Cryptic Quotes As Sign-Off Signatures

Robert R. Regl
28 St. Charles Ave.
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Telephone: 601-261-0119
E-Mail: bobregl@yahoo.com


“A great many people believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - William James
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“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.” - Maureen Dowd
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“The G.O.P. put up a candidate that no one liked or understood and ran a campaign that no one liked or understood — a campaign animated by the idea that indolent, grasping serfs must be kept down, even if it meant creating barriers to letting them vote.” - Maureen Dowd
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“If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them– and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.” - Juan Cole
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"All that is left of America is banality and self-delusion." - Noam Chomsky
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“The modern American right-wing doesn’t care about deficits, and never did. All that talk about debt was just an excuse for attacking Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and food stamps.” - Paul Krugman
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"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was" - Mitt Romney
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"When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie." - Robert Higgs
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"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." - George Orwell
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"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu
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“The claim that gas prices are high thanks to an Obama administration plot isn’t just nuts; it’s a sort of craziness triple play — a lie wrapped in an absurdity swaddled in paranoia.” - Paul Krugman
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"Those who don't read the news are uninformed, those who do are misinformed." - Mark Twain
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"When men go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace." - St. Augustine
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“If the top one percent already own wealth equal to ninety percent of the rest of us, then why do they need more wealth before they’ll create jobs?” - Richard Myers
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“The Republican Party years ago made a Faustian bargain with the right-wing Noise Machine. And now it's paying the price.” - Eric Boehlert

“The United States is headed for a plutocratic dystopia where a few gated communities sit like islands amidst a sea of bitterness, misery, and want.” - John Atcheson
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." - General Douglas MacArthur
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"When the purpose of American justice is to shield those with the greatest power who commit the most egregious crimes, while severely punishing those who talk publicly about those crimes, it's hard to imagine how it can get much more degraded or corrupted than that." - Glenn Greenwald
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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy
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"Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare." - Peter Ustinov
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"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." - Frederico Garcia
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"It’s a truism that the ready availability of military capacity increases the circumstances for its use and we can expect perpetual war until we collapse in bankruptcy and, if we are lucky, are able to return to sane relationships with the rest of the world."
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“We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors" - Psalm 123
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"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - Albert Einstein
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"Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and.. the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer." - H. L. Mencken
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"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
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"There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with 'a money touch,' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers:" - Theodore Roosevelt
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"When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty." - Anonymous
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"One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X
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"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." Mother Teresa
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"Newt Gingrich is a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like." - Source obscure
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"People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz" - Newt Gingrich
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“Every act, whether it be individual or corporate, must be judged as right or wrong base solely on whether it enhances or diminishes the life of another. If my action diminishes another, it also diminishes me. A diminished life is never the place where holiness will be found. Diminished lives will never be loving lives.” - John Shelby Spong
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"The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election." - Noam Chomsky
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“Religion is like a swimming pool - all of the noise comes from the shallow end.” - Source obscure
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“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford
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“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” - Susan B. Anthony, 1872.
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“I have no issue with those who do something useful, produce value, and make 100 times more money than me. I have many issues with those who produce nothing, destroy value, make others homeless and poor, scam the entire world, and make 10000 times more money than me. Those must go, along with the insane system that makes their scams possible.” - Giulio Prisco
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"In the past 30 years, the "masters of mankind," as Smith called them, have abandoned any sentimental concern for the welfare of their own society, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonuses, the country be damned -- as long as the powerful nanny state remains intact to serve their interests." - Noam Chomsky
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“Government budgets are not at all like your family's budget. Governments print money, raise taxes and produce multiple waves of income and revenue throughout the economy. Your family budget does none of these things.” - Eric Stone
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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” - Edward Abbey
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"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized." - Steve Allen
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"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high." - Sen. J. William Fulbright
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“The idea that medical care can be reduced to money — that doctors are just ‘providers’ selling services to health care ‘consumers’ is ... sickening. The prevalence of this kind of language is a sign that something has gone very wrong with our society’s values.” - Paul Krugman
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“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.” - Joseph Stiglitz
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"Free-market fundamentalists have been wrong about everything — yet they now dominate the political scene more thoroughly than ever." - Paul Krugman
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"One of the major reasons for government secrecy is to protect the government from its own population." - Noam Chomsky
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"Dictators are easier to deal with than parliaments. One handshake and a kickback, that's all you need with a dictator." - Ted Rall
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"We are kidding ourselves when we believe spying, intrigue, and outright military intervention can maintain our international status as a superpower while our domestic economy crumbles in an orgy of debt and monetary debasement." - Ron Paul
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“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson
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"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James
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"Torture is not designed to elicit truth, but to produce false confessions."
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"How can the government put a person in jail for torturing dogs but turn a blind eye to members of the government who tortured people?" - Paul Craig Roberts
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"The United States today is like a cruise ship on the Niagara River upstream of the most spectacular falls in North America. A few people on board have begun to pick up a slight hiss in the background, to observe a faint haze of mist in the air on their glasses, to note that the river current seems to be running slightly faster. But no one yet seems to have realized that it is almost too late to head for shore. Like the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, imperial German, Nazi, imperial Japanese, British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Soviet empires in the last century, we are approaching the edge of a huge waterfall and are about to plunge over it." - Chalmers Johnson
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"In Democratic societies ... the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think. ... One of the ways you control what people think is by creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, but making sure that that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then you can have a debate". - Noam Chomsky
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." - Noam Chomsky
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." - Gore Vidal
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." - David Hume
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"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." - Aesop
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"Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq." - Adil E. Shamoo
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington
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“There is never a good reason to collaborate in one’s own destruction.” - Bob Herbert
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" If Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and the others such as Sharron Angle, Michelle Bachman, Ann Coulter, and other Republican members of Congress were brought before a competent psychiatric board, and asked to explain their beliefs, they would be found to be profoundly delusional and locked up in an institution for their own safety and the safety of others." - Ed Martin
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass ... it’s learning to dance in the rain.” - Source Unknown
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"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes
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"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably." - Immanuel Kant
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"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality." - John F. Kennedy
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"Like ugly on a toad, banker greed just can't be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory soap you use." - Jim Hightower
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"What we have found in this country, is that people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, are there by choice." - Ronald Reagan [1984]
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"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." - Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
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"Can we truly expect that those who aim to exploit us can be trusted to educate us?" - Eric Schaub - Individualist, activist, speaker, author
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"Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism & ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR: message to Congress proposing the monopoly investigation, 1938
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"Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the USA!" - Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street - 1987
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"The fact is that much of the financial industry has become a racket — a game in which a handful of people are lavishly paid to mislead and exploit consumers and investors." - Paul Krugman
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"It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do." - Andrew Greeley
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"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property." - Harold Laski
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"The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." - Thomas Jefferson
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." - Plutarch
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"If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." - Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief Prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
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"Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship." - Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist

"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information." - Albert Einstein
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Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person. - Jan Edwards and Molly Morgan, in “Abolish Corporate Personhood” (http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/edwards_morgan_corporate.html)
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“Wealth doesn’t trickle down; bad behavior does.” - Jim Wallis
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." - Thomas Jefferson
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"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights -- which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state." - Gerry Spence Lawyer and author. Source: Give Me Liberty, 1998
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"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." - 1 Timothy 6:9-10
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"More often than not, the United States has intervened to protect the corporations who own the world from the people who live in it." - Kevin Carson
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"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies", "one against all", that a fundmental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man." - Hannah Arendt, from her book The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.227
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"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God." - Benjamin Franklin
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"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
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"It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want." - Harry Browne
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"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles, 430 B.C.
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"Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty." - Rutherford B. Hayes
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"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security." - Michael Lerner
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"Religion is What Keeps the Poor from Murdering the Rich" - Napoleon Bonaparte
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"If they do it, it's terrorism, if we do it, it's fighting for freedom." - Anthony Quainton, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1984
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"The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers-not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man." - Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy (1922)
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" - Robert F. Kennedy (paraphrasing a reflection by G.B. Shaw)
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"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
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"No man survives when freedom fails,
The best men rot in filthy jails,
And those who cry 'appease, appease'
Are hanged by those they tried to please." - Hiram Mann
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"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members" - Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1844
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara
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“Goldman-Sachs is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” - Matt Taibbi
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"It is not wise for the Christian white
To hustle the Asian brown;
For the Christian riles
And the Asian smiles
And weareth the Christian down.

At the end of the fight lies a tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased;
And the epitaph drear,
A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East." - Rudyard Kipling
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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"Whether you are White, Black, Hispanic, Asian or of mixed heritage; that’s simply who you are; it is cause for neither shame nor pride, but it is a baffling fact that there are some seemingly normal people who ACTUALLY CHOOSE to be Republicans." - Robert R. Regl
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"And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man's arse." - Montaigne
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"Greed is human nature. We shouldn't blame greed any more than you'd blame gravity when a plane has an accident and goes down." - Senator Charles Grassley
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"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos." - Kerry Thornley
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"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service." - General Smedley Butler. USMC (Ret.)
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"I'll put it to you this way, you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." - Jesse Ventura
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"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
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"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom." - Oswald Spengler
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"Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." - Thomas Jefferson
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"You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal." - John De Armond
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
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"When Cicero spoke, the people said 'How well he spoke.' When Demosthenes spoke, the people said 'Let us march.'" - Source obscure
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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich" - Napolean Bonaparte
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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) Founder of Ford Motor Company
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"The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for." - Bill Bonner - Editor of The Daily Reckoning - April 3, 2003
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"Members of Congress should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors." - Author Unknown
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"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself" - J K Galbraith
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“Democracies die behind closed doors.” - Judge Damon Keith
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
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“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say: and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” - Oliver Cromwell, address to the Rump Parliament, April 20, 1653
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"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy
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"These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest." - Samuel Johnson
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"So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious." - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington
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"Our dominant media are ultimately accountable only to corporate boards whose mission is not 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' for the whole body of our republic, but the aggrandizement of corporate executives and shareholders." — Bill Moyers
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"... We are the greatest city, the greatest nation, nothing like us ever was" - Carl Sandburg, Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
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"Let's clear this up once and for all; murders and kidnappings, with the exception of those that involve prominent public individuals or mass segments of society, are NOT national news events. There are over 20,000 murders each year in this nation and thousands of persons including children go missing. Each incident is not a national news event. While the issue of missing persons is a national news event, each missing person is not worthy of national news coverage. The same goes for murders. The national news media has replaced the supermarket tabloid in this nation. We are here to make sure you do not get distracted by this. Think about it!" - Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org
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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." - William Blake
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." - John Adams
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"News is what people want to keep secret; everything else is publicity." - Bill Moyers
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"To avoid rioting in the Muslim world, the answer is not for the press in the United States to muzzle itself. The answer is for the United States to stop torturing Muslims." - Matthew Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive
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"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner
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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush
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"We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force." - George W. Bush, Radio Address Mar. 8, 2003
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"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people." - Frank Kent
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
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"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." -Thomas Jefferson
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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." - Aldous Huxley
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"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." - Edward Zehr
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
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"Reading the latest grim headlines brought to you courtesy of the Bush/GOP Politburo, we mused that we can't even remember when we had American leadership that offered us hope instead of grim, macabre despair -- and a daily dose of lies." - Editor of the Buzz Flash blog
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"[George W.] Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions -- crimes soaked with human blood -- have any meaning or truth." - Chris Floyd
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda
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"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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"There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?" - Erasmus of Rotterdam 1469-1536, Adages IV.i.1
Bob Regl


"Like all despots George W, Bush fancies himself as chosen by God to impose his will upon the world. This is clearly demonstrated in this statement he made to a group of Old Order Amish during his visit to Lancaster County, PA on July 9, 2004, 'I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.' His delusional state is his personal misfortune - that so many among us are duped by his grotesque distortions of reality is a national tragedy." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - G.B. Shaw
Bob Regl


"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill
Bob Regl


"War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism." - Philip Berrigan
Bob Regl


The president has adopted a policy of 'anticipatory self-defense' that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy. - Arthur Schlesinger.
Bob Regl


NUMBER THREE

Robert R. Regl
28 St. Charles Ave.
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Telephone: 601-261-0119
E-Mail: bobregl@yahoo.com
Bob Regl


"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities," - Voltaire
Bob Regl


"Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on 'moral issues.'" - Maureen Dowd
Bob Regl


"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9
Bob Regl


"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations." - Ambrose Bierce
Bob Regl


"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs" - Albert Einstein
Bob Regl


"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
Bob Regl


"We thought because we had power, we had wisdom" - Stephen Vincent Binet
Bob Regl


"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything" - Joseph Stalin
Bob Regl


"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." - Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
Bob Regl


"You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damn greedy." - Herbert Hoover
Bob Regl


"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service." - Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
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"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." - Mark Twain - Chronicle of Young Satan
Bob Regl


"No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
Bob Regl


"It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know--or care--about circumstances in the colonies" - Bertrand Russell
Bob Regl


"The president has adopted a policy of 'anticipatory self-defense' that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy" - Arthur Schlesinger
Bob Regl


"... there's a philosophical point they [conservatives] want to drive home, which is that they don't like anything that involves some kind of mutual risk-sharing -- you know, pooling our wealth to help each other." - Barbara Ehrenreich
Bob Regl


"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." - Aristotle
Bob Regl


"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Bob Regl


"The US could have promoted democracy in Iraq peacefully, but then they wouldn't have permanent bases in the country, would they?" - Blogger Riverbend
Bob Regl


"Mind like parachute. Only function when open." - Charlie Chan
Bob Regl


"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." - George W. Bush to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen in June, 2003
Bob Regl


"And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war." - Aristotle, Politics
Bob Regl


"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy ... The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States." - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Sixth Secretary General of the U.N.
Bob Regl


"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience…therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." - Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
Bob Regl


"Hypocrisy with regard to the sanctity of life has long been a feature of official U.S. rhetoric." - David Ray Griffin
Bob Regl



Robert R. Regl
28 St. Charles Ave.
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Telephone: 601-261-0119
E-Mail: bobregl@yahoo.com
Bob Regl


"Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power." - Baron Wessenberg
Bob Regl


"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Bob Regl


"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!" - Stephen Decatur
Bob Regl


"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - Harry S. Truman
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - William O. Douglas
Bob Regl


"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs" - Albert Einstein
Bob Regl


"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
Bob Regl


"...the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, Hitler's chosen successor for ruling Nazi Germany during World War II; quote from the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1946
Bob Regl


"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith
Bob Regl


"If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Bob Regl


"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
Bob Regl


"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" - Frederick Douglass
Bob Regl


"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." - Adolph Hitler
Bob Regl


"I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic." - Scott Ritter
Bob Regl


"The money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all the wealth is aggregated into a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
Bob Regl


"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts." - Euripides
Bob Regl


"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable." : U.S. historian Howard Zinn, 1993
Bob Regl


"We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy." - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
Bob Regl


"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Bob Regl


"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." - James A. Garfield
Bob Regl


"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
Bob Regl

"Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well." - Maureen Dowd
Bob Regl


"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right." - George W. Bush
Bob Regl


"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire, and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." - Tacitus, Roman historian, c. 55-120 A.D.
Bob Regl


"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." - Haile Selassie
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Robert R. Regl
28 St. Charles Ave.
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Telephone: 601-261-0119
E-Mail: bobregl@yahoo.com

"With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along." - Michael Parenti
Bob Regl


"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." - H.L. Mencken
Bob Regl


"Lacking some unexpected dramatic event I am not sanguine concerning the survival of our country in a form worthy of the respect of decent men." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"Mr. Bush has an intriguing way of coping with reality; instead of facing it as a rational adult he childishly denies its existence. His delusional state is his personal misfortune - that so many among us are duped by his grotesque distortions of reality is a national tragedy." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"One can always contrive a justification for screwing the powerless." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"Tyrants can always contrive a justification for screwing the powerless." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"Innocents are always killed during the insanity of war. We have to be very sure that such carnage has an overriding moral justification so persuasive that we would be willing to trade places with the victims of these mistakes in order to achieve those just ends. If we are not able to honestly make this claim then we are not justified in visiting that carnage on others." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"War is never glorious - it is always dehumanizing and for that reason we must be certain that participation in the madness is unquestionably necessary and justifies the cost in dollars, death and devastated lives." - Robert R. Regl
Bob Regl


"When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding." - Proverbs 28:12
Bob Regl


"I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." - Admiral Gene LaRocque
Bob Regl


"In the political realm repeated instances of hypocrisy can become consistency." - Source obscure
Bob Regl


"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." - G.B. Shaw
Bob Regl


"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." - George W. Bush
Bob Regl


"What does the American public think happens when they tell us to assault a city? Marines don't shoot rainbows out of our asses. We fucking kill people." - unidentified U.S. Marine commenting on civilian casualties
Bob Regl


"There's an old saying in Tennessee ... uhh ... I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on ... er ... shame on you. Fool me ... uhh ... you can't get fooled again ... heh, heh, heh." - George W. Bush
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"... to pretend that our civilian war-making leaders are right - when they are so clearly, demonstrably, damnably wrong - is to relinquish any responsibility as citizens in a democracy and to lose some irretrievable part of one's humanity in the process." - Alan Bisbort
Bob Regl


"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
Bob Regl


"We want democracy in Lebanon to succeed. And we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power." - George W. Bush, March 5, 2005
Bob Regl


"The America we believe in can't survive another four years of George Bush." - Moby
Bob Regl


"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift
Bob Regl


"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Bob Regl


"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." - Bernard M. Baruch
Bob Regl


"I'm the commander in chief, see, I don't need to explain, I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting part about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." - George W. Bush ... quoted in "BUSH AT WAR" by Bob Woodward
Bob Regl


"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson
Bob Regl


"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." - Martin Niemoller, German Protestant Pastor, 1892-1984
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" - Plato
Bob Regl


"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag." - Huey Long
Bob Regl


"Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically…" - William L. Shirer
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