curated news for friends & family™... because friends don't let friends go uninformed! ™
curated news for friends & family™
( culture / quotes / politics )"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes." -- Josef Stalin ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis Brandeis "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"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 citiz... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." -- George Washington... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists.'" - Thomas Sowell ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." "There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety." -... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )" "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt, and a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness." "A small body of determined spirits... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles." "Violence does not always and necessarily lunge straight f... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"Polling: The gateway political drug to misinformation, mistakes and malfeasance." -- Christian Josi This was actually just a headline, but I thought it was great all by itself. Read the rest of the article at pjmedia.com ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism.&qu... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." "All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.&quo... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.&quo... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the econ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." -- Plato ... read more
( culture / quotes / politics )"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire Good quote, but apparently not spoken by Voltaire.See answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid20120826085842AAwFmIv NEW! Random ... read more
