Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 001"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenarios, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."--Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates.
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 002"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years." He went on to explain: "It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."--David Rockefeller speaking at the June 1991 Bilderberger meeting in Baden Baden, Germany (a meeting also attended by then Governor Bill Clinton and Dan Quayle).
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 003"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."--Theodore Roosevelt
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 004"If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own - that thing is the preservation of their own liberties and institutions."--Abraham Lincoln
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 005"..the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. For the conclusion of this war [for Independence] we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1791
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 006"1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead in the future!"--Adolf Hitler
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 007"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of many by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."--Abraham Lincoln
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 008Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.--Alexis de Tocqueville
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 009"Government is not reason: It is not eloquence, it is Force, like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."--George Washington
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 010"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!"--Edmund Burke
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 011"Rights come from GOD not the state. You have rights antecedent to any earthly governments rights that can not be repealed or restrained by human laws. Rights derived from the great legislator: God."--John Adams
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 012Inscribed on our Hallowed LIBERTY BELL are these words:"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. We Paid the Price ONCE!"
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Lord grant me the Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 014"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance."--George Bush addressing the world leaders at the UN.
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 015Without seeking, truth cannot be know at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use, Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of its husk, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.--John Ruskin
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 016"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own."--John Ruskin
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 017"The liberty which a citizen employs is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him; and that, whether this machinery is or is not one he shared in making, its actions are not of the kind proper to Liberalism if they increase such restraints beyond those which are needful for preventing him from directly or indirectly aggressing on his fellows---needful, that is, for maintaining the liberties of his fellows against his invasions of them; restraints which are, therefore, to be distinguished as negatively coercive, nor positively coercive...."--Herbert Spencer
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 018"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 thee 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, no longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution."--Thomas Jefferson Opinion on the Constitutionality of a national bank February 15, 1791
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 019"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still." --Charles Caleb Colon
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 020"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt to the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."--Samuel Butler
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 021The liberty which a citizen employs is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him; and that, whether this machinery is or is not one he shared in making, its actions are not of the kind proper to Liberalism if they increase such restraints beyond those which ar needful for preventing him from directly or indirectly aggressing on his fellows---needful, that is, for maintaining the liberties of his fellows against his invasions of them: restraints which are, therefore, to be distinguished as negatively coercive, not positively coercive.....--Herbert Spencer
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 022"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."--Ambrose Bierce
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 023"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."--Don Marquis
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 024"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe."--Clarence Darrow
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 025"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."--Thomas Jefferson
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 026"Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain."--Aubrey T. DeVera
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 027"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without any visible means of support."--Ambrose Bierce
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 028"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."--Confucius
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 029"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."--Abraham Lincoln
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 030"Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world."--Thomas Carlyle
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 031"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."--Charles DeGaulle
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 032"Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."--Ambrose Bierce
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 033"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river."--Nikita Khrushcev
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 034"A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better."--Anonymous
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 035Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 036"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rives and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."--General William Curtis
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 037"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."--Confucius
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 038"He serves his party best who serves the country best."--Rutherford B. Hayes
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 039"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."--Dwight W. Morrow
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 040"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."--James Russell Lowell
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 041"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal."--Alexander Hamilton
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 042"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."--James Thurber
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 043"Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."--Mark Twain
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series : 044"We ain't what we ought to be. We ain't what we could be. We ain't what we gonna be, but thank God we ain't what we were."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 045"If we run into such [government] debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the govbernment for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-suffers."--Thomas Jefferson
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quotes: 046"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debase the currency."--Nikolai Lenin
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quotes Series: 047"There is no subtler, or surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debase the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which only one man in a million is able to diagnose."--John Maynard Keynes
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 048"In transactions of trade it is not to be supposed that, as in gaming, what one party gains the other must necessarily lose. The gain to each may be equal. If A has more corn than he can consume, but wants cattle; and B has more cattle, but wants corn; excahnge is gain to each; thereby the common stock of comforts in life is increased."--Benjamin Franklin
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 049"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presusmption enough to fancy himself fit to excercise it."-- Adam Smith
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 050"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', becasue law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."--Thomas Jefferson
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 051"America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."--Alexis de Tocqueville
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 052"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be tursted with the government of others?"--Thomas Jefferson
Geoff Metcalf Significanta Quote Series: 053"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."--Thomas Jefferson
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 054"There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do."--Milton Friedman. Nobel laureate
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 055"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something they can be dangerous."--Will Rogers
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 056"Ever time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves."
--Benjamin Constant, Brazilian statesman
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 057"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."--Thomas Edison
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 058"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."--Marcus Tullius Cicero 42B.C.
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 058"We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 059"We are not moved by the gloomy smile of a worthless king, but by the ardent glow of generous patriotism. We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. In such a case we are sure that we are right; and we leave to you the despairing reflection of being the tool of a miserable tyrant."--Thomas Paine
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 060"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."--Samuel Adams
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 061"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."--John F. Kennedy
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 062"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword, is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."--Tench Coxe 1788
Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 063"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themsleves against tyranny in government."--Thomas Jefferson
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