"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

- Albert Einstein

"To out a CIA operative for political reasons is just unbelievable. This hurts the intelligence community which is supposed to be protecting us. I hope Rove rots in hell."

- Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent

"I think the U.S. Federal government has been busily putting in place a kind of authoritarian infrastructure over the last four years with the Patriot Act and various other measures. And I think ultimately these are intended – at least partially – for domestic use, to control social disorder, as the economy starts to come apart."

- Richard Heinberg, speaking about Peak Oil   http://www.energybulletin.net/5686.html

"I attended a meeting where farmers from the USA were present. I told them a story I'd read about how rice production in Liberia was depressed because of cheap imports from the USA. The American farmers said this was a deliberate policy by the US State Department to make countries dependent on them for food.

I began to investigate and discovered that, while the EU has abandoned its policy of providing food aid, initially sending money so that food can be bought locally, the US still insists it will only give food in kind. This makes me feel those farmers were right."

- Tewolde Berhan, chief of Ethiopia's Environment Agency

 
"Matthew Simmons, who wrote a book about Saudi Arabian oil, apparently briefed Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of the Halliburton oil services company, that Saudi drilling techniques—water and carbon dioxide is pumped into a well to push out the oil when the well begins to dry up—could cause a fall in oil production. If Matthew Simmons is correct, the world's oil supply will soon decline more quickly than ever before. So the neo-conservatives were shoring up America's oil supply through the Iraq raid, and discussions about Islam, terrorism and the appalling reign of Saddam Hussein are merely a smokescreen for that imperative."

- Dr. Arthur Chesterfield-Evans of The Australian Democrats

"You may not like our questions, but we represent the people. I've had my fill of the administration forgetting that this is a constitutional system in which there are three separate, but equal, branches."

- Senator Robert Byrd (D - West Virginia), speaking to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

RS: You've called Bush a loser.

HR: And a liar.

RS: You apologized for the loser comment.

HR: But never for the liar, have I?

- Interview between Rolling Stone and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

- George W. Bush

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. 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 is the greatest enemy of the State."

- Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are… …a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a letter to his brother, November 8, 1954

"The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad will be recorded, alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall, as one of the great moments in the history of liberty."

- George W. Bush

"You go into an Arab nation, you kill people, you steal their oil, you destroy their country and charge them to have it rebuilt. You are giving terrorism a whole new life."

- Camilo Mejia, US Army deserter

"Nonviolence is not 'doing nothing', nor is it naive. It's based on a fundamental insight into the nature of power, which is if the oppressed and their allies refuse to cooperate with the rulers, the rulers lose their power. The key to government power is obedience and legitimacy. If the people don't see the authorities as legit, their power base evaporates."

- Sean Gonsalves, from the Cape Cod Times

"Democracies have certain things in common; they have a rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and a viable political opposition."

- G.W. Bush

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need.

– U.S. Brig. General William Looney

"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill." - George W. Bush

"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity and incumbency." - G.W. Bush

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

War settles nothing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Power always thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. - John Adams

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan

We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it. - James Carroll

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him? - Blaise Pascal

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew;

And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

- Martin Niemöller

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." - John Sheehan, SJ. (a Jesuit priest)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will." - Frederick Douglass

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. - Thomas Jefferson

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. - Abraham Flexner

"The claim that we are safer is the biggest lie of this campaign season." - Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change (DMCC), an unprecedented coalition of over 50 career chiefs of mission and retired four-star military leaders which is urging that President Bush not be re-elected.

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." --Justice William O.Douglas

as Thomas Jefferson said, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

What no one seemed to notice...was the ever widening gap...between the government and the people....And it became always wider....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway...and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated...by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us....Each act... is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow....But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays....Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood....You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair. --An excerpt from Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1938-45" (1955, University of Chicago Press)

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. --Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the U.S.

'As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.' - Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. - Gerard K. O'Neill

"I can thank God at this moment that He has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle for what is our right..." - Adolf Hitler, Speech in Berlin, October 6, 1939

'In 1946 the judges at Nuremberg who tried the Nazi leaders for war crimes left no doubt about what they regarded as the gravest crimes against humanity. The most serious was unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state that offered no threat to one's homeland. Then there was the murder of civilians, for which responsibility rested with the 'highest authority.' - John Pilger

I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminals-rape, robbery and murder. - Roman Podabedov (Russian anti-tank gunner)

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn, historian and author

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. - Edmund Burke

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. - George Washington

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. - George Washington

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

'If Americans win a war (not just against Saddam Hussein but the longer-term struggle) and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything.' - Lance Morrow

"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, 1776

"We all have to recognize," Harry Truman said in 1945, "[that] no matter how great our strength … we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please."

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. - Albert Camus

"We shouldn't be here," said one Marine infantryman bluntly. "There was no reason for invading this country in the first place. We just came here and [angered people] and killed a lot of innocent people," said the marine, who has seen regular combat in Ramadi. "I don't enjoy killing women and children, it's not my thing."

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. - Pope John Paul II

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. - Calvin Coolidge

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. - Joseph A. Schumpeter

Phony pretexts repeated often enough become real reasons. Things that...are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition. - Lenny Bloom

...patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. - Julius Caesar

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. - Ludwig Von Mises

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. - Alexis de Tocqueville

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. - Frederick Douglass

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. - Tom Daschle

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection. - Butler Shaffer

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." - Hermann Goering

"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." - Hitler

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

 
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush, Aug. 5, 2004
 
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. 
– Ernest Hemingway 
 
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers...." 
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, foreword to 1946 edition
 
The coward threatens when he is safe. 
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
 
War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. 
– Samuel B. Pettengill 
 
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. 
– Ludwig Von Mises 
 
War is a way of shattering to pieces...materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses... too intelligent. 
– George Orwell, "1984" 
 
No war is inevitable until it breaks out. 
– A. J. P. Taylor 
 
"This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying... Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one and then you turn into a Democrat. A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment."

- Garrison Keillor
 
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. 
– Marquis de Sade 
 
'I've never seen evidence Bush knows what the word 'freedom' means, but evidence he's against it accumulates every day of the year.' - Grandma and Grandpa
 
The voice of protest...is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. 
– Charles Eliot Norton 
 
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. 
– Abraham Lincoln 
 
America makes gods on earth of those who don’t produce anything tangible and it grinds into poverty the majority, branding the hardest working as losers. - Bill Smith
 
"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." George Bush, Sr., in a June 1992 interview with the late Sarah McClendon.
 

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand
 
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
– William Ralph Inge 
 
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. 
– Michael Servetus 
 
If peace...only had the music and pagaentry of war, there'd be no wars. 
– Sophie Kerr 
 
Nations of eternal war [expend] all their energies. . . in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. 
– Thomas Jefferson 
 
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. 
– H. L. Mencken 
 
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - U.S. Constitution
 
What is more immoral than war? 
– Marquis de Sade 
 
'When all is considered the most outrageous thing is not the fact that people are criticizing the administration, it's the fact that nobody is being held accountable for misleading the nation into war. - Paul Krugman, NYT
 
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. 
– Thomas Jefferson 
 
Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances. 
– Thomas Sowell 
 
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. 
– General Douglas MacArthur

Only the winners decide what were war crimes. 
– Gary Wills

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? 
– Oriana Fallaci 

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. 
– Ronald Reagan 

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. 
– Davy Crockett 

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. 
– Martin Luther King, Jr. 

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS!
- Gandhi

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime
- Ernest Hemingway

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it
- George Orwell

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
-- John F. Kennedy

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (Farewell Address to the Nation)

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely,
so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it. - Goebbels

When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect George Bush to f*** it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did. - John Kerry

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.
- Wally O'Dell, CEO of electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators. - Adolph Hitler

What shall we do with the worst president and greatest traitor in American history, the most dangerous terrorist on the planet, the phony Texan moron who likes to wrap himself in the American flag? - jail4bush.org

I will continue to defend myself even if you call me a terrorist. - Free Speech. TV

Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary... does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal. - Benito Mussolini

The United States is putting together a Constitution now for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It's served us well for 200 years, and we don't appear to be using it anymore, so what the hell? - Jay Leno

“The Constitution has been overtaken by events, by time and is no longer relevant to a modern society.” - Rep. Henry Hyde

WE phoned George Bush to wish him a Happy New Year and while he was on the phone Mike asked him: "What is the capital of England?" Mr Bush hesitated, so Mike said: "I'll give you a clue. It's where all the major decisions that effect England are made." "That's easy," replied the President. "Washington." - people.co.uk

"Freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The US government will lead the American people - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life." - Prediction made by Osama Bin Laden one month after the terrorist attacks of 9-11.

"Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace." - the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14, 2002

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -
Theodore Roosevelt

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. - David Rockefeller, prior to September 11

I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building.- Louie Caachioli, New York Fire Department, about the WTC's South Tower, People Weekly 9/24/01

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison

I love my country far too much to be a nationalist - Ponz

The day we know the truth and cease to speak it, is the day we begin to die." - Martin Luther King

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs. - Sandra Bernhard, February 25 Washington Post online chat.

We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Bush is like a thief who invites you to ride in your own car after he has stolen it - Bill

The only way they could win the election was to stop the counting in Florida. - President Clinton

In this democracy of 281 million citizens, the people have spoken, all five of them - Rick

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine, 1777

"America has held it's last free election" - Russian journalist

This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. - U.S. President Rutherford (Rutherfraud) B. Hayes 1878

It shows that election fraud is not only a third world phenomena - African journalist

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything - Stalin

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. - KARL ROVE, White House chief advisor to Bush

We will f*** him. Do you hear me? We will f*** him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever f***ed him! - KARL ROVE, White House chief advisor to Bush speaking of his plans for Gore during the 2000 election

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." - H. L. Mencken

Republicans call patients bill of rights, medical care, any financial assistance, socialism - Todd

Senior Reagan aides who went to prison - 30 Senior Clinton aides who went to prison - 1 - Slash

I think things are balanced. We had Clinton/Gore with peace, plenty of jobs and an unheard of prosperity balanced with Bush/Cheney with deficit spending,
unemployment, and war. - Slash

Junior's legacy; I destroyed Peace and Prosperity. Gotta get your Bush priorities in order. You're either a multi-millionaire and a friend, or you're just a common piece of shit - his dyslexic Jesus advised him, "god made so many poor people, cause he hates them". - coil

"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'. You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, and he can't get anything done while he's up there. - Ralph

In third world countries they have no Social Security, sick and disabled people simply die by the road - Tim

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state. - Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth R-ID

Power corrupts, but absolute power is a blast. - Bush White House staff

In order for the American people to be convinced that the world is a bad place Bush and his handlers must make it a bad place justifying the military industrial complex and the formation of a 'home land security' police state. - an editor

Cynics tell us that money has completely corrupted our politics, that in the last election big corporations basically bought themselves a government that will serve their interests. - Unknown Journalist

When is bush going to apologize to the world for using young American soldiers lives, and human lives, and the environment to profit himself and the corrupt corporate elite? - Unknown contributor

John Mitchell (remember him?) said during the Watergate hearings that "This country will swing so far to the right in the next 20 years you won't even recognize it". - Darth Gator

Mark my words: it is only a matter of time before the reality of the prisoner boxcars with shackles begin picking up and delivering their prey in earnest to the FEMA/military deathcamps, and the grim and acrid smoke of terminated fellow Americans begins to fill the skies over this nation as neighbor spies upon neighbor, and many innocent are branded unjustly as "potential terrorists" and rounded up and taken away to never be seen again. - Pam Schuffert

"Total Information Awareness" may be the closest thing to a true "Big Brother" program that has ever been seriously contemplated in the United States." - ACLU

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini Encyclopedia Italiana

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. And then you win. - Gandhi

Republicans are pushing the most radical assault on the environment in modern times. But history warns of catastrophe for leaders who trust ideology over science.
- Glenn Scherer

Americans spend thirty two billion dollars on weight loss programs each year, that's three times the amount of money needed to end world hunger. - TV news

The old dogs have a new trick, criminalize the symptoms while spreading the disease. - Free speech TV

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. - Adolf Hitler

If Americans win a war (not just against Saddam Hussein but the longer-term struggle) and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything. - Lance Morrow, Time

I see all the dead Iraqi children. Boy, do I feel safe. - Seen on a T-shirt

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. - Comedian Mort Sahl

The myth is that World War II ended with the defeat of fascism, but what really happened is that fascism got a grip on those fighting it, and is becoming increasingly pervasive and powerful. - Constitution Society

In 1946 the judges at Nuremberg who tried the Nazi leaders for war crimes left no doubt about what they regarded as the gravest crimes against humanity. The most serious was unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state that offered no threat to one’s homeland. Then there was the murder of civilians, for which responsibility rested with the 'highest authority.' - John Pilger"

I'm amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is about, that people would hate us. . . like most Americans, I just can't believe it. Because I know how good we are - Bush

"Let's be blunt. The real agenda of the new conservatives is nothing less than the destruction of democracy in the United States of America. - Thom Hartmann

Brother and sister traitors, loony radicals and conspiracy wackos, it's time to sit back and enjoy the Bush administration's 'lovely' war on Iraq and stop dreaming about impeachment, a full investigation of 9/11 or putting corporate criminals behind bars. Don't you understand that 'the adults are now in charge' and if we 'kiddies' don't shape up and stop mouthing off, we will be harshly dealt with? Can you say 'gulag' or 'concentration camp?' How about 'firing squad? - Bev Conover, Online Journal

America speaks to the world of equality, but there can be no equality between a millionaire and a beggar - Fidel Castro

I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. - Mahatma Gandhi

When all is considered the most outrageous thing is not the fact that people are criticizing the administration; it's the fact that nobody is being held accountable for misleading the nation into war. - Paul Krugman, NYT

As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. - Rumsfeld February 12, 2002

Any sources and methods of intelligence will remain guarded in secret. My administration will not talk about how we gather intelligence, if we gather intelligence, and what the intelligence says. That's for the protection of the American people. - President George W. Bush, New York Times, Sept. 14, 2001

George Bush, he’s bad on drugs, he’s sick mentally and physically, if he was a dog he’d be shot. He’s a scumbag. That’s why he won’t be re-elected. He’s not morally, physically or mentally fit to be President. - Christopher Hitchens, columnist for The Nation, Washington Editor for Harpers

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case. - Thomas Paine, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States

I see people rising up, resisting, gearing up to fight the great good fight again, for decency, freedom, for the poor, for the earth.
- Anne Lamott

Wouldn't you like to buy Bush for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth. - Unknown

Where are we all going and what are we doing in this hand basket? - Bumper sticker

Profit or death they cry, but what if it's always death with or without profit? - free Speech TV