Monday, September 3, 2012

Liberty Quotes


"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one."-- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator Source: attempting to allay the people's fears over the Reichstag's centralization of law enforcement with the passage of the "Enabling Act" on March 23, 1933; (Historian William Shirer attributes this Enabling Act alone as the legal basis for Hitler's dictatorship).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Adolf.Hitler.Quote.3015

"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Vladimir.Lenin.Quote.A588

"If ... our bureaucratic masters are becoming more akin to Soviet-style or Eastern European counterparts, it was rarely seen as a plus that those central schemers had wonderful intentions with their five-year plans. Such goals as 'job safety,' 'equality,' and freedom from 'discrimination,' depending on their definitions, may be good things for society, but they were never intended to be the business of the federal government."-- William P. Hoar Author, columnist, and managing editor of Periscope, the U.S. Naval Institute military database Source: More Leeway for Regulators?, The New American, October 16, 1995.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Hoar.Quote.DB4B

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