Ignorance Is Bliss
By John Fogg on 9:37 PM
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Marion Barry
"Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
George W. Bush
"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
“There ought to be limits to freedom”
Bill Clinton
"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
“We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.”
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
“I can spend your money better than you can.”
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
"I did not have sexual realtions with that woman, Miss Lewinsky!"
"Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong"
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign."
Hillary Clinton
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
Hermann Göring
"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.”
Adolf Hitler
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.”
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”
Edward Kennedy
"As the author of the first HMO bill ever to pass the Senate, I find this spreading support for HMOs truly gratifying. Just a few years ago, proponents of health maintenance organizations faced bitter opposition from organized medicine. ... HMOs have proven themselves again and again to be effective and efficient mechanisms for delivering health care of the highest quality. HMOs cut hospital utilization by an average of 20 to 25 percent compared to the fee-for-service sector."
"Today, if your child has a rare congenital heart defect…your [HMO] plan can condemn your child to second-rate care…"
Vladimir Lenin
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” a
“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.”
“The goal of socialism is communism.”
Abraham Lincoln
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."
"You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce and prohibit any further publication thereof....you are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison...the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers." Note: Order given to General John Dix, May 18, 1864
Karl Marx
“There is only one way to kill capitalism – by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.”
“Democracy is the road to Socialism.”
Benito Mussolini
"We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become."
Barack Obama
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
SA Oberführer
"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."
Janet Reno
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
Joseph Stalin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Newspaper Articles
New York Times, September 24, 1975
“The only way to discourage the gun culture is to remove the guns from the hands and shoulders of people who are not in the law enforcement business.”
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