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Longtime political activist, writer, blogger, webmaster. Behind the scenes newshound and volunteer at Democrats.com since the 2000 Coup D'tat. Webmaster at TNJP.org. Previously publishing and editing the now defunct CrippledChimp.com.
SHARE I have stood before the alter of God and sworn eternal hostility toward all forms of tyranny over the minds of men
By Thomas Jefferson[fullquote]
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SHARE It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war.
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Speech of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower (1954) by Chesly Manly, p. 3, and Total Insecurity : The Myth Of American Omnipotence (2004) by Carol Brightman, p. 182
By Douglas MacArthur[fullquote]