I never vote for anyone.
I always vote against.
W.C. Fields



An election is coming.
Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Eliot



Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris



I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott



If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman



The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx



I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George Bush



For too long we've been told about "us" and "them." Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that "they" are the problem, not "us." But there can be no "them" in America. There's only us.
Bill Clinton

We picked up 12 seats in the legislature. It just shows what a good gerrymander can do.
U.S. Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA), quoted in an 11/07/01 CNSN article on the 2001 Virginia state elections

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
--Thich Nhat Han, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening - will clear the path for your Miracles.
--Sumner Davenport

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
--Noah Webster

If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'
Abraham Lincoln

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
--Robert Frost, "The Secret Sits"

How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
--Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawless-ness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging New World Order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long.
--President George Bush (January 1991)

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
--Noah Webster

We are on the verge of global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
--David Rockefeller, To the UN Business Council, 1994

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
--Herman Melville,

So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

The dubiously named "war on terror" was lost the moment the cabal of neo-conservatives usurped power in Washington, descending like a flock of vultures from their warmongering flight. At that moment delusion morphed with ideology, ignorance fused with zealotry and the neo-con artist dream of an Iraqi invasion, already having been trumpeted for years, was put in motion.
-- Manuel Valenzuela, from the essay, "The War of Error"

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
--Charles Sumner

It [The New World Order] cannot happen without US participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
--Henry Kissinger, World Affairs Council Press Conference,
Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, April 19th 1994

cicero?

"dominance is as dominance does. Dominance is not really a strategic policy or political philosophy at all. Rather, it is a seductive illusion that tempts the powerfull to satiate their hunger for still more power by striking a bargain with their consciences. And as always happens sooner or later to those who shake hands with the devil, they find out too late that what they have given up in the barrgain is their soul."

Al Gore.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled. ~ Buddha

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms: George W. Bush [press availability in Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004]

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world: James Baldwin [From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976), page 489 of Collected Essays (1998)]

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees: - Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz

Arthur Medicine Eagle's Elder's Meditation ....

"If there is a shadow of a doubt someplace, that will cause a weakness." --Wallace Black Elk, Lakota



In the Spiritual World there is a spiritual Law. The Law says like attracts like. This means whatever mental picture we hold inside our minds we will attract from the Universe. To make this Law work we must maintain a constant picture. If we picture or vision something, and along with this picture we have doubting thoughts, our vision will not happen and we will get EXACTLY what we picture or vision. The Law always works. A doubting vision will not materialize what we want. A vision without doubt will always happen. This is a spiritual Law.

My Maker, today, let my vision become strong.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
--Christiane Northrup

Do not take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
--Socrates

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
--Tea Rose

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
--Oliver Goldsmith

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
--Abraham Lincoln

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil Gibran

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish writer

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
--Deepak Chopra

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
--Henry Ford

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.
--G. A. Borghese

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
--Norman Vincent Peale

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.... It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
--Benjamin Elijah Mays, American educator (1895-1984)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain, American Author, Humorist

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.
-- John Maxwell

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
-- Amschel Mayer Rothschild

We know in the not too distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control the media. We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of them.
--Time Warner spokesperson.

"And when at last this rebellion compelled the British Government to use the only power that any Government has -- force, used with general consent -- and British troops moved into Boston to restore order, Americans did not consent. They stood up and fought the British Regulars.

"One man began that war. And who knows his name?

"He was a farmer, asleep in his bed, when someone pounded on his door and shouted in the night, 'The troops are coming!'

"What could he do against the King's troops? One man. If he had been the King, that would have been different; then he could have done great things. Then he could have set everything to rights, he could have made everyone good and prosperous and happy, he could have changed the course of history. But he was not a King, not a Royal Governor, not a rich man, not even prosperous, not important at all, not even known outside the neighborhood. What could he do? What was the use of his trying to do anything? One man, even a few men, can not stand against the King's troops. He had a wife and children to think of; what would become of them, if he acted like a fool?

"Most men had better sense; most men knew they could do nothing and they stayed in bed, that night in Lexington. But one man got up. He put on his clothes and took his gun and went out to meet the King's troops. He was one man who did not consent to a control which he knew did not exist.

"The fight on the road to Lexington did not defeat the British troops What that man did was to fire a shot heard around the world, and still heard...

"That shot was the first sound of a common man's voice that the Old World ever heard. For the first time in all history, an individual spoke, an ordinary man, unknown, unimportant, disregarded, without rank, without power, without influence.

"Not acting under orders, not led, but standing on his own feet, acting from his own will, responsible, self-controlling, he fired on the King's troops. He defied a world-empire.

"The sound of that shot said: Government has no power but force; it can not control any man.

"No one knows who began the American Revolution. Only his neighbors ever knew him, and no one now remembers any of them. He was an unknown man, an individual, the only force that can ever defend freedom." : Rose Wilder Lane: from THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM: Man's Struggle Against Authority

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
--Pauline R. Kezer

The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.
--Project for a New American Century, in 1998 - 3 years before 9-11. www.newamericancentury.com

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
--Robert Lynd (1879-1949), Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
--Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948

Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters: African Proverb

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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours: Lord Baden-Powell

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? : St. Augustine

I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." - Admiral Gene LaRocque.

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In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught: Baba Dioum

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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell)

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics: -Robert A. Heinlein

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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear: -Thomas Jefferson

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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. -Thomas Jefferso