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TriTorch's avatar

"If you don't plan your own life, someone else will plan it for you." ―unknown

"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves" ―Edward R. Murrow

"Every citizenry has the government they deserve" ―Joseph de Maistre

"Power without oversight is the fastest route out of a replublic" ―unknown

"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over." —Carl Sagan

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." —Tex Guinan

"The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. " —Edward Abbey

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ―Plato

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Barbara Lee's avatar

The smartest, cleverest, healthiest people I know are my neighbors (Amish) who have no electricity therefore no TV, no cell phones, no social media and are committed to attending church, support the community with a work day a week, and support themselves farming ie hard labor. They eat what they grow or raise and they use herbal medicine unless it is something very serious. They may be committed to a life that seems to us quite restrictive, they do it by making conscious, informed and intelligent choices, not blindly following a cult leader. And in so doing, they have escaped all the evils of our modern technologically advanced body and soul destroying culture.

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