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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

~Voltaire

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”

~Ambrose Bierce

“Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country”

~Edward Bernays, assistant to William Paley, founder of CBS

“If you are looking for the revolutionary, go look in the mirror.”

~Maxwell Black

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”

~George Washington, 1787

“Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.”

~Thomas Jefferson, 1812

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”

~George W. Bush, June 18, 2002

“War is Peace”

~Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984

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“You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.”

~David Lloyd George

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

~Agatha Christie

“Were civilians killed? Possibly. If they were killed, it was because they were in the vicinity of a military target.”

~Lieutenant Colonel Dave Lapan at the Pentagon, who was asked about civilians killed in Afghanistan.

“The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.”

~Harry Truman after the bombing of Hiroshima

“The claim that smart bombs and technology now enable pinpoint bombing is very much a fraud. They discovered after the Gulf War that 93 percent of the bombs turned out not to be so-called smart bombs and the “smart” bombs often missed their targets. Overall, 70 percent of our bombs missed their targets.”

~Howard Zinn

“Democracy isn’t [about] falling in line behind the president. Democracy is for people to think independently, be skeptical of government, look around and try to find out what’s going on. And if they find out that government is deceiving them, to speak out as loudly as they can. That’s democracy.”

~Howard Zinn

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“The Persian Gulf crisis is a rare opportunity to forge new bonds with old enemies (the Soviet Union). Out of these troubled times a New World Order can emerge under a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.”

~George HW Bush, September 11, 1990

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

~David Rockefeller, September 14, 1994

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”

~James Madison

“Fascism will come to America in the guise of National Security”

~Jim Garrison (Atty. General of New Orleans)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our Banking and Monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a Revolution before tomorrow morning.”

~Henry Ford

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

~Henry Kissinger

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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’
But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”

~Albert Einstein

“Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched.”

~George Bush Senior (speaking in an interview with Washington Journalist, Sarah McClendon, in December 1992)

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

~Bill Hicks

“Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.”

~Senator J. William Fulbright

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“The point of public relations slogans like ‘Support our troops’ is that they don’t mean anything… That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.”

~Noam Chomsky

“Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can’t do that, to shut Up.”

~Bill O’Reilly, Fox News

“To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That’s just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.”

~Michael Parenti

“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America’s official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”

~Mark Hertzgaard

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