“Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism… 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…

“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.” David Edwards, British columnist. Source: Burning All Illusions, 1996
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“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” William Colby, (1920-1996). Former Director of the CIA. Source: in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See (2000), by Dave McGowan
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“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by…

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.” Napoleon Bonaparte, (1769-1821) French emperor, Source: Political Aphorisms (1848). Source Reference Napoleon Bonaparte Quote

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.” F. Lee Bailey, famous trial attorney. Source: Newsweek, 17 April 1967. Source Reference F. Lee Bailey Quote

“Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?” Jean-Baptiste Say, (1767-1832) French economist, businessman. Source: A Treatise on Political Economy, 1803. Source Reference Jean-Baptiste Say Quote

“The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.” James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist. Source Reference James Russell Lowell Quote

“Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms.  They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.” Charles T. Sprading, (1871-1959) Libertarian activist, writer. Source: Freedom and its…

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story,…

“…As a deeply religious person, it’s also unChristian to me.” Chelsea Clinton, in a Sirius interview, speaking about banning abortion. Source Reference Chelsea Clinton: ‘As a Deeply Religious Person,’ Banning Abortions ‘Is UnChristian to Me’

“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.” Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)…