From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 20:56:42 GMT
Hi DMB
Thanks for the quotes, those guys could really
do a good quality long sentence too. I look
forward to the US finding itself again as a democratic
republic. My apologies for our Mr Blair by the way.
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:54 AM
Subject: RE: MD Democracy in the MOQ
> Platt and all lovers of democracy:
>
> Platt, your response was not only predictable, it was exactly the same as
> your response the last five time we went down this road. Surely, you're
just
> as bored with it as I? I could re-post stuff I wrote last year or the year
> before that, but it would probably just put our dear readers to sleep.
> Instead, here are some words to ponder...
>
> "We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
> controlled and dominated Governments in the world -- no longer a
Government
> of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the
> majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of
> dominant men."
> -- Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President during World War I.
>
> "I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
> corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
> strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
> -- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
>
> "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
> me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been
> enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the
money
> power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon
the
> prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and
> the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the
safety
> of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."
> -- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov 21, 1864.
>
> "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the
> people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes
> stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is
fascism -
> ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other
> controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without
> equal in history is growing."
> --President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
>
> "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. And when you're
> inside, and look around, what do you see? Businessmen. Teachers. Lawyers.
> Carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But, until
> we do, these people are still a part of that system. And, that makes them
> our enemy. You have to understand: Most of these people are not ready to
be
> unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the
> system, that they will fight to protect it.
> -- Morpheus (from the movie "The Matrix")
>
> "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe
> the people with their own money."
> -- Alexis de Tocqueville
>
> "Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with
a
> philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by
the
> few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own
sentiments
> and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this
> wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of
> the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It
is,
> therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim
> extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to
the
> most free and most popular."
> -- David Hume. Of the First Principles of Government. 1758.
>
> "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of
> unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military
> Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power
> exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination
> endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for
> granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
> meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
> peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper
> together."
> -- President Eisenhower - January 1961.
>
> "A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to
> supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist
> regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post
in
> Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to
the
> Nazi regime. ... Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do
with
> bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They
extended
> aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep
> it there."
> -- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.
>
> "It is [free] market fundamentalism that has rendered the global
capitalist
> system unsound and unsustainable...market fundamentalism is today a
greater
> threat to open society than any totalitarian ideology."
> -- George Soros in "The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Open Society
> Endangered", 1998.
>
> "We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of
great
> wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both"
> -- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939
>
> "I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
> corparations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
> strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country"
> -- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan in 1816
>
>
>
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