcmslI hereby provide some quotes from some radicals:
He that's secure is not safe.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Who is this radical? Benjamin Franklin!
and words from another radical:
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
This radical's name? George Washington!
And a few words from a third:
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
And such strong words, of which there are more! Is this person one the government should seek out and discredit? I think not, as they belong to the framer of our Constitution: Thomas Jefferson!
Their thoughts are just as insightful today as they were in the 18th century.
He that's secure is not safe.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Who is this radical? Benjamin Franklin!
and words from another radical:
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
This radical's name? George Washington!
And a few words from a third:
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
And such strong words, of which there are more! Is this person one the government should seek out and discredit? I think not, as they belong to the framer of our Constitution: Thomas Jefferson!
Their thoughts are just as insightful today as they were in the 18th century.
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Date: 2011-05-17 10:31 pm (UTC)Tom: You can tell who's running the country by how much clothes people wear, see?
Dick: Do you mean that some people can afford more clothes on, and some people have... less on? Is that what you mean?
Tom: That's right.
Dick: I don't understand.
Tom: See, the ordinary people, you'd say that the ordinary people are the less-ons.
Dick: So who's running the country?
Tom: The morons.
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Date: 2011-06-03 04:35 pm (UTC)Re: Познавательный блог
Date: 2011-06-04 10:53 pm (UTC)Being I don't understand Russian I had to translate it using Babelfish.
I am under the impression you want to use this somewhere and give me credit. If this is the case, sure go ahead. ;=3
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