"I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." Alexander Hamilton
"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!" John Adams
"This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." James Monroe
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Alexander Hamilton
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." Samuel Adams
"If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be." George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson
"No free government now exists in the world, unless where Christianity is acknowledged, and is the religion of the country." Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1824.
"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty." John Adams
"Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty." John Adams
In 2002, National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice denied that the attack on the World Trade Center was anticipated.
However, numerous reports show that officials did, in fact, consider the scenario of planes being used as guided missiles against signature targets such as the World Trade Center. In 2004, USA Today reported that NORAD ran drills in the two years preceding the attack in which simulated hijacked jetliners were crashed into targets including the World Trade Center. 2 Other reports date back long before the attack. The April 3, 1995 edition of Time Magazine ran a cover story in which Senator Sam Nunn described a scenario in which terrorists crashed a radio-controlled airplane into the U.S. Capitol building. 3
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| This illustration is from a FEMA training manual published before the attack. |
The World Trade Center was well-recognized as a target of a terrorist attack ever since the 1993 garage bombing attack. In 1994, an expert from a panel commissioned by the Pentagon wrote in the Futurist magazine:
Another fact belying Dr. Rice's statement is that on the morning of 9/11/01 the National Reconnaissance Office was running an exercise simulating the crash of a corporate jet into a tower on their campus.
Awareness of the liklihood of the targeting of the Twin Towers was not confined to officialdom. Several events in the popular culture seemed to anticipate the attack.
Events that occurred within a year of the attack and should have been the subject of an investigation remain widely unknown to the public. Control of the complex was privatized through a 99-year lease to a consortium headed by Silverstein Properties. Facts relating to the security of the buildings are also suspicious.
Other Mindboggling Facts
Al Cuppett (Retired US Army & Action Officer, the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Ted Gunderson (Retired FBI Chief) Exposing Conspiracies
Audio
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Einstein's Confession of Faith
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." Josef Goebbels
"How fortunate for leaders, that the masses do not think." Adolf Hitler
BBC on the Bush Family Fortunes (long video)
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams
"Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea." John Adams
"A little revolution now and then is a good thing; the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1787
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." John Adams
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." John Adams, 1765
"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1861
"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions." Samuel Adams, 1788
"This is the constitution... Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer." Alexander Hamilton
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." John Quincy Adams, 1789
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." Thomas Jefferson, 1776, Declaration of Independence
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." Thomas Jefferson
"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." Alexander Hamilton, June 21, 1788
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison
"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer." William Henry Harrison
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
"A Democracy will vote away its rights." Benjamin Franklin
"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." George Washington, Sept 17 1796
Martin
Luther King
War Is The Enemy Of The Poor
(think Iraq when you hear
Vietnam)
MLK
On War
Terrorism --> Patriot Act
"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." Alexander Hamilton
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it." George Washington
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons, Nov 18, 1783
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." James Madison, June 16, 1788
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes." Andrew Jackson
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity." Martin Van Buren
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." William Henry Harrison
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
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"She goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." John Quincy Adams, 1821
"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." Millard Fillmore
"Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty." George Washington, Sept 17 1796
"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." James Madison, June 29, 1787
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." - Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war, is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded." James Madison, April 20, 1795
"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will." James Monroe
"My first wish
is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
George Washington
Albert Einstein
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder even if done by the state on a large scale."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
"The thinking of the future has to make wars impossible."
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
"I wish I could indulge higher hope for the future of our country, but the aspect of any vision is fearfully dark and I cannot make it otherwise." Franklin Pierce, Sr.