Yesterday's Quotes Still Apply Today

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Eric Douglas Carlson — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:57:02 GMT

Abuse of power is what happens when greed meets need. Governments, corporations, businesses, groups and individuals are all capable of such abuse. It is the purpose of government to provide for the common good. The Commons are those parts of a society/nation from which all benefit. No one has the right to abuse the Commons. For this reason governments regulate. It is the responsibility of citizens in a democratic republic to regulate their regulators. Unlimited profit leads to a concentration of power outside of the ability of the citizenry to regulate. Due to greed this always results in abusive dominance, For this reason a graduated form of taxation is necessary. No person with a complex idea can execute that idea by themselves. The expression of that idea is dependent on the equal partnership of capital and labor. Therefore any form of business that does not provide equal concern for both its investors and its workers is inherently exploitative. We the people must therefore regulate businesses in their relations to investors and labor with equal concern for the benefits of both. These things cannot be done without a strong government but strong government means that a balance between central and local issues must be maintained or government, too becomes abusive. There are no simplistic solutions. Our only security is a concerned and active citizenry. Don't Follow, Lead!

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Nat_living — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:35:06 GMT

Wow, I'm kindof surprised that someone so Enlightened in MOST ways as Dr. Mercola would print so many quotes for a BIG BIZ lobbyists like P.J and Ronny (Rayguns)......I can't say that I'd put Jefferson, Twain and O'Rourke/Reagon (is there a difference?) in the same boat.

O'Rourke/Reagon's take is the "Trickle Down Theory" (Archie Bunker's Tinkle Down Theory) that if you enrich certain favored groups of Amercans enough (i.e. Pharm./War Machine/Big Oil) that everyone will benefit (i.e. the Biggest Shift in US wealth in history during the 80s). Meanwhile P.J.'s big on NOT having ANY regulations for these Wolves to rob from the working class even more!

We need Robin Hood back...........? NeoCons are NOT Libertarian OR Conservative - ask Ron Paul.

How did REAGON get to be a spokesman for small government ? Bush and Reagon have been the biggest spenders in US History..............

"The USA can no longer afford the Rich.............." (over 500 - $300million/year CEO/Stock barons - while the working class jobs get sent overseas to enrich them......)

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GRAYWOLF — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:04:56 GMT

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. And like fire it is a dangerous servant and a horrible task master.”

-George Washington

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

-Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?

-Thomas Jefferson

One of the most idiotic comments that always pops up when someone talks about how this country is being destroyed by unconstitutional government nonsense is: "if you don't like it, leave!" If we didn't like this country we wouldn't be have an issue with it being destroyed. A much more logical and appropriate position would be, "if you want a government not constrained by a constitution, move where that already exists instead of ruining the greatest country on this planet."

The truth is that the government can do very little well. When it ignores the Constitution and interferes with too many things, it gets too spread out and can not even do those few things well.

Ron Paul is the only one in DC deserving of being there. He is in no way perfect, but he is the best of the lot that is there.

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samurai — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:17:33 GMT

I LOVE THESE QUOTES. THANKS SO MUCH. :)

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K.T. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:15:28 GMT

I figure there are two kinds of citizens. The ones that think that the Government owes them everything and are willing to pay for it, and the kind that realize this and take advantage of it by becoming politicians.

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Awen — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:19:38 GMT

I recently came across an interesting on-line movie that showed corporate/government control at www.zeitgeistmovie.com. I don't like any kind of violence, but got through the first 8 minutes or so because I figured in an almost 2 hour movie, there must be some good info - and there is. I'm Canadian, and the movie is USA-ian focussed, but I think everyone in the world ought to view it.

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FlaGranny — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:01:24 GMT

"and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abe Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Libertarians always forget that the government should BE the people and DO the peoples' business. What is the people's business? Roads, research, freedom from surveillance, freedom of religion, safe food and medications, safe cities, paramedics, firefighters, policemen. How do you propose that these things be financed. Do you want to have to personally pay the cop before he saves your life from an intruder or the fireman before he puts out your house fire - like you have to do with doctors? Now, if you're talking about the present government, it seems their only interest is corporate profits and war. Yes, they're bad. The present government is totally alien to Lincoln's concept of "of, by, and for" the people. It's time for people to start paying attention and take back their government and stop voting for corporate lackeys.

Health care? I work in the health care field. I personally know of several cases of hard working people unable to afford health insurance. One lady died from *** cancer because she didn't have insurance. Just try when you're 55 or 60 years old, and get laid off, to get health insurance. IF you can get it (you MUST have no preexisting conditions), it's going to cost you more than a thousand dollars a month, and for a couple, a few thousand a month. I'm sure that anyone at all can afford that, right? I'm sure it's their own fault (as libertarians like to say) because I'm sure that 20 or 30 years ago they should have picked a company to work for that would never go under or move all their jobs to India or Mexico, right? Sure, we have the best health care in the world for those who can get it.

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David _Hahn — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:02:08 GMT

Behind those quotes, those simple-minded one liners from "the gipper" and others, lies the notion that government can not do anything right. Let's see. Churchill - It was the English and American people, organized through government that defated Nazism in WWII. Government created the Internet, by which you are receiving Dr. Mercola. Government helped fund the science the makes prosthetic devices for people who have lost limbs. And, the list goes on and on. . . My point is that government is neither good nor bad, inherently, it is. If you think too much government is bad; go somewhere where there is little government; parts of South America for example; which are run by gangs and drug lords.

Pericles is the best quote

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TomRobinson — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:17:10 GMT

Dr. Mercola, I'm appalled by your cynicism for government that the quotes you've chosen so clearly demonstrate. If I felt that Ron Paul was as cynical as you are, there's no way that I would ever vote for him. Our government if FAR from perfect, but does that mean the best thing to do is to throw the baby out with the bath water?

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buddha — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:08:45 GMT

“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

—Benjamin Franklin

“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”

—Alexis de Tocqueville

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“Politicians never accuse you of “greed” for wanting to take other people’s money—only for wanting to keep your own money.”

—Joseph Sobran

“Once the government becomes the supplier of people’s needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”

—Lawrence Auster

“The idea, in A.D. 2006, of aiming at reform by movement toward socialism is at best quaint.”

“Achieving socialism takes time, and a great deal of aid from non-socialists.”

—William F. Buckley, Jr.

“People serious about reducing the role of money in politics should be serious about reducing the role of politics in distributing money.

—George Will”

“The FairTax is a neo-Marxist dream: checks for all in the name of balance.”

-BuddhaB

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Dquixote1217 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:42:47 GMT

Good stuff! I think the same holds true for yesterday's medical quotes:

"Having good health is very different than only being not sick."

- Seneca the Younger, 50AD

"Nature is the physician of man.”

- Hippocrates

“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.”

- James Bryce

“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“God heals and the doctor takes the fee.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.”

- Francis Quarles

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”

- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire]

“Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.”

- Moliere (1622-1672)

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

- Thomas Edison

“[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

- Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881

“Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food."

- Hippocrates, 420BC

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

- William Osler

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

- Voltaire 1778

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annapavlova42 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:54:24 GMT

This is for our terrific Government and all associated in trying to destroy us------

Let the outside door hit you, where the good lord split you.

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Laserman — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:43:53 GMT

18) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

- Ernest Benn

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Bridestein — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:07:04 GMT

I'd laugh if I weren't already crying.

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Arizona — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:17:41 GMT

A great piece!!!