” The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 9/4/2011 @ 1:01 am

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.

This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Find out just what 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

When the average person finds himself labeled a criminal

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on @ 12:56 am

“The more criminal the leadership of a country becomes, the easier it is for the average person to find himself labeled a criminal by that same leadership.”

– Giordano Bruno, in a post at Zero Hedge

Daniel Webster: “… the instruments of their own undoing.”

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“…There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.

From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.

I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”

– Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

Thomas Jefferson: The first principle of association

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“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

– Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Joseph Milligan, 1816