Liberty Tree – Politics and Religion

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“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.]

Liberty Tree quotes

“I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust and prevent those who because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest, from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat. I call upon you: ordinary working men of America, do not let yourselves become weak.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn (June 30, 1975)

“The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience,
knowledge without character, commerce without morality,
science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.”
— Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.”
— Jeffrey R. Snyder – A Nation of Cowards

“My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school.”
— Margaret Mead – Cultural anthropologist and author

“Reaching consensus in a group is often
confused with finding the right answer.”
— Norman Mailer

“The brave man inattentive to his duty,
is worth little more to his country than
the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”
— Andrew Jackson

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.”
— Marcel Proust

“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

“We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
–Omar Bradley – Armistice Day speech 1948

A compilation of quotes from Liberty Tree of Canada