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[Elihu]

John F. McManus, quotes about Agriculture:
Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

[Nordic]

It was still dark outside and my morning boner, balanced atop a bladder near to bursting, was pressed into the small of my girlfriend’s back, as if I’d been attempting to rob her in my sleep.

Mr. Fish

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/it ... _20120111/

[Elihu]

J. Edgar Hoover, quotes about Sexuality:
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

[Nordic]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

[Elihu]

A Bill Concerning Slaves quotes:
No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another.

Edward Abbey quotes:
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey quotes:
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy... If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government—and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

[Gouda]

"[Stuart Levey's] experience dealing with international financial and legal issues is highly relevant to a global bank such as HSBC."

~ Stuart Gulliver, HSBC chief executive

Context:

-- HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks

Earlier this month, HSBC named former top [Bush and Obama] U.S. Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as chief legal officer in a sign of how the bank is hiring outside experts in money laundering. Levey, who specialized in combating terrorism financing and left the Treasury Department last year, is based in London

[Bruce Dazzling]

"Lemme see. In a corporatist State -- where vastly powerful and wealthy companies and institutions form alliances with government precisely for the purpose of shutting out competitors and increasing their own power and wealth -- one group of vastly powerful and wealthy companies uses the State to eliminate a competitor and increase their own power and wealth.

Gee, think of that. How fantastically unexpected."

~Arthur Silber

[Elihu]

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. quotes:
The combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

[Gouda]

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

[Saurian Tail]

“Permaculture is revolution disguised as organic gardening.”

- Graham Burnett ‘Permaculture – A Beginners Guide’

[Elihu]

Gallagher quotes:
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.

[IanEye]

"I just find that the best wood to use for marionettes is old totem pole wood, because the spirits live inside the wood." - Liza Minnelli

[harry ashburn]

"2 wrongs don't make a right; but 3 lefts do!" -jim hightower's mother

"Tom Waits for no man." -harry ashburn

Harry Ashburn's official motto for the City of Istanbul: "Istanbul.... Constantly Noble."

[Simulist]

[Elihu]

Otto von Bismarck quotes:
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilisation.