Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.” – John Stuart Mill
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.” – John Stuart Mill
“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
“Life is not a struggle. It’s a wiggle.” – Peter McWilliams
“The obvious lack of an educated citizenry in this country is likely the single most important contributing factor to the overt tyranny being implemented across this once free nation.” – Mac Slavo
“And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.” Mark 11:15-17 (KJV)
“he hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: how goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!” Numbers 24:4-5 (KJV)
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” – George Mason
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” – James Madison
“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” – John Locke
“There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.” – Martin Luther King
“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Matthew 23:13-15 (KJV)
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)
“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.” – John F. Kennedy
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson