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- Mon Nov 14, 2022 6:07 pm
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
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Re: Many Quotations to Come!
"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people-a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint...
- Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:30 am
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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A State erected on the basis of popular suffrage and equality in voting, is not only ignoble, it is precarious. Gabriele D' Annunzio (And this is one of my favorites) The struggle of our time is to concentrate, not dissipate; to renew our association with traditional wisdom; to reestablish a vital c...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:26 pm
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (The failure of the state to enforce its laws) and at the same time, tyranny-the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulatio...
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:16 pm
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: Could Caucasians Survive Explosive Decompression?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19369
Re: Could Caucasians Survive Explosive Decompression?
Well, and I know this is a belated response, but I was going through posts on the forum. As regards 2001 you may recall the scene where astronaut Frank Poole was killed by the computer (Hal) and his body drifted off. In the book, 3001-the last in the series-future astronauts find in deep space him a...
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:55 pm
- Forum: Mainstream Media
- Topic: Gab Founder and Black Rapper on the Jews
- Replies: 33
- Views: 27287
Re: Gab Founder and Black Rapper on the Jews
I am not sure you could call his wife White because they are of Armenian ancestry. Remember it was Robert Kardashian, who was one of the lawyers of OJ Simpson, that brought that dysfunctional family into the limelight. Would you consider the famous Palestinian model, Gigi Hadid, White?
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:25 pm
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alex de Tocqueville. A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax increase can escape the obligation to pay it. Alex de Tocqueville. As one digs deeper int...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:13 pm
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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Liberty indeed, though among the greatest of blessings, is not as great as that of protection; in as much as the end of the former is the progress and improvement of the race-while that of the latter is preservation and perpetuation. And hence, when the two come in conflict, liberty must, and ever o...
- Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:15 pm
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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...that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it or abolish it. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing govern...
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:57 am
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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The best of both sexes ought to be brought together as often as possible, the worse as seldom as possible if our herd is to reach the highest perfection. Plato, The Republic. Democracy is beautiful in theory, in practice it is a fallacy. Benito Mussolini A Posse Ad Esse- From Possibility to Actuality
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:52 am
- Forum: Great Quotations
- Topic: Many Quotations to Come!
- Replies: 129
- Views: 74194
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When the system speaks of democracy or praises democracy what the average person should realize is that when they say democracy they really mean financial oligarchy. That is how the system defines democracy. This is not a quote from anybody but just my observation. Communism had the dictatorship of ...