The Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You speech by John F. Kennedy
It reads better than I would have expected. It may be why all of those lefties and innocents fell for him. Others failed to be charmed as we discovered one day in 1963.

 

The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration. ex Quotes & Jokes Of The Day

 

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

 

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.
George Orwell

 

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Dresden James - an odd name which might well be a pseudonym.

 

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. "God in the Dock" (1948)
CS Lewis

 

"I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."

Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"

Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

On Marxism and other Boondoggles
And as Professor Kevin MacDonald would clearly hold, the marketing of utmost importance is to the importuning minds of the Marxist elites themselves. One must delude ones self in this modern world, before one can successfully delude the masses.

 

"Nah, adjust the National Debt by normalizing it to seasonally adjusted constant dollars, express revenues in projected income, make expenditures less expected return on investment, and bail out the Texas Savings and Loan in unmarked 100's - remember, ten percent goes to John Connally. Don't give the people a deal they can't refuse; give them a deal they can't understand."
Uncle Al

 

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Lord Northcliffe

 

"Nowadays a college professor can talk about maintaining the purity and genetic line of his pet Cocker Spaniel, but if he expressed public concern about the precious genetic makeup of his own children and grandchildren, he would become a pariah in academia."-David Duke

Usually it is a government that imposes control over the population. Extreme governments of the right seek absolute control over behavior, and those of the left, over thought. But it is usually the government. Fred speaks - Diversity Homogenized

 

Errare humanum est
ex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exempli_gratia#E
It comes from Seneca the Younger. The full quote is "errare humanum est perseverare diabolicum": "to err is human; to persist is of the Devil".
but
To err is human, to forgive divine.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander Pope

 

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Epitaphs of War, (1914-1918) and Kipling - he lost a son to the Western Front.

Misattributed

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Variant 1: To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Variant 2: If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

What Bismarck really said was "Je weniger die Leute darüber wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie nachts.", in translation, "The lesser [ sic ] the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night".

Bismarck

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck - attributed

 

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

 

"All wars are economic in origin."
Bernard Baruch, big time Jewish financier
Truth USA

 

Veni, vidi, velcro...
I came, I saw, I stuck around


Ditching Diversity
For all their pompous moralizing, our secular elites are fundamentally amoral, their ideologies founded in nothing but some half-remembered clichés from Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill.

 

Who is the custodian of the custodians? - Juvenal
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Translation: But who shall guard the guardians? VI, line 347 The original context is that a husband might lock his wife in the house to prevent her adulteries, but she is cunning and will start with the guards; hence, who guards the guards? The phrase has come to be applied broadly to people or organizations acting against dishonesty or corruption, esp. in public life.

 

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
--Ronald Reagan - attributed

 

I am beginning to believe that black people, no matter where in the world they are, are cursed with a genetic predisposition to steal, murder, and create mayhem.
Leighton Levy in the Jamaica Star commenting on Hurricane Katrina.

 

Conspiracy
30. All clandestine groups (whether the commercial-economic conspiracies we have been discussing, or the Secret Police ubiquitous these days in every nation) have a vested interest in spreading false conspiracy theories, for two reasons: (a) The more disinformation in circulation, the harder it is for outsiders to find out what is really going on, and (b) it is always handy to provide a scapegoat to distract people from what you are doing.
Robert Anton Wilson, Right where you are sitting now: Further tales of the Illuminati, 1982 as quoted at http://www.orlingrabbe.com/homepage.html

 

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57
Susan Sontag
She was a malicious Jew, full of hate and very competent manipulator. She makes one think that Adolf had a point.

 

Ariel Sharon:
"We control America"
Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.
- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, the well known mass murderer October 3, 2001.
From Radio Islam a hostile source and not necessarily right.

 

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace's Odes (iii 2.13). The line can be rendered in English as: "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." The line has been a commonplace in modern times throughout Europe. It was quoted by Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat immediately before his beheading on Tower Hill, London in 1747. It was much quoted in reference to the British Empire in the 19th century, particularly during the Boer War

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae" (in English—it is sweet to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland) was a frequent 19th century students' toast.

 

Franz Liszt
The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

Franz Liszt, as quoted in the second edition of The Gypsy in Music. Some dispute as to the authenticity of this quote exists, as this work was edited posthumously by his Catholic mistress and patron, Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein, whose anti-semitism was well-known. Liszt was known to have donated to Jewish charitable organisations in various countries and to support the works by such prominent Jewish artists as Giacomo Meyerbeer, Felix Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine and Charles Alkan — often in the face of anti-semitic criticism. Regarding Liszt as an anti-semite has been a popular misbelief for a long time — probably springing from his association with well-known anti-semites such as Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow and Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein. For further information read Liszt: v. 3. The final years, 1861-1886 (1996) by Alan Walker|.

These are unsourced but may be found if you care to look. They should stand on their own merits.

"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him."
H.L. Mencken

To be governed...is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A former Pentagon official said this week that before the start of the war in Iraq, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave the Bush administration a list of horribles, things he believed could go wrong, which the Bush administration apparently mistook for a to-do list. — Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all;
it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same
safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put
down dissent and originality." H. L. Mencken

 

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

In Defense of Women (1918)

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people
to be exactly like one another; ... in proportion as it is
efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind,
leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." John Stuart
Mill

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy;
because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can
bear taxation." ---John Marshall

America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these ‘isms’ wouldn’t to-day be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives. Winston Churchill New York Enquirer, August of 1936

"In a republic, accountability is indispensable. In a dictatorship, it is impermissible."~ anon

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime. — Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken

"Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion,
class assignment, dulled responses, emotional and intellectual
dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance — all of these
things are good training for permanent underclasses." John Taylor
Gatto

"The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of 'freedom'."~ Joe Sobran

"Free people can say "no". Free people can refuse demands for their money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the freedom to say "no". If someone demands that you do something and you can say "no" and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied" -- Michael Rivero

"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." Anonymous Texas A&M student

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them. — Charley Reese

"[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." -- Alexander Hamilton

"Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence." John Locke

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — EDWARD GIBBON [On ancient Athens]

"The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the
world. But how is... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if
the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other
persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at
the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without
committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay... If such a law
is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a
system." ---Frederic Bastiat

"The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of 'freedom'." ~ Joe Sobran spects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of 'freedom'." ~ Joe Sobran"To be governed…is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled – by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so." ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Errors & omissions, broken links, cock ups, over-emphasis, malice [ real or imaginary ] or whatever; if you find any I am open to comment.

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