One Crazy Summer Violence is

One Crazy Summer

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. About the quote : The character Salvor Hardin speaks these words in Asimovs Foundation. We believed ourselves watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others-even when we cause it. About the quote : The Boston Globe, 9/21/04 We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for. About the quote : The Boston Globe, 9/21/04 The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. All men having power ought to be mistrusted. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. About the quote : This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman he represented Virginia from 1789-1 only be declared by the authority of the of the government which is to reap its fruits. The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. About the quote : from Political Observations, April 20, 1 The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. About the quote : from Political Observations, 1 No nation could preserve One Crazy Summer freedom in the midst of continual warfare. About the quote : from Political Observations, 1795 The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. About the quote : as written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. You can read more about this in Thomas E. Woods, Jrs article Presidential War Powers on A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. About the quote : This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman he represented Virginia from 1789-1 The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. About the quote : American Journalist 1909-1995, best known for his work with the NY Times. Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. About the quote : in his article From Fear to Eternity in Vanity Fair, March 2005 The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. About the quote : in his article From Fear to Eternity, Vanity Fair, March 2005 Its one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. About the quote : in his article From Fear to Eternity in Vanity Fair, March 2005 Every man thinks god is on his side. We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. After every victory you have more enemies. Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they. Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. Total war is no One Crazy Summer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is it may well involve the whole world. It is always more valuable to report the truth.