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"ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS THAT GOOD MEN DO NOTHING" - Edmund Burke
..."for some time now I have never said what I believed and never believed what I said; and if indeed I do sometimes tell the truth, I hide it behind so many lies that it is hard to find"....
Niccolò Machiavelli to Francesco Guicciardini, Carpi, 17 May 1521.
"And the L-rd G-d watches over all."
"By three things the world is sustained - justice, truth and peace." Rabbi Shimon, Son of Gamliel
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." Thomas Jefferson
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." Thomas Jefferson
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that G-d is just." Thomas Jefferson
"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government?"
"When the people fear the government, Tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master."
Thomas Jefferson
"Educate and inform the whole mass of people for they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson