who said: people should not be afraid of their govenment; government should be afraid of the people?
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Guy Fawkes. circa 1605. Guy Fawkes was a man who believed that the answer to problems with your government was to literally blow it up. Fawkes attempted a bombing of the Houses of Parliament in England on November 5 of 1605, thankfully he was unsuccessful.\n\nIn the 1980's, a graphic novel series was written based on Guy Fawkes, titled "V for Vendetta". The novel, and the recent movie of the same name, twisted the story of Guy Fawkes, setting his actions in an uncertain future, with a government guilty of murdering countless thousands of its own citizens.\n\nIn either case, when is it right for someone to murder or destroy in order to stop others from murdering and destroying? The movie would have you believe that the bombing of buildings and killing of people is acceptable if you disagree with your government, but I submit that terrorism is never acceptable.
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Full quote:\n\n"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."\n\nFear is a very powerful weapon.  When the people of a community or nation are fearful of an outside force threatening their lives they will give up freedoms for the assurance of safety.  It's always easier to incite fear when the enemy is "not one of us."\n\nAs an example....\n\nSome say this is what George W. Bush did over four years ago after September 11, 2001.  The United States was in shock.  An enemy had entered our country, done great damage to property and killed thousands of people.  Nothing of this magnitude had happened like this since Pearl Harbor.\n\nIn an attempt to cut off any future terrorist attacks the President proposed and Congress passed new laws that made sweeping changes in privacy laws allowing oversight and intrusion hitherto not seen before in the U.S.\n\nGenerally a majority of the American public has supported these limitations.  The danger lies, as Madison pointed out, in making sure that these changes are kept in check.
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We must remember that the principal instrument of government is coercion and that our government officials are no more moral, omnipotent, nor omniscient than are any of the rest of us. Once we understand the basic principles which must be observed if freedom is to be safeguarded against government, we may become more hesitant in turning our personal problems and responsibilities over to that agency of coercion, with its insatiable appetite for power
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james madison said that quote
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The best government is the government that governs the least. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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"...I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, - and I won't be laid a hand on.  I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."\n\nJ. B. Books, from the movie THE SHOOTIST
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The quote is attributed to Les Brown. The specific person not identified. \n\n- From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anonymous#S\n\nSee also http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27276.html
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."\n     --HERBERT SPENCER
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"Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."  Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"For an educated man, Mark, you repeat yourself quite a bit. Are you aware of that?" - Prot, K-PAX
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The whole quote is: Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.  ~William Temple
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A wise man once said that democracy is the worst form of government there is , but it's better than all the rest
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voltaire\n\n"I may not agree with what you say but I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it"
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A  loud resounding AMEN, I am sick of hearing stories of people being be hounded by police for miniscule things. Most of them are poor and cant pay the unbelievable fines. Small towns are building their cities revenue by out of town speeders by posting rediculously low speed limits. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT FEAR THEIR GOVERNMENT THE THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD FEAR THE PEOPLE.!!!!!!!!!!   what can we do about it?????????
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Lincoln put it best when he said, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." Also the magnificent words of Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That amongst these are Life., Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  "  Hard to improve on the words of these two statesmen when speaking of America's values.
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I think that this is probably a variation on a quote that I have heard attributed to Mark Twain and Abe Lincoln. I found it also credited to Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson died before Abe and Twain were born, so I give him credit. The quote is as follows...."It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."\n\nIn other words....keep em guessing.
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"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing." \n-Edmund Burke
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The correct quote is\n\n"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre minds." \n\nIt was Einstein