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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." : John Kenneth Galbraith

ICH today

Posted at 8:05 AM, 21/5/2007

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson
 
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same: Marie Beyle
 
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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing: John Adams
 
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To change masters is not to be free: Jose Marti y Perez
 
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?: Herbert Spencer.
 
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction: Blaise Pascal
 

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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 + +
http://tinyurl.com/usq4x
 
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3,422
http://icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$427,338,215,837


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