Lando 
Posted on 09/29/2005 7:40:52 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
— Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857
Political corruption begins with every voter who votes his pocketbook instead of for what's good for the country. There is little difference between the selling of his vote by an elected official and the selling of his vote by a voter, to whatever candidate promises him some benefit.
— Jon Roland, speech during his campaign for Congress, 1974
In politics nothing gets done until you first create a channel of corruption.
— Jesse Cuellar, cynical observer of the political scene, 1982
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned.
— Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14, 1968, vol. 114, p. 31636.
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
— Justice Louis D. Brandeis dissenting,Olmstead v. United States
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
— Voltarine de Cleyre
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. — Herbert Hoover.
Lando
Does this mean you've reached the end of the internet and if so, what did you find there?
Lando,
Thank you I always look forward to your posts.
Congratulations on being so informative!!
Wow. Congratulations.
Even though I am a newbie poster, I've appreciated your threads for many lurking years.
Lando
Mods, please pull this thread, just to jack with him.
lol. congratulations. I'm at 1,376 threads
The Brandeis quote is pretty ironic, considering the source.
Wouldn't that make you an old convert?
Al Gore???????
I'm guessing that it would be porn...
;~ )
I think Ive started one thread. It was a vanity way back when I was a newbie.
I survived.
Lando
It's Bush's fault.
Lando
"I'm guessing that it would be porn..."
Midget porn.
Lando
Nope Ive always been gimpy runningwater (My indian name)
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