QUOTES, ON FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND COURAGE
Where justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey.
James Montgomery
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard, American Historian, 1874-1948
"God who gave us life, gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"
- Thomas Jefferson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King
"It is counter-productive to raise children in a world without consequences."
Temperance Brennan character
Bones - The Bone That Blew
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"There are only two races in the world, the decent and the indecent."
Victor Frankl - Nazi Holocaust survivor
"...populism is always the handmaiden of fascism."
- Hard Little Machine
source; http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/life-under-the-victimocracy/
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TOLERANCE OF EVIL
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."
Karl Popper
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
Thomas Mann
"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.
This is elementary common sense.
If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other.
Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one.
In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
- George Orwell.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- William H. Borah
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Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Matthew 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
John 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
Psalms 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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11 The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence.
Harvest, and sickle.
Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap;
for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth;
for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow;
for their wickedness is great.
Sow.
Reap.
Man does it,
and so does God.
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Each one of us is a 'free agent'.
We can do almost anything we want to do, in this life.
Is God wicked, to test his creation,
to test men ?
Be careful.Be full of care, in what YOU allow.