"tulle" <tulle040657@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> vjp2.at@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Nixon was a paranoid schizophrenic like Saddam, Hitler & Stalin.
>> He prolonged the Cold War with his maniacal pompous visitations. He
>> expanded socialism. He and LBJ tolerated dictators that soiled our
>> name and made us look like hypocrits. Now, as a grade-schooler
>> (1966-1972) I thought he was the greatest. I even thought Watergate
>> was a total commie plot. It wasn't until like 1982 that I began to
>> actually believe he was a bad guy, when Reagan showed me what a REAL
>> conservative is all about.
>>
>> - = -
>> Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus
>> BioStrategist
>> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
>> ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully
>> disclaimed.}---
>> [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive
guards]
>> [Yellary Clinton & Yellalot Spitzer: Nasty Together]
>
> You thought Nixon was the greatest before Watergate, and still thought
> that afterwards until 1982? God help us with the younger generation.
> I'm not that much older than you, in 1972 I just starting high school.
> Until now he was the worse president we ever had. The downside is that
> I think Bush is beating him at this point, but I'll let history decide.
>
> If you look into it, in general, both parties have tolerated dictators
> that, at the time, they thought could help us. But in all cases it has
> come back to haunt us. So now we just skip the dictators and do all the
> nasty stuff ourselves. No more getting someone else to torture for us,
> we just go and do it ourselves.
>
> tulle
>
We have for too long ignored the warning words of wisdom from our
forefathers.
"Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another;
that
it must pay with a ****tion of its Independence for whatever it may accept
under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the
condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being
reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater
error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to
Nation.
'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to
discard. -George Wa****ngton, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796"
"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any
****tion
of the foreign world. -George Wa****ngton, Farewell Address, September 19,
1796"
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to
believe
me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly
awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of
the most baneful foes of Republican Government. -George Wa****ngton,
Farewell
Address, September 19, 1796"
"But if we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and
what
we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended
hitherto for very little. -George Wa****ngton, letter to Alexander
Hamilton,
May 8, 1796"
"The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an
habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its
animosity
or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from
its duty and its interest. -George Wa****ngton, letter to Alexander
Hamilton,
May 8, 1796"
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people
by
gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations. -James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying
Convention, June 16, 1788"
"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty
but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be
slaves
themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of
mankind. -Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 5, March 21, 1778"
"Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be
too careful to exclude its influence. -Alexander Hamilton, Pacificus, No.
6,
July 17, 1793"
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is
argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. William Pitt in the House
of
Commons November 18, 1783"
"This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle
becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till
the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no
sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of
this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's
train
wretchedness and oppression. -Thomas Jefferson"
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire
against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy,
more
insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces
as
public enemies, all who question it's methods or throw light upon it's
crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the
Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe..
cor****ations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong
it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth
is
aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. Abraham
Lincoln"
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders
itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.-John
Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814"
"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to
preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not,
I
shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it.
-John
Adams"
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