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    [Citation needed] -- Misattributed and made up quotes

    I've been wanting to start this thread for awhile and this article was my motivation. I must have seen that Woodrow Wilson quote 5 times in the first 20 posts the comments, and he never even said it, which I didn't know until Green said so!

    Fed Official Who Helped Orchestrate QE: 'I'm Sorry, America,' QE Really Was A Huge Wall Street Bailout
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-of...140558385.html

    "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
    -Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence

    .....................................

    Thomas Jefferson never said this either:

    "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

    ...................................

    And that old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times" is also BS.

    .................................

    Put them here if you're wondering or got 'em!
    Last edited by Lucille; 03-22-2014 at 11:06 AM.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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    I just remembered this one!:

    "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
    -- Benito Mussolini

    Nope. Never said it.

    http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com...d-corporatism/

    http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/corporatism.html
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    Here's a false William Jennings Bryan quote:


    "As far as the Democratic Party was concerned, Woodrow Wilson was without influence, save for the patronage he possessed. It was Bryan who whipped Congress into line on the tariff bill, on the Panama Canal tolls repeal, and on the currency bill." Mr. Bryan later wrote, "That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law."

    The part in bold is a false quote. Eustace Mullins spread around that piece of fiction. William Jennings Bryan never said it.


    Source:
    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...Jennings-Bryan
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    "The problem with quotes from the internet is it is hard to verify their authenticity"-- Abraham Lincoln..
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    “There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.” -JFK

    http://www.metabunk.org/threads/debu...child-jfk.319/

    "One day after I am long gone, you will remember me and say, we should have stopped the nuclear program of Israel, abolished the Federal Reserve and kicked all secret societies, occultists, usurpers and Zionists out of our wonderful country, to keep it that way, but it is never too late, just remember that."-JFK

    http://www.metabunk.org/threads/debu...srael-jfk.638/

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    God helps those that help themselves.
    the Bible
    It ain't in there,, anywhere.
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    God helps those that help themselves.
    the Bible
    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    It ain't in there,, anywhere.
    Interesting:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_hel...elp_themselves

    The phrase originated in ancient Greece and may originally have been proverbial. It is illustrated by two of Aesop's Fables and a similar sentiment is found in ancient Greek drama. Although it has been commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the modern English wording appears earlier in Algernon Sidney's work.

    The phrase is often mistaken as scriptural, but it appears nowhere in the Bible. Some Christians have criticized the expression as being contrary to the Bible's message of God's grace. A variant of the phrase, however, can be found in the Quran (13:11).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucille View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Acala View Post
    I have yet to see a reliable source for this quote
    I assume Barlett and Steele are well-sourced, but I haven't been able to find the recording in which Brussell allegedly said it-#422-in the archive yet, and the transcript site is suspended http://www.worldwatchers.info/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi .
    Last edited by Lucille; 05-22-2014 at 05:57 PM.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee

    Not from Ezekiel 25:17

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    "They can march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes."
    --Alexander Haig

    Like most, repeated often, unsourced, but true!
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    Besides "misattributed" and "made up" quotes, another species of "bad quotes" for which we should be alert are statements that have been poorly presented and/or translated (perhaps maliciously so) - statements which are then provided out of context in order to make it appear that the source is saying something other than what was actually intended.

    A perfect example of this is a "quote" by Ludwig von Mises which was recently posted here at RPFs - apparently so that the poster could then "expose" and denounce Mises as a "racist." From the thread OP of http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...Mises-a-racist:
    Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard101 View Post
    Was Mises a racist?

    I've been reading some quotes and I'm starting to wonder if he actually was one.

    "It is perfectly legitimate to assume that the races are different in their cognitive abilities and in their willpower and accordingly are unequally suited for the task of setting up societies, and that the better races are characterized in particular by their special ability to strengthen social bonds."

    Source: Ludwig von Mises, The Market Economy, trans. Danny Lewis, (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1932), p. 297

    Seems like he's a racist just like [snip]
    The OP proceeded to insist later in the thread that this "quote" could NOT be understood as anything other than an expression of "racist" sentiment by Mises - and that neither context nor the "prevailing attitudes of the day" could possibly make any difference at all.

    In post #43 of that thread, I provided a detailed break-down of what Mises had actually said:
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    "The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy."
    Source: Abraham Lincoln, Using the Internet (Land of Oz: Dewey Cheatham & Howe, 1808), p. 666


    From the OP:
    Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard101 View Post
    "It is perfectly legitimate to assume that the races are different in their cognitive abilities and in their willpower and accordingly are unequally suited for the task of setting up societies, and that the better races are characterized in particular by their special ability to strengthen social bonds."

    Source: Ludwig von Mises, The Market Economy, trans. Danny Lewis, (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1932), p. 297
    Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus by Ludwig von Mises was originally published in German in 1922 (Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1922). Die Gemeinwirtschaft was translated into English by J. Kahane and published in 1936 under the title "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis" (London: Cape, 1936). This translation was based on the second reworked German edition of 1932 (Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932). The English translation was reworked with the participation and approval of Mises himself and published in 1951 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951). [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_%28book%29]

    I have not been able to establish the provenance of the translation offered in the OP's citation. Perhaps it is some sort of "personal" or "private" translation rendered by someone named "Danny Lewis" who used the second reworked German edition of 1932 - and who translated the title as "The Market Economy" rather than "Socialism" (a literal translation of "Die Gemeinwirtschaft" would be "the social economy").

    IOW: The quote in the OP is NOT what Mises actually said - it is what this "Danny Lewis" person says he said. RED FLAG!

    In the 1951 translation (which is considered standard, as it was published under the imprimatur of Mises himself), the statement attributed to Mises in the OP is actually rendered as follows:
    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig von Mises
    It may be assumed that races do differ in intelligence and will power, and that, this being so, they are very unequal in their ability to form society, and further that the better races distinguish themselves precisely by their special aptitude for strengthening social co-operation.
    [snip]
    In the snipped remainder of that post, I supplied the full context of Mises's (actual) statement and demonstrated exactly why he had made that remark (which had clearly been mistranslated by the OP's "source" - quite possibly deliberately and maliciously). I also pointed out that "scientific race theory" was one of the "prevailing attitudes of the day" - which was why Mises was addressing the issue in the first place.

    As it turns out, Mises's purpose was NOT to endorse or agree with the "assumption" specified in the remark, but rather the opposite - it was to categorically and emphatically deny that any such "assumption" by the "scientific race theorists" of his day could ever stand against (classical) liberal or libertarian principles (not even if they were assumed to be true - an assumption Mises did NOT actually accept).

    The full post explaining all this can be found here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post5567096

    The moral of this story is this: When you don't have any context or facts to back them up, don't peddle dubious, out of context "quotes" around (even if they have a fancy source attribution line attached to them) - and especially do not "double down" when you are called out on them. Otherwise, you might very well end up making yourself look like an ignorant and jabbering fool. In cases such as this, more than just a citation is required - one must also know and understand the context as well. The "misquoters" are counting on other people (like the OP of the "seems like Mises is a racist" thread) to be impressed with their fancy "citations" - and to just swallow their misrepresented and out-of-context bull$#@! without bothering to look any further into the matter. Don't let yourself be one of those other people ... (especially when the good reputation of a great man such as Ludwig von Mises is at stake ...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    The moral of this story is this: When you don't have any context or facts to back them up, don't peddle dubious, out of context "quotes" around (even if they have a fancy source attribution line attached to them) - and especially do not "double down" when you are called out on them. Otherwise, you might very well end up making yourself look like an ignorant and jabbering fool. In cases such as this, more than just a citation is required - one must also know and understand the context as well. The "misquoters" are counting on other people (like the OP of the "seems like Mises is a racist" thread) to be impressed with their fancy "citations" - and to just swallow their misrepresented and out-of-context bull$#@! without bothering to look any further into the matter. Don't let yourself be one of those other people ... (especially when the good reputation of a great man such as Ludwig von Mises is at stake ...)
    Nicely done! I have to spread some rep around.

    Your post convinces me that the thread title is insufficient. Maybe it should read: [citation needed] - Unsourced, misattributed, made up, or out-of-context quotes.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    Sola_Fide once used two fake quotes and attributed them to a Pope and a Catholic publication:

    Quote Originally Posted by eduardo89 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Sola_Fide View Post

    2. Calvin, never in a million years, would say this:

    "The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in heaven and earth."

    - Barclay Cap. XXVII, p. 218. Cities Petrus Bertrandus, Pius V.
    "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, he is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh."

    -Catholic National Register July 1895
    Both those quotes are fake.

    This is a complete distortion of what was actually written, wickedly spread by anti-Catholic sites. The actual statement comes from Pope St. Pius V's Bull Against [Queen] Elizabeth / Regnans in Excelsis (27 April 1570). It begins:

    Pius Bishop, servant of the servants of God, in lasting memory of the matter.

    He that reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and earth, has committed one holy Catholic and apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, namely to Peter, the first of the apostles, and to Peter's successor, the pope of Rome, to be by him governed in fullness of power.
    The phrase is about God, not about the pope:

    1) God, the one that reigns on high.

    2) "To whom is given all power in heaven and earth" -- obviously referring to Jesus, about Whom this is stated in Scripture.

    3) . . . has committed [the Church] . . .

    4) " to one alone upon earth, . . . Peter's successor"

    It's been quoted radically out of context and with a completely invented addition, by people with an agenda who don't care about accuracy. Another phrase in the Bull also clearly distinguishes between the pope and God:

    . . . we (who by God's goodness are called to the aforesaid government of the Church) . . .

    Catholics have never believed that the pope is God. That's utterly ridiculous. It is a damnable lie spread by anti-Catholics.
    http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2011/...deceitful.html


    and the National Catholic Register started publication in 1927, so a quote from 1895 is impossible.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Catholic_Register

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    http://takimag.com/article/the_wises...#axzz39GE4jkVZ

    Whenever the Democrats whip up a feminist frenzy to win elections, as in 1992 and 2012, I’m reminded of a deflationary joke I’ve always seen attributed to a 1970s secretary of state. For example, premier gossip columnist Liz Smith wrote in 1988:

    “‘Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy,’ said Henry Kissinger.”

    But I’ve often wondered: did Henry Kissinger really say that?

    Well, I finally found out.
    [...]
    Many of the most famous quotes in history turn out to be misattributions. For example, there’s no evidence that either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill said “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
    [...]
    So I asked Garson O’Toole of QuoteInvestigator.com if Kissinger really originated this witticism.

    The first version O’Toole could find was anonymous column filler in a 1944 Lubbock, TX newspaper. He next discovered it popping up in Covina, CA the next year. By 1953, publisher Bennett Cerf was attributing it to New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber, whose favorite theme was the war between men and women. Soon Ann Landers was circulating it.

    The linkage to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger appears to have been the responsibility of President Gerald Ford and his favorite speechwriter, professional gagman Robert Orben (who is still alive at 87). [...]

    Ford enjoyed exploiting the fact that he didn’t look quick-witted, specializing in deadpan one-liners like, “If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be spinning in his grave.”

    As my commenter Bill pointed out to me last year, a 1975 People article attributes Ford’s line to Orben’s speechwriting skills:

    A great philosopher once said—I think it was Henry Kissinger—nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
    Yogi Berra

    Oh wait, he really said that.



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  20. #17
    "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire.

    No evidence that he ever said or wrote this. But he almost certainly would have endorsed it. He was that kind of guy.
    The proper concern of society is the preservation of individual freedom; the proper concern of the individual is the harmony of society.

    "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." - Byron

    "Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." - Milton

  21. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by ChristianAnarchist View Post
    My goodness!! Can't we all "JUST GET ALONG" (famous quote)...
    A famous misquote, ya mean!



    The line has been often misquoted as, "Can we all just get along?" or "Can't we all just get along?" King did not use the word "just" or "Can't" in his original statement.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  22. #19
    Play it again, Sam.

    Similar words were said in Casablanca, but not those exact words.



    Movie trivia.
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCount View Post
    ...I believe that when the government is capable of doing a thing, it will.
    Quote Originally Posted by Influenza View Post
    which one of yall fuckers wrote the "ron paul" racist news letters
    Quote Originally Posted by Dforkus View Post
    Zippy's posts are a great contribution.




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  23. #20
    This song goes here. DH and I were trying to figure them out yesterday and had to go to the video lyrics.

    "I couldn't understaaaand!"



    Published on Jul 31, 2013
    Because no-one knows the words.

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1733

    This song is about an incident that took place on October 4, 1986, when the CBS news anchor Dan Rather was attacked on a New York City sidewalk by a crazed man yelling "Kenneth, what is the frequency." The man turned out to be William Tager, who was caught after he killed a stagehand outside of the Today show studios on August 31, 1994. Tager, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, said he was convinced the media was beaming signals into his head, and he was on a mission to determine their frequencies.

    When Michael Stipe wrote the lyrics, Tager had not yet been identified as Rather's assailant. He wrote the song after becoming intrigued by the case and the media reaction to it, calling it "The premier unsolved American surrealist act of the 20th century."
    [...]
    Lead singer Michael Stipe says this is an attack on the media, who over-analyze things they don't understand.
    Last edited by Lucille; 10-09-2016 at 09:18 AM.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  24. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by Lucille View Post
    And that old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times" is also BS.
    This one is legit. I read it on a fortune cookie.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  25. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by AZJoe View Post
    This one is legit. I read it on a fortune cookie.
    http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/m...ing-times.html

  26. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by AZJoe View Post
    This one is legit. I read it on a fortune cookie.
    That was a joke silly.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

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    Last edited by Danke; 09-19-2016 at 11:10 AM.
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  29. #25
    If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
    Churchill never said it.
    Stop believing stupid things

  30. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by Tywysog Cymru View Post
    Churchill never said it.
    I did not know that, thanks! More fake Churchill quotes: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/reso...ely-attributed
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  31. #27
    Let's play a little game,

    The 90's TV show, that is now being rerun as "Sex and the City", how many remember it as "Sex in the City"?

  32. #28
    The perversion of language. Does it go here?



    ^That's legit.

    Doug Casey on the Recent Corruptions of the English Language
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/...t-corruptions/

    Let’s discuss words. Many of the words you hear, especially on television and other media, are confused, conflated, or completely misused. Many recent changes in the way words are used are corrupting the language. The corruption of language is adding to the corruption of civilization itself.

    Words are extremely important because they provide the most important means we have to communicate with each other. If you don’t mean what you say and say what you mean, then it’s impossible to communicate accurately. Do you remember that famous line at the end of Cool Hand Luke, when Paul Newman gets shot? “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”? That’s what I want to talk about.

    Where shall I start, because there are over a million words in English? I’ve rather arbitrarily chosen a few that are especially relevant to investors and freedom lovers. Many of these words are popular with the political classes.
    Doug Casey on the Recent Corruptions of the English Language, Part II
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/...pened-justice/
    Below, Doug continues his discussion on the misuse of words…and why it’s adding to the corruption of civilization itself…
    “Terrorism” and Lexical Warfare
    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...exical-Warfare

    Conclusion

    The transformation of the word “terrorist” has shifted focus from the raw reality of state violence onto the mere possibility of individual violence, which is defined broadly enough to include dissent. In a stunning lexical victory, the police state has become the victim. Those who peacefully exercise their natural rights have become the terrorists.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  33. #29
    Let them eat cake
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

    Fraser points out in her biography that Marie-Antoinette was a generous patroness of charity and moved by the plight of the poor when it was brought to her attention, thus making the statement out-of-character for her.[8] This makes it unlikely that Marie-Antoinette ever said this.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  34. #30
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    Pfizer Macht Frei!

    Openly Straight Man, Danke, Awarded Top Rated Influencer. Community Standards Enforcer.


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    The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

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