JR Notes: The following quotes have been edited to correct some obvious errors, to remove duplicates, and to reformat the paragraphs. Quotes 001, 002, and 006, although passed along here, should be regarded as apocryphal. In particular, quotes 001 and 002 are not supported by publically available tapes, with a chain of custody leading back to the original reporter, and a computer-voice analysis to confirm the identity of the speaker. Pending such confirmation, they should be regarded with some skepticism. They are quoted here because they reflect the larger impacts of what the alleged speakers are doing, whether they are aware of it or not, or whether, if they are, they would make such explicit statements in a meeting of persons whose loyalty cannot be assured. Therefore, I offer one more quote whose origin I am certain of, because I said it: "Know everything, believe nothing, and be prepared for anything." ======================================================================== PIML 96052201 / Forwarded to Patriot Information List: Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:28:48 -0700 From: steve@linex2.linex.com Subject: (Fwd) CAJI! Fwd: No conspiracy anymore. They admit it. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: INDIGOCOP@aol.com Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 08:29:07 -0400 Subject: CAJI! Fwd: No conspiracy anymore. They admit it. --------------------- Forwarded message: From: MAS8892@aol.com Date: 96-05-20 21:22:57 EDT Geoff Metcalf's Significant Quote Series Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 001 "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." --Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 002 "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." He went on to explain: "It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." --David Rockefeller speaking at the June 1991 Bilderberger meeting in Baden Baden, Germany (a meeting also attended by then Governor Bill Clinton and Dan Quayle). Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 003 "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." --Theodore Roosevelt Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 004 "If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own - that thing is the preservation of their own liberties and institutions." --Abraham Lincoln Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 005 "..the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war [for Independence] we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1791 Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 006 "1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead in the future!" --Adolf Hitler Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 007 "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of many by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." --Abraham Lincoln Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 008 Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. --Alexis de Tocqueville Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 009 "Government is not reason: It is not eloquence, it is Force; like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --George Washington Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 010 "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!" --Edmund Burke Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 011 "Rights come from GOD not the state. You have rights antecedent to any earthly governments, rights that can not be repealed or restrained by human laws. Rights derived from the great legislator: God." --John Adams Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 012 Inscribed on our Hallowed LIBERTY BELL are these words: "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. We Paid the Price ONCE!" Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 013 PATRIOTS PRAYER (or Motto of BATF) Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off. Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 014 "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." --George Bush addressing the world leaders at the UN. Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 015 Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of its husk, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own. --John Ruskin Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 016 [Omitted - duplicate of 015] Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 017 "The liberty which a citizen employs is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him; and that, whether this machinery is or is not one he shared in making, its actions are not of the kind proper to Liberalism if they increase such restraints beyond those which are needful for preventing him from directly or indirectly aggressing on his fellows---needful, that is, for maintaining the liberties of his fellows against his invasions of them; restraints which are, therefore, to be distinguished as negatively coercive, nor positively coercive...." --Herbert Spencer Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 018 "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people'. To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson - Opinion on the Constitutionality of a national bank February 15, 1791 Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 019 "He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still." --Charles Caleb Colon Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 020 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt to the world to him - therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." --Samuel Butler Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 021 [Omitted - duplicate of 017] Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 022 "The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." --Ambrose Bierce Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 023 "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." --Don Marquis Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 024 "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe." --Clarence Darrow Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 025 "No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it." --Thomas Jefferson Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 026 "Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain." --Aubrey T. DeVera Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 027 "A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without any visible means of support." --Ambrose Bierce Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 028 "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of." --Confucius Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 029 "Avoid popularity if you would have peace." --Abraham Lincoln Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 030 "Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world." --Thomas Carlyle Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 031 "Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." --Charles DeGaulle Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 032 "Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." --Ambrose Bierce Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 033 "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river." --Nikita Khrushchev Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 034 "A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better." --Anonymous Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 035 [blank] Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 036 "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." --General William Curtis Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 037 "To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle." --Confucius Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 038 "He serves his party best who serves the country best." --Rutherford B. Hayes Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 039 "Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought." --Dwight W. Morrow Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 040 "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." --James Russell Lowell Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 041 "Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal." --Alexander Hamilton Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 042 "There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." --James Thurber Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 043 "Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid." --Mark Twain Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series : 044 "We ain't what we ought to be. We ain't what we could be. We ain't what we gonna be, but thank God we ain't what we were." --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 045 "If we run into such [government] debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-suffers." --Thomas Jefferson Geoff Metcalf Significant Quotes: 046 "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debase the currency." --Nikolai Lenin Geoff Metcalf Significant Quotes Series: 047 "There is no subtler, or surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debase the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which only one man in a million is able to diagnose." --John Maynard Keynes Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 048 "In transactions of trade it is not to be supposed that, as in gaming, what one party gains the other must necessarily lose. The gain to each may be equal. If A has more corn than he can consume, but wants cattle; and B has more cattle, but wants corn; exchange is gain to each; thereby the common stock of comforts in life is increased." --Benjamin Franklin Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 049 "The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presusmption enough to fancy himself fit to excercise it." -- Adam Smith Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 050 "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." --Thomas Jefferson Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 051 "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." --Alexis de Tocqueville Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 052 "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" --Thomas Jefferson Geoff Metcalf Significanta Quote Series: 053 "It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." --Thomas Jefferson Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 054 "There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do." --Milton Friedman. Nobel laureate Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 055 "Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something they can be dangerous." --Will Rogers Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 056 "Ever time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves." --Benjamin Constant, Brazilian statesman 1833-1891 Geoff Metcalf Significant Quote Series: 057 "Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." --Thomas Edison (c) 1996 by KSFO ************************************************ To subscribe or unsubscribe send mail to: caji-owner@pobox.com with: (un)subscribe caji youremail@yourprovider.com in the body of the message. -> SNETNEWS Mailing List & Fidonet Echo -> Post to: listserv@xbn.shore.net -> subscribe snetnews * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.