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HT: The Whited Sepulchre
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"We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it." -- Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) Professor, nuclear strategist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1985
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Wohlstetter.Quote.6371
"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless
against ourselves." -- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) British historian
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Arnold.Toynbee.Quote.CACB
"It is a known fact that the policies of the government today, whether Republican or Democrat are closer to the 1932 platform of the Communist Party than they are to either of their own party platforms in that critical year." -- Walter Trohan
(1903-2003) Chicago Tribune reporter (1929-1972) and bureau chief in Washington, D.C. Source: CHICAGO TRIBUNE, October 5, 1970 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Trohan.Quote.9F58
"Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA." -- David Rockefeller
(1915- ) Internationalist billionaire, CFR kingpin, founder of the Trilateralist Commission, World Order Godfather Source: Wall Street Journal, October 1, 1993
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Rockefeller.Quote.B593
"NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order."
-- Henry Kissinger (1923- ) Former US Secretary of State Source: Aug.1993, Los Angeles Times Syndicate http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Kissinger.Quote.B58F
"Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor." -- John Foster Dulles former Secretary of State http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Foster.Dulles.Quote.5037
"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance." -- Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933), 30th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Calvin.Coolidge.Quote.4C3E
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Heinlein.Quote.0FEF
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Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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The Dallas Morning News sends me a question every week or so. It's called "Sounding Off".
My latest response below.
From: "Landauer, Michael"
To: "Landauer, Michael" Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 3:31:02 PM
Subject: Sounding Off (Central)
too late correction: My response should read "An individual" instead of "Any individual".
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From: "Landauer, Michael"
To: "Landauer, Michael" Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 3:31:02 PM
Subject: Sounding Off (Central)
I have a two-part question for you. Part One will run this weekend, and Part Two will run next weekend. Answer both parts in one email.
Part One:
Should Texas have term limits for the governor's office? What other offices, if any, should be subject to term limits?
Yes - One term, five years, elections held during years that are multiples of five. Any individual may hold the office once for no more than five years.
All federal and state offices should have limits of two terms which can not be served consecutively.
All federal and state offices should have limits of two terms which can not be served consecutively.
Part Two:
Whom do you support in the governor's race (and why)?
Kathie Glass - Libertarian.
Liberty For All.
Libertarianism For Texans.
Liberty For All.
Libertarianism For Texans.
Michael Landauer
Assistant Editorial Page Editor for Reader Engagement
The Dallas Morning News
too late correction: My response should read "An individual" instead of "Any individual".
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Liberty For All,
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.2A6E
"In 1891, [Cecile] Rhodes organized a secret society with members in a "Circle of Initiates" and an outer circle known as the "Association of Helpers" later organized as the Round Table organization. In 1909-1913, they organized semi-secret groups known as Round Table Groups in the chief British dependencies and the United States. In 1919, they founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Similar Institutes of International Affairs were established in the chief British dominions and the United States where it is known as the Council on Foreign Relations. After 1925, the Institute of Pacific Relations was set up in twelve Pacific area countries. They were constantly harping on the lessons to be learned from the failure of the American Revolution and the success of the Canadian federation of 1867 and hoped to federate the various parts of the empire and then confederate the whole with the United Kingdom.
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There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates to some extent in the way the Radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life,
been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." -- Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University Foreign Service School, Washington, D.C., member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mentor to Bill Clinton
Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966, pg 131, 950
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Carroll.Quigley.Quote.BEC7
"The history of government management of money has, except
for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud
and deception." -- Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Fredrich.August.von.Hayek.Quote.F9D3