Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Monday, November 12, 2012

We Were Warned 2,000 Years Ago


We Were Warned 2,000 Years Ago

“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 carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, 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 the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

~Marcus Tullius Cicero~


"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."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

~ Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels ~

“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 Becomes The Greatest Enemy of The State.”
~ Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels ~
(Nazi Propaganda Minister & Hitler's Successor as Chancellor of Germany.)

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

“The Amount of Tyranny You WILL Have ... IS,
The Exact Amount of Tyranny, YOU Are Willing To Put-Up With.”
~ Thomas Jefferson ~

~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

                  THEY TRIED TO WARN YOU ...
“In the counsels 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.” 
~ President, (and 5-Star General) Dwight D. Eisenhower, February 1961 ~ 


~ Thomas Jefferson ~

“If people let government decide, what foods they eat and what medicines they take, 
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state, as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
~ Thomas Jefferson ~

~ John Adams ~

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net ... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~ John Adams (Address to the Military - October 11, 1798 ~

- Thomas Jefferson -

“What country can preserve its liberties, 
if its rulers are not warned from time to time 
that its people preserve the spirit of resistance?” 
- Thomas Jefferson -