Would that all belief systems including all religions and all ideologies recognized this one piece of truth.

If only this were a commandment people were willing to live by when a tyranny of creeds begins to shout.

James Fenimore Cooper was a romanticist. He wrote romance - AKA 'make believe'.

"Vices are not crimes so long as through a vice no crimes are committed."

This is an example of conflating terms for ideological convenience: The statement is internally inconsistent insofar as the term 'vice' and 'crime' are conditionally made equal through the phrase 'so long as'. This is sloppy thinking at its worst. 'Vices' are vices, 'crimes' are crimes. Their coincident occurrence doesn't bleed the qualities of one into the other.

This is precisely the sort of conflation, which allows one to "blame 'morality' for tyranny."

Thanks Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Of course ignorance is bliss. False premise. Mystery solved!

Substitute the word 'religion' for the word 'state' and this quote becomes more valid.

Substitute the word 'corporation' for the word 'state' and this quote becomes true.

Elie Kedourie was clearly unfamiliar with philosophy as many self-serving politicians (but I repeat myself) seem to be.

Trite but true.

Fred Holden doesn't exist in Wikipedia as of 9/24/13 12:35PM-PST.

Sounds like Fred Holden has no substantiating data to support that assertion. Data Please.

There's lots of blather out there.

1960s hippies were positive about that as well.

So, ... THAT worked out swell.

It says "... and general welfare of the United States."

It strikes me that the only question raised is the definition of 'United States' and it seems to me that 'United States' means the 'united' 'states' - all of them and 'all' of them.

Then there are the Delusional States but ... it's not referring to them.

"FDR was one of the worst presidents ever" - ?

So that explains why he is the most popular president of the 20th century.

A great quote from a great President!

Clearly John Dobbins hasn't heard that Bin Laden is a little bit dead now.

Corollary: Pretending to be moral is a vice.

That worked really well for Yamamoto didn't it?

Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and communist China all had one thing in common. They all knew that in order to control their populations and carry out mass exterminations, their people had to be disarmed. Let's not forget that history repeats itself. Those atrocities did not occur that long ago, and they continue today in other unarmed nations around the world. Don't be a fool, defend your own life.

Eric Idle is a legend!

i think that if you become one's friend, would you not be only wanting a fitting demise? in other words, you would protect your friends from anything until you couldn't anymore, and that would be fitting.

Mayer Amschel Bauer is his real name, his blood is traced like the other elite families to the Edom/Esau which are the twin brother of Jacob/Israel. So The Bauers/so called Rothchilds are not Jews. They just took this "Red Shield" name (in German) as they tried to steal the identity of the Maccabean Revolt (led by Judas Maccabeus) during the time of the Greeks invading Jerusalem 167160 BC. Study Edomea in history and the Elite will make sense on why they try to steal the Jewish identity and why they stir the world to anti-Semitism - more accurately anti- Jews. In my part this is a great tragedy and in my opinion, very wrong in the eyes of God.

America needs a judge like him

You can count on me Henry.

Why don't we have someone like him in our American Judical system?