This infamous and insightful "statesman" received what he deserved for such high minded thinking , the wrath of his countrymen who kicked his corpse down the street. Perhaps some of our brilliant "statesmen" can take a lesson. Your site had a similar quote recently about our "leader's" view of our Constitution. History repeating itself?

Agree

A bit wordy but I agree.What is the reason why this statement is true? I believe it is beacuse of MAN'S EGO!!!

There is Natural Authority and there is Man-Made Authority.Both are lawfull in their own right. Now,you might want to ask yourself: 'What is lawfull'? What have government legislatures determined to be lawfull ? MAN'S LAW VS. GOD'S LAW. That's what EVERYTHING comes down to!

What would you expect from an idiot

DITTO ABOVE!!!!!!

This is not a Liberty Quote in my opinion.It is an Apathy Quote. By action or lack of action,EVERYTHING is what we make of it or allow it to be.Including Democracy. BUT........ In it's PURE UN-Adulterated Form,Democracy is the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community. NOW...... What it has DEGENERATED into is another thing. Ask yourself WHY and you will be on the road to reforming the MAN-made Degenerative application of the pure meaning of Democracy.This is the Second Revolution.

I disagree with this quote also.It is my observation that the individual that wrote this quote was consumed by Apathy as it was written.

The aristocratic infiltration of the American Monetary System has long proved valid. The people of the world are too distracted with more "direct" affairs looking not at what the primary problem is. If Wilson in fact had no outside influences regarding our money, a slew of debaucheries could have been avoided.

Amen!!!!

Reflects the times we live in.

and he's just a lousy f**king president!!!!!!!!!!!!

we are heading into tyranny

Jefferson and Franklin agree. Why aren't we listening to some of the brightest minds in history?

Kafka said this. Not Frank Zappa.

Hmmm. I bet TJ would be writhing in pain and disgust in his grave if he knew what had become of his beloved Republic. What would he say?

If this quote is true and it's context is true then he should be treated as any other American who commits TREASON!!!!!

I wish this were a true quote because I think Bush is our worst pretender ever but ... there seems no independent corroboration except those which quote CHBlue - so it seems a complete fabrication on their part. It's a shame really.

I love Cesare Beccaria. His philosophy on crime and punishment is the most inspiring work of all time.

Unfortunately, since the time of the Egytians (and before), the powers that be have longed to return to the days of kings and slaves. Many attempts have been made since those days. The beheadings of kings and queens have lessened this insane pursuit of absolute control, but it never went away. Now, with RFID, biometrics, internet...The insanity is returning.

Griffin suffers from Birchitis. He can not tell the truth because the John Birch Society doesn't tell it or print it. We have suffered from 100 per cent inflation since 1968. ALL national organizations frpm the girl scouts to the National Rifle Association must keep secrets from their members. The Girl Scouts promote Marx's 8th plank but they don't know that! It calls for: "Equal liability of all to labor." Who doubts that that plank will be implemented when the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified and women will have the same right to avoid the draft That men have? NONE! For a few men to control the wotrld with inflation, fear, lies, illusions, disease and amusements that inhibit clear thinking, the majority must not know what inflation is or that we are conrolled with it. As long as someone keeps lying about inflation rates of less than 10 per cent, the majority will never know that inflation is just bank credit. The Fed said their system of plunder "works only with credit." The more they create, the more credit we must offer for the things that we need. Taxes are illusions that regulate our use of the credit that is erroneously called 'money,' When the reserve requirement for banks was 60 per cent, the other 40 per cent was inflation, When the reserve requirement was reduced to 50 per cent, the other 50 per cent was inflation. When the requirement was reduced to 25 per cent, we had 75 per cent inflation, When the rquirement was reduced to ZERO in 1968, we had 100 per cent inflation ever since! Lies about 5 or 6 per cent inflation conceals the truth that inflation IS "money" and NOT an increase in anything. It is a lie that government spends money. They cannot get money from you or me when all that we have in banks is weightless intangible CREDIT. They never ask for money or need any when all of us will risk or even lose our lives for credit. To make things worse, the perfidious press wants us to believe some countries have 1000 per cent inflation. When they have headlines of inflation, the report is ALWAYS about prices. When headlines are about prices, the reports are always about inflation, With this lying going on for decades, shouldn't most people believe that prices are inflation? Inflation is nothing accepted for something. If you accept a gold or silver coin with a hole in it and ignore the hole, then the hole is nothng accepted forr somethin and is inflation. You could go to an auction and bid 100,000 without a dime in your pocket, If someone else bids more and you quit bidding, the other bidder must "pay" an inflated price due to you offering nothing for somethng. The nothing that you offered was inflation. So everyday and every-where, people are offering nothing (credit) for something, WHILE GOVERNMENT spends NOTHING.. The John Birch Society wants us to believe that our tax dollars are spent and misspent when no tax dollars (weights of silver) are going any where. The dollar was permanently fixed as a weight of silver in the Coinage Act ot 1792. It could be changed only by amendment or by revolution, THERE IS NO SUCH AMENDMENT! We are facing another election that will not change government. A cure for cancer was found 75 years ago. Its suppresion for 75 years is proof that government has not changed. See: www.morpix.biz/rife for the history of the cancer cure.

a cruel man!

There is another quote similar to this but the word religion is substituted with profession. That is Abe was saying that theology is not his profession or expertise.

Screw communism with everyone that knows how! Of course this might mean understanding our present system of democracy for what it really is.

Idiot...