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“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”
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“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.”
― Ich glaube an Europa: Ein Weg aus der Krise, eine Einführung in das europäische Denken
― Ich glaube an Europa: Ein Weg aus der Krise, eine Einführung in das europäische Denken
“[The militia experts] accuse antigoverment agitants of paranoia, yet they spin around and claim that militias speak in coded phrases, have underground bunkers, and are secretly conspiring to take over the world and enslave minorities. They say it`s lunacy that men at the pentagon can conspire, yet they`re certain that farmers out on the plain are plotting as we speak.
They depict the United Nations as weak und ineffectual, yet they portray raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world`s biggest organized military threat. ”
― The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
They depict the United Nations as weak und ineffectual, yet they portray raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world`s biggest organized military threat. ”
― The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
“the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.”
― The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
― The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
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