1) On Free Enterprise
"Only when things are produced in quantity at the lowest cost and of the best quality and sold at the narrowest margin of profit can we hope for real prosperity." - Henry Ford
2) On Monopoly/MultiNational
Capitalism and Fascism
"Fascism should more
appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and
corporate power." (Benito Mussolini, Encyclopedia Italiana)
Comment: Today we
call this, “Public-Private Partnerships”
3) On Tyranny and Oppression
"If Tyranny and
Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign
enemy."
- James Madison, while a United States Congressman
Comment: Reference
the Iraq War and the Patriot Act of 2003!
4) On the Despotism of
the Private International Money Powers
"History records that the money changers have used
every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain
their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."--James
Madison
The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace
and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a
monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, (and) more selfish than bureaucracy. It
denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw Light upon
its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the
bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe...
corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign
by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in
the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln
Comment: Reference the National Banking Act of 1863 and the Federal Reserve Central Bank System enacted in 1913, and the source of our problems today
5)
Definition: "The New World Order”
Definition: “The New World Order is a world that has a super-national authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order."
- Willy Brandt, Former West German Chancellor
6) On Socialist “Equality”
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the
public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest'
supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the
interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and
rights of others. [This
conclusion parallels a similar quote from George Orwell in “The Animal Farm”;
i.e., all are equal, but some are more equal]
-Ayn Rand
7) Achieving Totalitarian Control through Problem Creation
The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break
your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the
government you wouldn't be able to walk.'
-Harry Browne
8) You Know You are reaching Totalitarian Control when ---
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion:
the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while
the citizens may act only by permission, which is the stage of the darkest
periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. - Ayn Rand, The Nature of
Government
"You
need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a
dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which
our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
--Charles Austin Beard, 1874–1948, American historian and author
9) On Rule by God’s Laws, or by tyrants
"All societies of men must be
governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State
Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less
they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private
moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a
power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by
the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet."
[Verna Hall ] Robert C. Winthrop, 1852
"If you will not
be ruled by God, you shall be ruled by tyrants" Samuel Adams.
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization,
not upon the power of government, far from it.
We have staked the future... upon the capacity
of each and all of us
to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves,
according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison p 47
Benjamin Franklin:
"Only a virtuous
people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt
and vicious, they have more
need of masters." (NCCS Letter Oct 1998)*
9a)
On Limited Government and a Virtuous People
John Adams:
"Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the
government of any other." *
George Washington in his Farewell Address cautions:
"...religion and
morality are indispensable supports of liberty. "... these (are) great
pillars of
human happiness--these
firmest props of the duties of men and citizen." "Let it be simply
asked , Where is the
security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious
obligation desert the oaths which are the
instruments of investigation in courts of justice?"
" ... It is true
that virtue and morality is a necessary spring of popular government."
(Our Founding Fathers called 'governments
by the people' popular governments prior to the accepted
double speak 'democratic' came into fashion to make socialism acceptable
- Karl Marx called for the establishment of democracy.
[see The Communist Manifesto 1848 ; at about that time democracy came
into usage here with the 'flood' of 'immigrants' from Europe into the US; seems
whenever the 'powers that be' wanted some drastic changes for the success
of their plans, they used 'immigration' as the whipping boy; this IS
true in our present day of supposedly un-controllable immigration!
surrounding our borders!!!]
PEOPLE ARE THE GUARDIANS OF
THEIR LIBERTIES IN SELF-GOVERNMENT UNDER 'THE LAWS OF
NATURE AND NATURE'S GOD'
The Founders of our American form of
government under the law of the Constitution, secured the God-
given rights to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness and placed
the tools of control over the power of government
into the hands of the American people. Will they be freemen or slaves,
shall be determined by whether they know how to use the law, (the
Constitution) and how to apply the control;
(by the selection of representatives) the people will be the
law-enforcement and apply the law for the preservation of their freedoms.
(by voting for
the representatives of their choice)
The FORM of our
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is a REPUBLIC
A Republic
by which I mean a (form) of government… where the scheme of representation…
takes place – passing (it) through a medium – (consisting of)
a small number of citizens elected by the rest; …whose wisdom
may best discern the true interest of the c o u n t r y
(not only their constituents) and whose patriotism and love of
justice, will be least likely to sacrifice it
to the temporary or partial considerations." *Federalist #10
The LAW of
limited POWERS under the CONSTITUTION
was delegated by the PEOPLE to
the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
"The powers
delegated by the Constitution to the federal government,
are few and defined. Those (powers) which are to remain
in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
The former (federal) will be exercised principally on external
objects, as war, peace, negotiations, and foreign commerce; …The powers
reserved to the several States will extend to
all the objects, which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern
the lives, liberties, and properties of the people;
and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the
State." *Federalist #45
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The
BALANCE of POWER is
HELD by the PEOPLE between
the STATES and the FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
"...the prudence and firmness of
the p e o p l e ... will hold the s c a l e s in their own hands, it is to be
hoped, (the people) will
always take care to preserve the c o n s t i t u t i o n a l e q u i l i b r i u m (balance of power) between the general (federal) and state governments. Federalist #31
Our FOUNDING
FATHERS entrusted the PRESERVATION of
LIBERTY to the AMERICAN PEOPLE
"The p r e s e r v a t i o
n of the sacred fire of L i b e r t y and the destiny of
the Republican model of
government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked
on the experiment e n t r u s t e d to the h a n d s of the
American p e o p l e.
George Washington
Three years after the
adoption of the Constitution, George Washington wrote:
"The United
States enjoys a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government,
under the Constitution, that could hardly have been hoped for."
"The United
States Constitution... (is) The most wonderful work ever struck off at a given
time by the brain and purpose of man."
William E. Gladstone
Samuel Adams:
"But neither the wisest Constitution nor wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt*. He therefore, is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. "
"If the citizens of
the united States should not be free and happy, the fault will be entirely their
own."
G. Washington quoted in The American Dictionary of the English Language 1828, Noah
Webster p 38
The Young Republic was under Attack from "those
who study, by arbitrary interpretations and insidious precedents, to
pervert the limited government of the Union, into a government of unlimited
discretion, contrary to the will and subversive of the authority of the
people." National Gazette on April 2, 1792 James Madison
! ! !
"It will be of little avail to the people, that
the laws are made
by men of their own choice, if the laws
be so voluminous that they
cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;
if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or
undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the
law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow."
--Alexander
Hamilton or James Madison, Federalist No. 62
Examples: Our many “Free Trade Agreements”; i.e., NAFTA at some 20,000 pages
"You need only
reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a
dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very
phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
--Charles Austin Beard, 1874–1948, American historian and author
9b)
On
the Need to Educate Each New Generation in the Principles Upon Which Our
Country was Founded (The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,
along with Individual Achievement and the Free Enterprise System [see item 1
above, for a description of the true Free Enterprise System in action, the
Henry Ford Quote]).
"No free government can be
preserved by any people unless there is a frequent recurrence
(reference) to the principles upon which the polity (governing order) was
founded. [This is] an intellectual
heritage and its repository is the public mind, ... yet consciousness
of the truths of the past, of first principles, is the most basic part of a
nation's identity."
"If this Republic is to
survive, informed and responsible citizens must recognize their solemn
obligation to continually return to these principles, to reflect upon them
deeply, and to share their reflections with other members of the polity."
Prof.
Charles Rice, Notre Dame University Law School
10) The Original Intent of “General Welfare” was NOT Individual Economic WELFARE for all, but exactly what it stated, the GENERAL Welfare of the Country AS A WHOLE
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done
by money, and will promote the General Welfare (with taxpayer money), the
Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an
indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." --James Madison (from the Federalist)
"There are
troubling signs that the ship of conservative governance is off-course. One
more compromise of who we are as limited-government conservatives and our
majority could be gone as well. It is time for conservatives to right the
ship." --Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence (2004 in reference
to the “conservative” passed Medicare Prescription Drug expansion program).
"The Founders believed that there was a God who brings down the mighty and lifts up the poor. They relied upon this belief.... As you might expect, this belief shaped their understanding of morality and character, as well. They did not make the distinction between private and public conduct that we do. ...If this seems hard to understand, the problem lies with us, not our Founders. Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. And as such, it assumes certain things to be true about human nature and ... about the authority of the God of the Bible. But these beliefs run contrary to our culture's worldviews. And that's why the ordered liberty envisioned by the Founders has degenerated into a demand for personal autonomy that asks nothing of its citizens, not even their virtue. ... [P]rivate virtue, rooted in biblical faith, is essential for the American experiment to work as the Founders intended. And, it's vital that Christians understand this often-ignored 'wing' on which our way of life depends. The wing that teaches us that, without virtue, there can be no greatness." --Charles Colson
"What will
conservatives be willing to risk in order to contain the growth of government,
to preserve the traditional understanding of marriage, to uphold the American
national identity? It often looks like
not much, but there are some signs this might be changing." --James
Antle ++
"One thing is
certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot
soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the
ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real
conservatives find their views no longer matter." --Ron Paul, 2003
13) On the 10th Amendment
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid
on this
ground, that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to
the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the
boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress,
is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer
susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson
14) On “Doing the Right Thing”
"The right thing to
do never requires any subterfuge; it is always simple and direct." --Calvin
Coolidge
You can tell when it’s
NOT the Right Thing, when deception, disinformation and subterfuge must
be used to convince the citizenry, SUCH AS (Bush II):
“they hate us for our freedom”;
“they have WMD and are ready to use them against us, if
we don’t invade them now (paraphrased)’; etc., or when
no stone is left unturned to disregard Constitutional limits on government to push for socialist, totalitarian government, as when,
"Bill Clinton felt
our pain so deeply there was no price he was not willing to have taxpayers bear
to make us feel better. ... Mr. Bush too, has this unattractive tendency to
believe there is a government agency to fix every leaky pipe in the nation. Mr.
Bush may not have announced a national campaign to eradicate athlete's foot,
but it wouldn't have been much of a stretch if he had." --Steve
Moore, Club for Growth
15) On the Use of “Civil Rights” to Destroy
Freedom
"The great paradox
of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding
equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on
race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal
revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has
been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of
status-based rights." --Paul Craig Roberts
16. “Advice to the Young” by Noah Webster
"When you become entitled to exercise the right
of voting for
public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands
you to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of
God.' The preservation of a republican government depends on the
faithful discharge of this duty; If the citizens neglect their
duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will
soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so
much as for the selfish or local purposes; Corrupt or incompetent
men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will
be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will
be violated or disregarded. If a Republican government fails to
secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the
citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make
and administer the laws." --Noah Webster
17)
On the Second Amendment
In Commonplace Book, Thomas Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On
Crimes and Punishment: "Laws that forbid the carrying of
arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit
crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the
assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an
unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
"You
need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a
dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which
our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
--Charles
Austin Beard,
1874–1948, American historian and author