Akkam’s Razor

There are three parties in the United States - the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the Incumbent Party.

Information is the edge that the elite hold over the people.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The alliance between business and goverment is by definition… Fascism.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all “inherent power” must derive from that Constitution.”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield…to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

“The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.”

“Your vision will be come clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

“They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far and no further!”

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized…”

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on **one** topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase extracted from its context… he takes us toward a new and fearful path — one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic visionaries.

I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

“Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

“As an officer, I have the deepest respect for the President. But as an officer, it is also my duty to point out when an order is wrong. What protects our democracy is that we do not just follow orders blindly.”

“Only the educated are free.”

“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’”

“Facts are stupid things.”

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”

“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”