“Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
— George Orwell
[Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author
Source: “1984” by George Orwell, 1950
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/George.Orwell.Quote.1A0E
“[C]lassical political theory, with its Stoical, Christian, and juristic key-conceptions (natural law, the value of the individual, the rights of man), has died. The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good — anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name ‘leaders’ for those who were once ‘rulers’. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, ‘Mind your own business.‘“
— C. S. Lewis
(1898-1963), British novelist
Source: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State, first published in The Observer on July 20, 1958
“Socialism is the idea that violent force is an appropriate response to peaceful, voluntary exchange.”
— Frank J. Fleming
American columnist, author, satirist
Source: Twitter Oct 13, 2015
[The fella who runs Liberty Tree up in Canada does a fantastic job throughout the year sending daily quotes 5 times a week. Every few months or so he hits a homerun that is so topical it amazes you. America here on 7/27/20 is experiencing a communist insurgency like no other time. All 3 of these quotes deal directly with that attack even though they were written 70 years, 62 years and 5 years ago. Its not that America hasn’t been experiencing socialist attacks the past 100 years, its just that now they are so blatant about it and it has become so mainstream. These 3 are the type of quality of quotes that before I would have first put on Facebook and Gab in the mistaken notion that others might benefit from seeing them. I have since come to the conclusion that people are morons, more interested in factoids than wisdom. More interested in getting upset with AOC, “She’s stupid!” Or wound up about the latest Bill that Pelosi is trying to hustle through the House, than they are in learning from history. But anyway, 2 of these quotes are from the fifties! Telling us 2 things: None of this is new, and secondly, you were warned. You were just too stupid to listen.]
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