“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
Aesop
“I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
Jim Garrison
“It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.”
Noam Chomsky
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.”
William Godwin
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”
Viktor E. Frankl
“Always stand on principle…. even if you stand alone.”
John Adams
“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
Aesop
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
The 2016 Presidential Election was quite the spectacle. During the primaries we watched Donald Trump go politically-incorrect Rambo on sixteen milquetoast republicans whose names I can’t recall right now. During the Democratic Primaries, Bernie “Santa Claus” Sanders kept winning state after state; yet the superdelegates all fell into Hillary’s column. In fact, after Sanders won eight out of nine primary contests by double digits, Clinton received more superdelegates in an electioneering process that even the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, admitted was rigged for the politically elite against “grassroots” candidates. What a con.
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“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
Aesop
“It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
Aesop
“Please all, and you will please none.”
Aesop
“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”
Aesop
“United we stand; divided we fall.”
Aesop
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”
Aesop
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
“Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.”
Aesop
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Aesop
“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
Aesop
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”
Aesop
