NonSemperAestas's blog: "brought over from my oldest / first blog"

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight Eisenhower A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. L.B.J.

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." Victor Hugo "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine "Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Hermann Goerring "How lucky for those in power that people don't think." Adolf Hitler "The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it." Woodrow WIlson "Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption." James Garfield

"The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started and you can't be sure of your end. None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man. A father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember, how so ever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God you cannot say, " But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that."

But what of the Sorrowing Angel, heaven’s failure, eyes clouded, hands wringing, tears like stone bullets