Monday, August 22, 2005

Qoutes to make you think


"To initiate a war of
aggression ... is not only an international crime, it is the supreme
international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that
it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

International Military Tribunal
at Nuremberg, Germany - 1946

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"Look, if you think any
American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're
stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid."

Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965

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" The news and truth are
not the same thing. "

Walter Lippmann

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"This [the U.S. Constitution]
is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end
in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to
need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

Benjamin Franklin

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"America will never be
destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Abraham Lincoln

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"If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be
wrapped in an American flag."

Huey Long

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"fascism - A system of
government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right,
typically through the merging of state and business leadership,
together with belligerent nationalism."

The American Heritage Dictionary,
1983

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