"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time" -- Lieutenant General Lewis B."Chesty" Puller (when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions)

I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out. - Andrew Jackson

Imagine if Old Hickory was president today. Goddamn.

" I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. "


Smedley Butler - 1935

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

"Truth is in the mind of the teller and History is in ones freedom with integrity" O.J.C.

First time I hear this one, thanks for posting.

"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."

-Pascal

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"Circumstances rule men. Men do not rule circumstances." ~ Herodotus

"No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God" - William Blackstone

"Let's Roll"

Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, tried to place a credit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat but was routed to a customer-service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Beamer reported that one passenger was killed and, later, that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. He was also on the phone when the plane made its turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly panicking. Later, he told the operator that some of the plane's passengers were planning to attack the hijackers and take control of the aircraft. According to Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."

One for Remembrance Day:


What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Churchill, June 18, 1940

'Today, America 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 that there were an outside threat from beyond , whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well--being granted to them by the World Government.'

-- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991"


'The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.'

-- J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the FBI"


'The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one--world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.'

-- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets."


'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. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto--determination practiced in past centuries.'

-- David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991."


'We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.'

-- Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, 1950."


'The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.'

-- Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1844 called Coningsby, the New Generation "

wat?

No. Although probably no general consensus can be reached on this, I'll just use Wikipedia for some reasonable and basic facts.

Prime Ministers of England:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...United_Kingdom

From Wiki article linked above:


"There is no specific date when the office of Prime Minister first appeared, as the role was not created but evolved over a period of time. The term was certainly in Parliamentary use by the 1880s, and in 1905 post of Prime Minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence. Modern historians generally apply the title of First Prime Minister to Sir Robert Walpole, who led the government of Great Britain for twenty-one years from 1721 to 1742.

Due to the gradual evolution of the post of Prime Minister, the title is applied to early Prime Ministers only retrospectively; this has sometimes given rise to academic dispute. "

-Zeno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKDGM5KTBY here's the video. I get chills everytime i hear that line.

Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by sucessful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they desposed.

There is no humorist like History


Both by Will and Ariel Durant.

“Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on.”

Yeats

Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.
Pete Townshend, 1971.

Sorry, couldn't resist....

"We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

Congressman Larry P. McDonald

Thomas Paine:

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. "

"Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."

"We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now."

Matthew Henry from the Puritan period:

“Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”



“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave”



“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity”



“None so deaf as those that will not hear”



“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.”



“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.”



“No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness”



“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.”



“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”




“Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse”


“All this and heaven too.”


“To their own second and sober thoughts.”


“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”


“Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.”


“Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ”

Don't think this quote is verbatim, so maybe someone can shed some light on this, but it should be fairly close.

"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom in order to gain a little security will receive neither and deserve none."

Benjamin Franklin

I am shocked by Friedrich Engels sentiments in this quote but it's very informative about how he thought about communism of which he is one of the founders:

“for Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality….”

quote drawn from Richard Wurmbrand's book about Marx on Scribd, page 25

Who deliberately proposes a political system devoid of morality?

Interesting and tragic.

Lenin on his deathbed:

"I committed a great error. My nightmare is to have the feeling that I’m lost in an ocean of blood from the innumerable victims. It is too late to return. To save our country, Russia, we would have needed men like Francis of Assisi. With ten men like him we would have saved Russia."

Quote from Wurmbrand's book on Marx, on Scribd, page 32

Which, of course, was the inspiration for General Anthony McAuliffe's response to the German request to discuss terms for surrender after becoming encircled within Bastogne:

"Nuts"