“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
…Patrick Henry
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“The New World Order will be built… an end run on national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.”
…Council on Foreign Relations
1974, p. 558
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“The Constitution is just a Goddamn piece of paper.”
…George W. Bush
November 2005
Capital Hill Blue
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“Pope Pius told us that the encyclical Rerum Novarum was instrumental in ending laissez-faire capitalism in the twentieth century by ushering in the era of ‘effective interference by the government’”
“Under fascism, property owners may keep their property titles and deeds, but the use of their property is, as Leo XIII wrote, ‘common’. Fascism is a form of socialism that retains the forms and trappings of capitalism, but not its substance.”
“The experiment with economic freedom must end, and economic life must again be subjected to planning and government.”
Professor Walter J. Veith on
Rerum Novarum, On the Condition of the Working Classes
1981
“… ‘those picked men whom we have named the auxiliaries of the Church’ who have been so instrumental…in ending the free enterprise system of the nineteenth century and substituting a system of effective interference by government in the twentieth century. Who those ‘picked men’ are, I do not know”
John W. Robbins, Ecclesiastical Megalomania.
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“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
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