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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 12:11 AM
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old quotes can be very relevant today...
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams

"that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness." Thomas Jefferson

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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 12:13 AM
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1. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!
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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 12:32 AM
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2. Truth is timeless...
Edited on Fri Sep-29-06 12:34 AM by SaveOurDemocracy
Brilliant minds all:



"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~~Abraham Lincoln



"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
~~Thomas Jefferson



You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
~~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi



"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
~~ Abraham Lincoln



"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
~~ Elie Wiesel



"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi











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Jersey Devil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 01:05 AM
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3. Yes, this gem by Fielding Mellish says it all
“It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.”
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