Quotes

A dangerous citizen

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 the struggle for independence.

— C.A. Beard

A crisis approaching

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

— Abraham Lincoln

Jack London's "The Iron Heel"

This country belongs to the people who inhabit it

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

— Abraham Lincoln

Gone are the far-off days of worthy debate. Politics today has to be sold to a viewer whose finger is poised over the television zapper. The 1988 campaign set new lows ... [it] also demonstrated the power of image-making in changing a result.

— The Economist

August 17-23, 1991

Facts are a better basis for decisions than ideology.

— Howard Dean

campaign 2004

Guided Missiles

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Religious Conviction

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

— Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

Quoted in "Protecting the Constitution" Michie, 1984

Triumph of Evil

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that enough good men do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

— August Spies

Haymarket anarchist

A tendency in the history of human thought and action

Anarchism is a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy -- and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom.

— Noam Chomsky
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