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Are you aware by May of 2008 the law will require you to carry a national identification card?

Are you aware that there are plans being developed to have all Americans embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) computer chip under their skin so they can be tracked wherever they go?

Are you aware the Supreme Court has ruled that the government has no authority to impose a direct unapportioned tax on the labor of the American people, and the 16th Amendment does not give the government that power?

Are you aware that computer voting machines can be rigged and there is no way to ensure that your vote is counted?

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"The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded."

Vance Packard, (1914-1996) American journalist, social critic, and author
Source: The People Shapers, 1977

"Infants do not induce, or cooperate in, their own procreation and birth; no more can those who are 'dead in trespasses and sins' prompt the quickening operation of God's Spirit within them."

J. I. Packer, (1926- )

"God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture."

J. I. Packer

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out."

Satchel Paige

"Toleration is not the *opposite* of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and ######, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences."

Thomas Paine, 'The Rights of Man', 1792

"War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game."

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most
rascally individuals of mankind."

"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently
fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong,
gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry
in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

'Common Sense', 1776

"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to
misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he
establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

Source: Dissertation on First Principles of Government, 7 July 1795

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price 
upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom 
should not be highly rated."

"Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose 
conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God,than all the crowned 
ruffians that ever lived."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the 
horizon."

"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from the [federal] government."

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government;
and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a
nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not
other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time
does not alter the nature and quality of either."

Rights of Man [1791-1792]

"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no
distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes
our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining
our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a
patron, the last a punisher."

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein 
that bleeds a nation to death."

1783 - from The American Crisis

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression: for 
if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself."


"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always 
a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"The Rights of Man", 1792

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the
liberty of appearing."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues
of supporting it."

"A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation."

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues."

"Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

The American Crisis, #1, December 23, 1776.

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow
brave by reflection. It is the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is
firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"Only God knows how to put a proper price on such a commodity as liberty."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an
intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of
kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the
quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true..."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a
necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind.
If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of
Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is
dictated to it."

"A great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It
had its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It
existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished.
The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all parts of a
civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it
together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and
every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the
whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their laws; and the laws which
common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine,
society performs for itself almost every thing which is ascribed to government."

Rights of Man [1791-1792]

"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to suscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."

"The Age of Reason" 1793

"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant... It has never yet been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge."

Thomas Paine

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"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."

Alfred Painter

"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny."

Michael Parenti, (1933- ) political scientist, author

"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."

Michael Parenti

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"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can
divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener."

Arvo Part, (1935- ) ComposerTOP

"Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by
commanding his followers to lay down their lives."

Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and theologian (1623-1662)

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. Mental trouble was
never known to arise from such quarters. Though they do not cost much yet they accomplish
much. They make other people good natured. They also produce their own image on men's
souls, and a beautiful image it is."

Blaise Pascal

"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people
see no difference between men."

Blaise Pascal

"Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself
and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole
human race."

Blaise Pascal

"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me
because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel
with mine, though I have none with him?"

Blaise Pascal, Pensees (1660)

"Justice without strength is powerless, strength without justice is tyrannical...
Therefore, unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just."

Blaise Pascal

"It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the
understanding, but the understanding through the heart...."

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

"Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves
except through Jesus Christ."

Blaise Pascal, Les Pensees

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."

Blaise Pascal

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction."

Blaise Pascal

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth."

Blaise Pascal

"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him...."

Blaise Pascal

"I put it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not
be four friends left in the world."

Blaise Pascal

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness
will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960) Russian Author

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it
isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

Boris Pasternak

"I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind,
whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion
tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself."

Boris Pasternak
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"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it
to be so."

Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French scientist

"By chance, you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared."

Louis Pasteur

"According to Gestapo records... they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them."

Kort E. Patterson, Source: Port of Call, August/September 1999