Government

| Constitutional Republic | Democracy | In General |

| Marxism | Transformational Marxism |

Constitutional Republic

We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion.  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's ...

John Quincy Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams; 6th President; July 4, 1821

There is but one just use of power and that is to serve people.

Inauguration of George Bush, Sr; 1989

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Calvin Coolidge; 30th President

In free governments, the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns ...

Benjamin Franklin

An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us.  But we shall not fight our battle alone.  There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations.  The battle sir, is not to the strong alone.  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.

Patrick Henry

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religious, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.

Patrick Henry

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

John Jay; first Supreme Court Justice

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate…the minds of the people at large, and more especially, to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that they may…know ambition under all it shapes, and…exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

Thomas Jefferson; 1779

Unless the mass [of people] retains sufficient control over those intrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression ...

Thomas Jefferson; 1812

Lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly.  Do not be frightened into their surrender...

Thomas Jefferson; 1816

In the maintenance of ... (our) principles ... I verily believe the future happiness of our country essentially depends.

Thomas Jefferson; 1819

On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Thomas Jefferson; 1823

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best ... When all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as ... oppressive as the government from which we just separated.

Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

John Locke

I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

General Douglas MacArthur

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation ...

James Madison, 1788

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

James Madison

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens.  They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Justice Joseph Story; A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States; p 326

America, under an efficient government, will be the most favorable country of any in the world for persons of industry and frugality ...

George Washington; 1788

It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible.  Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters.  Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.  Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington in his Farewell Address; 1796

Democracy

It's time to dump or fire all elected or employed members of government who are conspiring to change our Republic to a democracy.  To hell with democracy!

Jim Townsend; newspaper editor; California

How can we vote for candidates who don't know this is a Republic not a democracy?

Jim Townsend; newspaper editor; California

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent force of government.  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse [benefits] from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasure, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always foiled by dictatorship.

Alexander Tyler

In General

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.  It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state.

Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels; Hitler's propaganda minister

It is error alone which needs the support of government.  Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson; Notes on Virginia

Wise men that refuse to participate in the affairs of government are punished by having to live under the rule of fools.

Plato

Who stole our freedom of speech?

Jim Townsend; newspaper editor; California

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.  These nations have progressed through this sequence:  From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Alexander Tyler

Marxism — Communism, Fascism, Nazism

Few of us survived the Joe McCarthy holocaust of the early 1950s and of those there were even fewer whose understanding and insights had developed beyond the dialectical materialism of orthodox Marxism.

Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.  They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals

I represent another Humanist Association—the Communist Party.  For we who are Communist definitely believe in Humanism.

Gus Hall, General Secretary; United States Communist Party

When an opponent declares 'I will not come over to your side', I calmly say 'Your child belongs to us already.  What are you?  You will pass on.  Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp.  In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'

Adolf Hitler, 1939

Communism is socialism in a hurry.

Nicolai Lenin

The chief enemy of Communism is the Christian clergyman.

Nicolai Lenin

Humanism is the denial of God and the total affirmation of man.  Humanism is really nothing else but Marxism.

Karl Marx

I'm in favor of free trade - it breaks up old nationalities.

Karl Marx, 1848

It is enough that the people know there was an election.  The people who cast the votes decide nothing.  The people who count the votes decide everything.

Josef Stalin

Divide the world into regional groups as a transition stage to world government.  Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority.  Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictator.

Josef Stalin, 1942

Transformational Marxism; the quiet revolution.

What is happening in America today and what is happening to Kansas in the great plains is not simply a chance situation in the usual winds of change.  What it amounts to is a total transformation of our society ...

... So we have to anticipate what the future is and then move back and figure out what it is we need to do today.  That's called anticipatory socialization or the social change function of schools ...

... You have to understand the breadth of the task that's before us.  You cannot think about restructuring of education without understanding that our total society is in a crisis of restructuring and you can't get away from it.  You can't go into rural areas, go into the churches, go into government, you can't go into business and hide, for what we are facing is a total restructuring of the society ...

Dr Shirley McCune; National Governors' Association Conference on Education; Wichita, Kansas; 1989

What we know is that the earlier we intervene into the lives of people the cheaper it is.

Dr Shirley McCune; National Governor's Association Conference on Education; Wichita, Kansas; 1989

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.  It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.  But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again know war but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity.

David Rockefeller; Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Bilderberg; Trilateral Commission (TC); June 5, 1991