"A government that is strong enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." ~Thomas Jefferson "[The Union] depends for its continuance on the free consent and will of the sovereign people of each state, and when that consent and will is withdrawn on either part, their Union is gone." ~ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 13 November 1860
"[Lincoln] was an infidel of the radical type... never mentioned the name of Jesus, except to scorn and detest the idea of a miraculous conception." ~ William Herndon, law partner to Abraham Lincoln
"Mr. Lincoln had no hope and no faith in the usual acceptance of those words." ~ Mary Todd Lincoln
"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." ~ George Washington
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." ~ Abraham Lincoln (quoted by Joseph Lewis in Lincoln the Freethinker)
"The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing." ~ Joseph Sobran
"If we were wrong in our contest, then the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was a grave mistake and the revolution to which it led was a crime. If Washington was a patriot, Lee cannot have been a rebel." ~ Lt. General Wade Hampton, C.S.A.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"If you are true Southerners, reach back to your Southern roots for enough fortitude to stand up to the extortionist NAACP attacking our proud Southern heritage since 1991. The best answer, I believe, goes back to Nancy Reagan: "Just Say No." Our heritage cannot be saved if they see us as weaklings. During Lincoln's War the South had 104,000 deserters. Think before you join them. Lincoln had 200,000 plus." ~ Elijah Coleman
"This is only one among the many proofs I had witnessed of the fact, that the prejudice of color is not nearly so strong in the South as in the North. [In the South] it is not at all uncommon to see the black slaves of both sexes, shake hands with white people when they meet, and interchange friendly personal inquiries; but at the north I do not remember to have witnessed this once; and neither in Boston, New York, or Philadelphia would white persons generally like to be seen shaking hands and talking familiarly with blacks in the streets." ~ James S. Buckingham, abolitionist
"The Union of Sovereign States, each state deriving its powers from its own people, and the federal government having only those powers granted it by the states, ended when Lincoln was allowed to eviscerate the Constitution. Lincoln did not save the Union, the Union that the delegates founded in 1788. A new Union was created in the 1860's with power over the states, power usurped by deception and maintained by force." ~ Francis W. Springer, War for What?
"If...a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"I would rather be a private in Virginia's army than a general in any army that was going to coerce her." ~ Maj. General J. E. B. Stuart, C.S.A.
"The truth is this: If only one man among all of the rest will not break...then all of them, all those who so despise men that they believe all men can be broken and all men can be bought, all of them have failed and all of them are defeated, because one alone destroys them and one alone can give heart to all other men." ~ Robert Crichton, The Secret of Santa Vittoria
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." ~ James Madison, 1792
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." ~ George Mason, 14 June 1788, in the Virginia Convention of the ratification of the Constitution
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Instead of friends, I see in those states of Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame." ~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy
"If this cause that is so dear to my heart is doomed to fail, then I pray heaven may let me fall with it, while my face is turned toward the enemy and my right arm battling for that which I know to be right." ~ Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, C.S.A.
"The Constitution has admitted the jurisdiction of the United States within the limits of the several States only so far as the delegated powers authorize; beyond that they are intruders, and may rightfully be expelled." ~ John C. Calhoun
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ~ George Washington
"A question settled by violence, or with disregard to the law, must remain unsettled forever." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
"Firearms are second only in importance to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." ~ George Washington
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
"The national culture of the United States is violent and profane, coarse and rude, cynical and deviant, and repugnant to the Southern people and to every people with authentic Christian sensibilities." ~ Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence
"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue." ~ John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." ~ Mark Twain
"At a time when liberty is under attack, decency under assault, the family is under siege, and life itself is threatened, the good will arise in truth; they will arise in truth with the very essence and substance of their lives; they will arise in truth though they face opposition by fierce subverters; they will arise in truth never shying from the Standard of Truth, never shirking from the Author of Truth." ~ Henry Laurens (1724 - 1792)
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." ~Bertrand de Jouvenal
"The United Nation’s goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day." ~Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier, November 1991
"[The IRS is] an evil monster that would devour the Constitution, and provide the money for an incredible array of unconstitutional bureaucracies attempting to control every aspect of one’s life. Today, the IRS is unquestionably the most morally depraved organization in America. It dares, for example, to condemn efforts to avoid its clutches as 'tax-cheating.' Yet it is logically impossible to cheat a thief. The moral categories of 'lying' and 'cheating' do not apply when one has a gun at his head. Just as no one has a moral obligation to tell a thug in an alley about the $100 bill tucked in his sock when the thief demands at knife point you give him all your money, so no one has a moral obligation of any kind whatsoever to disclose to IRS thugs all of his or her assets. The obligation is purely prudential: you give the mugger your wallet because you don’t want a knife in your ribs, and you pay the IRS for essentially the same reason." ~Dr. Jack Wheeler, The Death of the Root of All Evil, Strategic Investment, 23 July 1997
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." ~Benjamin Franklin
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." ~Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice, 1952
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." ~Dresden James
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." ~John Quincy Adams
"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them." ~William Faulkner
"In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story -- the side that reflects poorly on the government -- somehow gets lost." ~Richard J. Maybury, The Abe Lincoln Hoax
"Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather." ~Official U.S. Policy on Confederate Prisoners of War (Preamble to the H.R. 97, passed by both Houses of Congress)
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." ~Cicero
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?" ~Benjamin Franklin, to Thomas Paine
"The worst fears of those Boys in Gray are now a fact of American life - a Federal government completely out of control." ~Professor Jay Hoar of Maine, in a personal conversation with author Walter Donald Kennedy
"I am not one of those who, clinging to the old superstitions that the Will of Heaven is revealed in the immediate results of trial by combat, fancy that right must be on the side of might, and speak of Appomattox as a judgment of God. I do not forget that a Suwaroff triumphed and Kosciusko fell; that Nero wielded the scepter of an empire and a Paul was beheaded; that a Herod was crowned and Christ crucified; instead of accepting the defeat of the South as a divine verdict against her, I regard it as but another instance of 'truth on the scaffold and wrong on the throne.'" ~Rev. Dr. Robert C. Cave, Confederate Memorial Day, 1894
"Let us be certain that our children know that the war between the States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery, as some would have them to believe, but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought were warriors tried and true, who bore the flags of a Nation's trust, and fell in a cause, though lost, still just, and died for me and you." ~J. Taylor Ellyson
"Lincoln's war implied, and the Gettysburg Address set to words, a firm message to the States of the Union - 'I love you all, and if you leave me, I'll hunt you down and kill you.' The Address was not the sagely comments of a wise statesman, rather the vain, obsessive rantings of a power-hungry demon engaging in a blood-thirsty mission of self-aggrandizement, no matter the volume of corpses required to attain it." ~Lewis Goldburg
"There are two views of history: (1) History happens by accident or (2) It is planned. The general public is taught that history happens by accident. However, the upper echelons...know that history is planned." ~R. E. McMaster, Jr., The Power of Total Perspective
"I enlisted with the hope and desire of rendering aid to the great and glorious cause of Southern independence, prompted by principle, religiously believing that the time had arrived when we were justifiable in resisting Northern aggression, and even at the expense of this once unparalleled Republic. As for my part I don't want to survive a subjugation of my country." ~Colonel J. Goodner, CSA
"The amount of burning, stealing and plundering done by our army makes me ashamed of it. I would rather quit the service if I could, because I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism... You and I and every commander must go through the war, justly charged with crimes at which we blush." ~General William T. Sherman, USA, in camp on Big Black River, Mississippi, writing to Grant at Vicksburg, Federal Official Records (O.R.) vol. XXIV, pt. III 574
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights." ~H. L. Mencken
"What then, is 'racism'? It is considerably more than any dictionary is likely to say. It is any opposition by whites to official policies of racial preference for non-whites. It is any preference by whites for their own people and culture. It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people. It is any unwillingness to be pushed aside. It is, in short, any of the normal aspirations of people-hood that have defined nations since the beginning of history - but only so long as the aspirations are those of whites." ~Jared Taylor
“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy...and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure...” ~John Adams
"It is highly probable that had a popular election been held at any time during the year following the 4th of July, 1862, on the question of continuing the war, or arresting it on the best attainable terms, a majority would have voted for peace; while it is highly probable that a still larger majority would have voted against emancipation." ~Horace Greeley, New York Tribune
"The parties in this conflict are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists, Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on one side and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground, Christianity and Atheism the Combatants, and the progress of humanity the stake." ~James Henley Thornwell
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [excessive license] which the ambitious call, and (the) ignorant believe to be liberty.” ~Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment
"Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long. I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced. In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites. I felt that the Negro would be the one to suffer for this in the end. Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property. " ~Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
"Gentlemen, Niggers and cotton caused this war, and I wish they were both in Hell!" ~General William T. Sherman, USA
"The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Ignorance and despotism seem made for each other." ~Thomas Jefferson, 1796
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." ~Thomas Jefferson
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." ~Thomas Jefferson
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." ~John Hay, 1872
"Democracy is a noose around Freedom's neck, gradually choking the dreams our founding fathers once had for this country...democracy becomes a great threat to our freedom and the overall health of our country. Excessive taxation is only one of the symptoms of...democracy... Through excessive taxation, we have all become slaves to our government. Excessive taxation creates a cannibalistic economy that feeds upon itself. Woe be it to those who are still here, when the plate of taxation is barren and has created an economy that has nothing left to feed on." ~Steven Earl Newberry, 15 November 2002
"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditures. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete." ~Benjamin Disraeli, British House of Commons, 1850
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." ~Plato, circa 400 BC
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." ~Adolf Hitler, Nazi tyrant
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.” ~H. L. Mencken
"Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent." ~John Shelton Reed
"Never a mere artifact, the battle-flag lives on as emblematic wisdom that is both timeless and timely. Possessing extraordinary powers, it serves as a spiritual touchstone, a divining rod, a litmus test, a measure of healthy instinct, and as a gauge of both political and personal wisdom. In fact, you can know a man, in all his depth or shallowness, by his attitude toward the Southern banner." ~Dr. Winston L. McCuen
"If I had a thousand lives I would lose them all before I would betray my friends or the confidence of my informer." ~Sam Davis, young Confederate soldier shortly before he was hanged for refusing to betray a friend
"Among the unconstitutional and dictatorial acts performed by Lincoln were initiating and conducting a war by decree for months without the consent or advice of Congress; declaring martial law; confiscating private property; suspending habeas corpus; conscripting the railroads and censoring telegraph lines; imprisoning as many as 30,000 Northern citizens without trial; deporting a member of Congress, Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, after Vallandigham - a fierce opponent of the Morrill tariff - protested imposition of an income tax at a Democratic Party meeting in Ohio; and shutting down hundreds of Northern newspapers." ~James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems under Lincoln, 1951
"There are two world histories. One is the official and full of lies, destined to be taught in schools – the other is the secret history, which harbors the true causes and occurrences." ~Honore de Balzac
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing." ~Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher, Essays, 1891
"Every country has the government it deserves." ~Joseph de Maistre
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power." ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." ~Claire Wolfe
"It is stated in books and papers that Southern children read and study that all the blood shedding and destruction of property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free Government and the welfare of the human family.
"As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes." ~Colonel Richard Henry Lee, CSA
"Should the Northern States continue willfully and deliberately to circumvent federal law, the South would no longer be bound to observe the [constitutional] compact. A bargain cannot be broken on one side and still bind the other side." ~Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts
"The history of an oppressed people lies hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myth of its conquerers." ~Meridel Le Sueur
"Half of the Supreme Court justices are of the mind that the United States Constitution is a living document. The Soviet Union’s Constitution paralleled much of what is in the U.S. Constitution, except that it could be changed to accommodate the exigencies of the moment. In other words, Soviet courts interpreted a living constitution, which is in reality no constitution. Ignoring the wisdom of its drafters, the liberal members think of the Constitution as an anachronism that stifles change - a barrier to social fine-tuning. Although they won’t admit it, their belief is that the Constitution should be viewed under glass - a historical memento, not the key foundation block of the Republic. "These black-robed termites undermine the Republic’s pilings by creating rather than interpreting the Constitution." ~Joseph H. Kress
"If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." ~Mark Twain, 1866
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another." ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
"Government is essentially immoral." ~Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, 1851
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." ~Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
"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, The Nature of Government
"Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian." ~Heywood Broun
"Good Government is an oxymoron." ~Legare
“The North, it was said, was enriching itself at the expense of the South. The Yankees were jealous of a style and distinction to which vulgar commercialism could never attain. They had no right to use the Federal Constitution which the great Virginians Washington and Madison had largely founded, in order to bind the most famous states to their dictates. They maligned and insulted a civilization more elevated in manners, if not worldly wealth, than their own. They sought to impose the tyranny of their ideas upon states which had freely joined the Union for common purposes, and might as freely depart when those purposes had been fulfilled.
"Upon Lincoln’s call to arms to coerce the seceding states Virginia made without hesitation the choice which she was so heroically to sustain. She would not fight on the issue of slavery, but stood firm on the constitutional ground that every state in the Union enjoyed sovereign rights. On this principle Virginians denied the claim of the Federal Government to exercise coercion.” ~Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples
"I grieve for posterity, for American principles and American liberty." ~General Robert E. Lee, CSA
[T]he threat to liberty in the 21st century is the same as it has been throughout mankind's history. That threat is use of the coercive powers of government, under the color of law, to take the rightful property of some people and give to others, and the forcible imposition of the will of one group of people on another group. Such acts, most often done in the name of good, explain the ugliest portions of human history. The question is whether America will degenerate into what has been mankind's standard fare throughout history. We have yet to see the kind of arbitrary control, abuse and violation of basic human rights seen elsewhere. But if we ask ourselves which way are we heading, tiny steps at a time: toward more personal liberty or toward greater government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter. We Americans face an awesome challenge and responsibility because if liberty dies here, it's probably dead for all places and all times. ~Dr Walter Williams
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” ~Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice appointed by the U.S. Constitution's principal author, James Madison, from his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." ~President Theodore Roosevelt
“There are new studies and new polls that strongly suggest that we are breeding increasingly stupid kids here in America. Like our tasteless tomatoes, they merely look good and healthy. But of course there is more than one way to test intelligence. So, while only 43% of our 17-year-olds know that the Civil War [sic] took place between 1850 and 1900, as opposed to, say, 1750-1800 or after 1950, they are very good at text-messaging. They also probably know the names of Britney Spears’ kids, which is more than Ms. Spears does at any given moment, but they have no idea why December 7, 1941, was a day of infamy. They also don’t know what ‘infamy’ means. What makes the situation even more pathetic is that these kids, for the most part, have a terrifically high opinion of themselves. To be fair, nothing much has ever been asked of them, let alone demanded, and yet they are constantly being told how special they are. Hardly any of them are expected to do chores, and as teachers have been ordered by craven school boards to pass along any student who’s breathing, D’s are frowned upon and F’s are verboten. As a result, 18-year-olds, who can barely count up to 18 without taking off their shoes, automatically get their high school diplomas... However, the greatest danger of this backsliding into the abyss of ignorance, this 21st century version of the Dark Ages, where emotions and self-satisfaction constantly trump logic and intelligence, is that Democrats may never again lose a presidential election.” ~Burt Prelutsky
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'guilty.'" ~President Theodore Roosevelt
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.” ~Samuel Adams
"Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat." ~ Ancient Greek proverb Translation: "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
“Before government hijacked charity in the form of the New Deal and Great Society, compassion and charity began at home. People were to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit prisoners, care for widows and orphans and love their enemies. Those were biblical commands to individuals, not government. Democrat politicians see things differently. Apparently believing there aren’t enough caring people, they want compassion to originate in Washington, depriving it of its true meaning. They define compassion as big and ever-growing government and a guaranteed check forever with no expectation—or requirement—the recipient will ever better his or her circumstances.” ~Cal Thomas
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency." ~H. L. Mencken
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." ~Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
"The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty." ~Karl Marx, father of Marxism, 1861
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. " ~Winston Churchill
"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death." ~Heinrich Heine
"I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all White men who have lived here like I have must learn and know: that these individuals are a sub-race. They have neither the mental or emotional abilities to equate or share equally with White men in any functions of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring unto them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: White the superior, and they the inferior. For whenever a White man seeks to live among them as their equals, they will destroy and devour him, and they will destroy all his work. And so for any existing relationship or any benefit to this people, let White men, from anywhere in the world, who would come to help Africa, remember that you must maintain this status: you the master and they the inferior, like children whom you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you." ~Dr. Albert Schweitzer, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for peace in his 1961 book, From African Notebook
"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ~Winston Churchill
“One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue of secession, making it possible for the federal government to increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees. A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly described as wars of independence... Federal usurpation goes beyond anything the Constitution’s framers would have imagined. James Madison, explaining the constitution, in Federalist Paper 45, said, ‘The powers delegated... to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.’ Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not ‘subordinate’ to the national government, but rather the two are ‘coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.’... One of the more disgusting sights for me to is to watch a president, congressman or federal judge take an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution, when in reality they either hold constitutional principles in contempt or they are ignorant of those principles.” ~Walter Williams
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." ~President Theodore Roosevelt
"Our poor country has fallen a prey to the conqueror. The noblest cause ever defended by the sword is lost. The noble dead that sleep in their shallow though honored graves are far more fortunate than their survivors. I thought I had sounded the profoundest depth of human feeling, but this is the bitterest hour of my life.” ~Colonel John Singleton Mosby, CSA
"I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth - men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view - to enrich themselves." ~Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, in an interview shortly after the war
"As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union." ~Maj. General John B. Gordon, CSA, from his book Causes of the Civil War
"A nation which does not remember what was yesterday does not know where it is today." ~General Robert E. Lee, CSA