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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (668120)	1/11/2005 2:09:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"I believe that SCOTUS judges who do change the plain meatning of the Constitution should be impeached." HELL YES! "Lincoln suspended habeous corpus and nobody could challenge their detention. Clearly illegal. No President IMO has extraordinairy emergency powers. FDR tried to declare a never ending National Emergency because of the depression." Presidents (and Kings) ALWAYS seem to use wars to extend their personal powers... perhaps it's something in human nature. ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is always the natural tendency of politicians and bureaucrats to seek to exploit temporary crisis, to expand permanently their powers over the public. "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." - Edmund Burke "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke (1784) "The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Brandeis "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...." "Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, and the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches..." - James Madison "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -H. L. Mencken "What's the Constitution among friends?" - Plunkitt of Tammany Hall "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "Timid men... prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson "When the people fear the government, you have TYRANNY, when the government fears the people, you have FREEDOM" - Thomas Jefferson "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams Patrick Henry spoke these famous prophetic words, as much to us today as to his fellow patriots in 1775: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God" – Susan B. Anthony --------------------------- "An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer." -Thomas Paine (engraved on the headstone of Rose Wilder Lane) "It's tragic that this river of logic has not swept away mankind's dependence on the state. "In spite of prose from the likes of Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, and 20th century giants like von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Lefevre and Rand, we seem further away from a world where individuals are sovereign. Wars rage, tyrants rule, and in the large democracies, the masses vote themselves into bondage." - John Pugsley, Chairman, Sovereign Society ----------------------------