Some very worthy quotes to share and use for ALL of us these days

[seventhson]

These just popped up on the International Peace Practitioners' Network list. They're from various Information Clearinghouse newsletters:

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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, 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 all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world -- no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." -- Woodrow Wilson

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experimenter's definition of the situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority." -- Stanley Milgram, 1965

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick." -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Letter in The Washington Post, January 28, 1960

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience ... therefore have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." -- Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another." -- Joseph Addison

"If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us." -- Francis Bacon

"He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad." -- Marcus Aurelius

"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other -- confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future." -- Bourke Cockran

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." -- Edmund Burke

"To the wrongs that need resistance
To the right that needs assistance
To the future in the distance
Give yourselves."
-- Carrie Chapman Catt

[Political_Junkie]

1. thanks

:)

[Qutzupalotl]

2. I have a new sig line.

:7

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

[seventhson]

3. Cooool! Glad I could be of service. There are MANY potential sig lines

in this group

[Senior citizen]

4. Thank you.

I hoped when I bought the printer that someday there'd be something I wanted to print. This was it.

:toast: