Liberty Quotes- Hillary Clinton, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Bidinotto

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
-- Hillary Clinton
(1947- ) Wife of President Bill Clinton, US Senator (NY-D)
Source: June 28, 2004 fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer in San Francisco
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Hillary.Clinton.Quote.B78F


"If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?"
-- Robert Anton Wilson
American writer
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Anton.Wilson.Quote.1171


"Republicans don't know how to defend morally an individual's right to achieve wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail. ... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence over the individualist heritage of the nation. ... One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society.  Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution.  It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, his life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique.  People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place."
-- Robert Bidinotto
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Bidinotto.Quote.5521


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Liberty Quotes- Joseph Goebbels, Nikita Khrushchev, Rick Gaber

"To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou;

socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."

-- Joseph Goebbels

(1897-1945) German Reich Minister of Propaganda (1933-1945), National Socialist German Workers' Party ("Nazi")

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Goebbels.Quote.899F

"Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."

-- Nikita Khrushchev

(1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union

Source: addressing the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, 2-25-56

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Nikita.Khrushchev.Quote.0439

"The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.'  Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell."

-- Rick Gaber

Libertarian writer

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Rick.Gaber.Quote.8B1B

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NRCOI Fall 2013 Webinars

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We are writing to announce the 2013 Fall Webinars sponsored by the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI):

September 26, 2013:  “New Hampshirizing” Implementation Research:  Making It Work for Your System:  Join us for this discussion of lessons learned about implementation through the child welfare system change initiatives supported by the Northeast and Caribbean Implementation Center (NCIC), one of five regional Implementation Centers (ICs) that have been part of the Children’s Bureau Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network over the past five years. Implementation stages and drivers will come alive as our presenters and child welfare leaders from New Hampshire discuss how these implementation research ideas have been applied as the agency has implemented a practice model.

Findings from the NCIC evaluation and observations across all the NCIC projects will also be shared as presenters explore what contributes to a strong implementation process, and how these projects can be sustained.

OBJECTIVES:  Participants in this session will:

● Have an increased understanding of key strategies for successful implementation of change initiatives in child welfare

● Learn how implementation stages and drivers supported implementation of New Hampshire’s practice model implementation

PRESENTERS:  Maggie Bishop, Director, Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), New Hampshire; Todd Crumb, Senior Planner, DCYF, New Hampshire; Penthea Burns, Northeast and Caribbean Implementation Center (NCIC) Site Liaison, New Hampshire; David Lambert, Evaluation Director, NCIC

October 29, 2013: Scaling Up an Evidence Based Intervention:  A Discussion of Implementation:  Are you working on implementing or expanding evidence based interventions in your child welfare system?  This session will highlight Kansas’s experience with selecting and scaling up Parent Management Training – Oregon Model (PMTO) to improve permanency outcomes for children and youth with severe emotional disturbances (SED) under the five-year federal Permanency Innovation Initiative (PII).   Presenters from the child welfare agency, contractors in the privatized system, and the university will briefly describe their first year of work to explore the population’s needs and select an intervention to address those needs, and then will focus on the activities and challenges of the next two years of implementation.    These leaders will share their experience with using implementation frameworks, developed out of implementation research, to guide their efforts, and what they have learned about the supports that are critical during the implementation process.

OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this session will:

● Have increased understanding of the challenges and supports critical to implementing an evidence based intervention.

● Have increased knowledge of how implementation frameworks can help agencies implement an evidence based intervention

PRESENTERS:  Patricia Long, Program Administrator of Permanency, Kansas Department for Children and Family, Linda Bass, Vice President of Clinical and Well-Being Services, KVC Behavioral Healthcare, Inc., Vickie McArthur, Director of Clinical Services, St. Francis Community and Family Services, Becci Akin, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Thomas McDonald, Associate Dean and Professor, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

All webinars are held at 2:30 pm Eastern, 1:30 pm Central, 12:30 pm Mountain, 11:30 am Pacific, 10:30 am Alaska, 9:30 am Hawaii and last for 90 minutes.

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Liberty Quotes

"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal."
-- George Santayana
[Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás] (1863-1952) Spanish-born philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
Source: The Life of Reason
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Santayana.Quote.6372


"One byproduct of individualism is benevolence -- a general attitude of good
will towards one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is impossible
in a society where people violate each others' rights." -- Glenn Woiceshyn
-- Glenn Woiceshyn
Canadian writer
Source: Lessons from the Great Ice Storm: Individualism vs Collectivism, 1998.03.07, Capitalism Magazine
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Glenn.Woiceshyn.Quote.2824


"Thus, individualism is not antithetical to community. Rather, it can involve free association and a belief in an over-arching harmony of interests. In a free socety, individuals join with others because of love and mutual benefit, not because they are programmed or coerced."
-- Prof. Clifford Thies
Professor, economist, specializing in statistics
Source: Communitarianism versus Individualism, August 21, 2010,
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Clifford.Thies.Quote.0291


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American Minute with Bill Federer AUG. 26 - 'Women can Vote'

American Minute with Bill Federer AUG. 26 - 'Women can Vote' 6,000 years of recorded world history reveal the most common form of government is monarchy. The most powerful monarch ever was the British King, whose vast empire, at it peak, controlled 13 million square miles - almost a quarter of the Earth's land, and nearly half billion people - one-fifth of the world's population at the time. The Revolutionary War separated America from Britain and soon other countries began rejecting their monarchs and replacing them with elected representative governments called republics. America's Civil War and the 13th Amendment ended slavery, followed by a Republican Congress pushing through the 14th Amendment - giving rights to freed slaves, and the 15th Amendment - assuring freed slaves the right to vote. The momentum of the anti-slavery movement was channeled into the women's suffrage movement to allow women to vote, and the temperance movement to prohibit alcohol. The women's suffrage movement spread in the late 1800's thru many countries, including Sweden, Finland, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and in America. After World War I, American men voted for women to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, AUGUST 26, 1920: "The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." After World War II, war-torn and post-colonial countries adopted new governments which allowed women to vote, joined by other emerging nations, such as: France 1944 Italy 1946 Venezuela 1946 Japan 1947 Taiwan 1947 India 1947 Kenya 1963 Islamic countries followed later, such as: Iraq 1980 Qatar 1997 Bahrain 2002 Oman 2003 Kuwait 2005 Nations practicing Sharia Law, such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Brunei still limit a woman's right to vote. With the expansion of voting came techniques to influence voters through manipulating public opinion, race-baiting, fear-mongering, government handouts, and voter fraud. A leader in the women's suffrage movement was Susan B. Anthony, praised by President Gerald Ford, February 13, 1976: "Susan B. Anthony...with other dedicated women...took the cause of women's suffrage to State capitals across our growing Nation... The irreversible change she wrought...led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment." Susan B. Anthony also fought to prohibit alcohol, addressing the Daughters of Temperance, March 1, 1849: "Ladies! There is no Neutral position for us...If we sustain not this noble enterprise...then is our influence on the side of Intemperance. If we say we love the Cause and then sit down at our ease, surely does our action speak the lie. And now permit me once more to beg of you to lend your aid to this great Cause, the Cause of God and all Mankind." Get your own copy of the best-selling America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations The League of Women Voters was addressed on their 50th Anniversary by President Richard Nixon, April 17, 1969: "A year before the 19th amendment was adopted the League of Women Voters was founded, and that organization, in the past 50 years, has played a major role in this Nation on a nonpartisan basis... Since about 1947, a tremendously escalating role of women in politics in the United States... I often say that men do the talking and women do the working in campaigns..." Nixon continued: "As we look at the past 50 years we wonder what could happen in the next 50 years... As I look around the world and as I find that India has a woman Prime Minister, Ceylon has a woman Prime Minister, Israel has a woman Prime Minister..." Women's suffrage leader Julia Ward Howe, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic, stating in the 3rd verse: "I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; 'As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; LET THE HERO, BORN OF WOMAN, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on." To the Daughters of the American Revolution, President Calvin Coolidge remarked April 19, 1926: "Who has not heard of Molly Pitcher, whose heroic services at the Battle of Monmouth helped the sorely tried army of George Washington! We have been told of the unselfish devotion of the women who gave their own warm garments to fashion clothing for the suffering Continental Army during that bitter winter at Valley Forge. The burdens of the war were not all borne by the men..." Coolidge continued: Since 1880 there has been a marked increase in the tendency to remain away from the polls on the part of those entitled to vote... Election day in the olden times was generally considered more or less sacred - one to be devoted to the discharge of the obligations of citizenship... If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... Such a system of government is doomed to failure." 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Parental Rights- Recess Recap

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August 27, 2013 Recess Recap The August Recess – that period when senators and members of Congress return to their state (or district) to be available to their constituents – is winding down. This is the last week of the recess for many, who will then take next week off completely. Congress reconvenes in Washington, D.C., on September 9. So, how is it going? We asked you to set up visits with your lawmakers and urge your congressman to support the Parental Rights Amendment, while urging your senators to oppose the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. And while we have no way of knowing how many of you accepted the challenge, we did hear from several of you throughout the month. Here is what several parental rights champions have had to say: “I called [the local] office and they said a lot: That just because [my congressman] hasn’t signed on doesn’t mean he would vote ‘no.’ When I did not accept that as a reason, she said that there are over 5,000 pieces of legislation introduced and that he can’t sign on to all of them or he would lose track. When again I did not accept that (discussed how the Parental Rights Amendment is a priority and that so many others have signed on, etc.), she said that…I should call the DC office. Then I called the DC office….” (emphasis added; you have to love that tenacity!) -- Desiree in the Southwest “I’ve been trying to get a response from Rep. L____’s office for a while now and finally got one today! He already knew about the amendment and didn’t think it would be a problem to sign on as co-sponsor, but will have to wait until after Labor Day when they all get back to D.C. to do it. YEEEHAAAAWWWW!!!” -- Gwen in the Midwest (Note: One cannot officially sign on as a cosponsor until they can add their name with the Clerk of the House once Congress is back in session.) “I just called my Congressman’s office and spoke with Chad. I asked him if he knew if the congressman was familiar with the resolution. He said, ‘Actually I have had a number of calls on the issue so far today, and yes, the congressman was familiar with it.’” -- Karen on the West Coast “I spoke with Congressman King’s staff and they said he is signing on today!” -- Barb in the Midwest (Rep. Steve King of Iowa became the 63rd cosponsor by contacting Rep. Meadows on August 8, but this is still not yet official with the Clerk.) Action Items There is still time to accept the challenge! Simply locate your local congressional office, call for an appointment to see your congressman or his staff, and urge them to support the Parental Rights Amendment. It is HJRes 50 in the U.S. House. You can find your congressman’s page by clicking on your state at parentalrights.org/states, then clicking on “website” next to your representative. You also have a week left to contact your senators and urge them to oppose ratification of the CRPD, a treaty that threatens American sovereignty and the parental rights of those whose children have disabilities. For 15 Critical Issues with this treaty, click here. You can also find a step-by-step how-to for making visits here. Finally, remember that today is Michael Farris’s birthday, and the last chance (through 11 a.m. tomorrow) to add your name to his birthday card by donating to ParentalRights.org. Thank you for standing with us – to protect children by empowering parents – by calling or visiting your lawmakers today! Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research

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Liberty Quotes

"We hold that what one man cannot morally do,
a million men cannot morally do, and government,
representing many millions of men, cannot do."
-- Auberon Herbert
(1838-1906) English author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Auberon.Herbert.Quote.ABDC


"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do
anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
-- John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Considered the ideological progenitor of the American Revolution and who, by far, was the most often non-biblical writer quoted by the Founding Fathers of the USA.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Locke.Quote.BEE0


"This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature.   It’s only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen -­ that is what makes the crucial difference."
-- Tibor R. Machan
Professor, author, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Source: Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA, March 01, 2004
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Tibor.Machan.Quote.4049


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U.S. Government Workers Best Paid in World

U.S. Government Workers Best Paid in World
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Federal employees in the United States receive significantly higher total compensation than do central-government workers in other developed nations, according to a new analysis of income data.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides figures showing how central-government workers are paid in the world's developed, high-income countries.

The OECD looked at the salaries, benefits, and paid leave for government employees and combined the values to compute total compensation in four main categories of public employees.

In the senior management category, top-level employees are classified as being at the D1 and D2 levels.

The D1 designates an employee just below cabinet level, and public employees at this level in the United States receive average compensation of $248,438 a year, compared to $228,832 for employees in 18 other OECD countries. That’s according to Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, whose analysis (We're No. 1 — in public employee pay) was published by National Review Online.

D2 managers are immediately below the D1 level. They receive on average $261,226 a year in the United States — even more than D1 employees — and $173,913 elsewhere.

The middle management category includes civil servants whose positions are designated D3 and D4. They too receive significantly more in the United States than in other countries, as do workers in the professionals category, which includes economists and statisticians.

The secretarial staff category includes senior/executive secretaries, who earn $98,786 in America and $52,815 elsewhere, and office secretaries/general office clerks, whose compensation in the United States amounts to $69,476 compared to $47,783 in the other countries.

American government workers' salaries are not outrageously higher than those in other countries, but their benefits are. U.S. federal employees' total benefits add up to 37 percent of their wages, compared to 16 percent for employees in Australia, 27 percent in the U.K., and 23 percent in the OECD as a whole.

On average, American federal government workers receive 16 percent higher total compensation than do similar workers in other OECD nations, even after differences in the countries' average income levels are taken into account.

Yet Biggs points to several factors suggesting that U.S. federal employees are on average less skilled than their foreign counterparts.

"Federal taxpayers should be able to feel confident that they are not overpaying for the services they receive," Biggs concludes. "Liberals who favor activist government should support pay parity as a means to maintain support for government programs, just as budget hawks should do so to contribute to deficit reduction.

"But the evidence, from a variety of different angles, suggests we are still far from that goal."

American Minute with Bill Federer AUG. 24 - Gutenberg and 'the Book of books'

American Minute with Bill Federer AUG. 24 - Gutenberg and 'the Book of books' Beginning in 175 AD, during the Han Dynasty, Chinese scholars placed paper over stone engravings of Confucius text and made rubbings with charcoal. This developed into laying paper over raised stone letters covered with ink, a technique which spread to other countries like Japan, where a Nara Empress printed a Buddhist charm in 768 AD. Using a method with carved wooden or baked clay blocks, China, during the Tang Dynasty, created what could be considered the first 'printed' book in 868 AD. China eventually introduced the invention of printed 'paper currency' during the Song Dynasty. The shear number of Chinese characters, though, over 50,000, hindered them from making further printing innovations. Korea, during the Goryeo Dynasty, invented the first metal moveable type printing press, and, in 1443, Korean Emperor Sejong the Great introduced a 24-letter han'gul alphabet which made printing practical. At nearly the same time, on the other side of the world, Johannes Gutenberg invented the Western world's first metal moveable type printing press. Western civilization had long been using a phonetic alphabet, dating back to a Semitic alphabet around 1500 BC. It was not until 1400 AD that Europeans first began using carved wooden blocks applied with ink to print religious messages. On AUGUST 24, 1455, Gutenberg printed his masterpiece, the Gutenberg Bible, regarded as the first book of significance ever printed. No longer copied tediously by hand and chained to pulpits, Bibles were soon mass produced.   Gutenberg, whose name means "beautiful mountain," wrote of his 42-line Gutenberg Bible, also called the Mazarin Bible, 1455: "God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spread the public treasure. Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world by her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine..." Gutenberg continued: "Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men. Through it, God will spread His word; a spring of pure truth shall flow from it; like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light hithertofore unknown to shine among men." In March of 1455, future Pope Pius II wrote in a letter to Cardinal Carvajal: "All that has been written to me about that marvelous man seen at Frankfurt is true. I have not seen complete Bibles but only a number of quires of various books of the Bible. The script was very neat and legible, not at all difficult to follow - your grace would be able to read it without effort, and indeed without glasses." Unfortunately for Gutenberg, he had borrowed 8,000 guilders from Johann Fust, who sued him at the archbishop's court in 1456 and took the print shop, leaving Gutenberg bankrupt. Gutenberg re-started a smaller print shop, and participated in the printing of Bibles in the town of Bamberg. Gutenberg's invention was considered the most important event of the modern period as it began a printing revolution which significantly influenced Europe's Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution.   Get your own copy of the best-selling America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations Victor Hugo wrote in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831, book 5: "The 15th century everything changes. Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating itself... Gutenberg's letters of lead...supersede Orpheus's letters of stone... The invention of printing is the greatest event in history. It is the mother of revolution..." Victor Hugo continued: "Whether it be Providence or Fate, Gutenberg is the precursor of Luther." In A Tramp Abroad, 1880, Mark Twain wrote: "We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main...I would have liked to visit the birthplace of Gutenberg, but...no memorandum of the house has been kept."   Get the book, American Minute - Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred Napoleon introduced the printing press to Egypt when he invaded in 1798. On August 12, 1993, Pope John Paul II gave a rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible to President Bill Clinton at Denver's Regis University. The Pope, with Vice-President Al Gore in attendance, then addressed over 375,000 at Cherry Creek State Park, August 15, 1993: "At no other time in history, the 'culture of death' has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrible crimes against humanity...massive taking of lives of human beings even before they are born... Any reference to a 'law' guaranteed by the Creator is absent...No longer is anything considered intrinsically 'good' and 'universally binding'... Vast sectors of society are confused about what is right and what is wrong and are at the mercy of those with the power to 'create' opinion and impose it on others...." Pope John Paul II continued: "The family especially is under attack... The weakest members of society are the most at risk. The unborn, children, the sick, the handicapped, the old... Do not be afraid to go out on the streets and into public places...This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is a time to preach it from the rooftops...You must feel the full urgency of the task. Woe to you if you do not succeed in defending life." The word "Bible" comes from the Greek word 'biblia' meaning books. Since the invention of the printing press in mid-1400's, the Holy Bible has been the most printed book in all history, at an estimated 6 billion copies. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated October 6, 1935: "The four hundredth anniversary of the printing of the first English Bible is an event of great significance... The...influence of this greatest of books...so greatly affected the progress of Christian civilization... This Book continues to hold its unchallenged place as the most loved, the most quoted and the most universally read and pondered of all the volumes... It continues to hold its supreme place as the Book of books." 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