Words of inspiration

[holy vehm]

I would like to share some words of inspiration, to remind us our work is unfinished and to ask why, why have words long since said gone unheard.

"It is necessary to repeat the truth over and over again, because the falsehoods around us are also being constantly repeated, not by individuals but by the masses, in newspapers and encyclopedias, in the schools and at the universities. Everywhere, falsehood is on top, comfortable and secure in the knowledge that the majority is on its side." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to Johann Peter Eckermann, December 16, 1828

"A government of laws, and not of men".
- John Adams

~ You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~
huey newton

~ Revolutions are not made; they come. ~
wendell phillips

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
ghandi

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
albert camus

[treeman]

Nam nemo haeres viventis - For no one is an heir of a living person.

Naturae vis maxima est - The force of nature is the greatest.

Necessitas inducit privilegium quoad jura privata - With respect to private rights necessity induces privilege.

Necessitas non habet legem - Necessity has no law.

Necessitas publica est major quam privata - Public necessity is greater than private necessity.

Negligentia semper habet infortuniam comitem - Negligence always has misfortune for a companion.

Nemo admittendus est inhabilitare se ipsum - No one is allowed to incapacitate himself.

Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto - No one can be twice punished for the same offence.

Nemo cogitur suam rem vendere, etiam justo pretio - No one is bound to sell his own property, even for a just price.

Nemo contra factum suum venire potest - No man can contradict his own deed.

Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa - No one can be judge in his own case.

Nemo plus juris transferre ad alium potest quam ipse habet - No one can transfer to another a larger right than he himself has.

Nemo potest contra recordum verificare per patriam - No one can verify by the country, that is, through a jury, against the record.

Nemo potest esse tenens et dominus - No one can at the same time be a tenant and a landlord (of the same tenement).

Nemo potest facere per alium, quod per se non potest - No one can do through another what he cannot do himself.

Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam - No one can change his purpose to the injury of another.

Nemo praesumitur esse immemor suae aeternae salutis et maxime in articulo mortis - No one is presumed to be forgetful of his eternal welfare, and particularly in the hour of death.

Nemo prohibetur pluribus defensionibus uti - No one is forbidden to make use of several defences.

Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto - No one is punished for the crime of another.

Nemo se accusare debet, nisi coram Deo - No one should accuse himself except in the presence of God.

Nemo tenetur accusare se ipsum nisi coram Deo - No one is bound to accuse himself except in the presence of God.

Nemo tenetur armare adversarium contra se - No one is bound to arm his adversary against himself.

Nexus - Connection

Nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum - Nothing inconvenient is lawful.

Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore constat - An error of name makes not difference when it appears from the body of the instrument.

Nisi - Unless

Non compus mentis - Not of sound mind and understanding

Non constat - It is not certain

Non decipitur qui scit se decipi - He is not deceived who knows that he is deceived.

Non definitur in jure quid sit conatus - What an attempt is, is not defined in law.

Non est arctius vinculum inter homines quam jusjurandum - There is no stronger link among men than an oath.

Non est factum - It is not his deed

Non est informatus - He is not informed.

Non facias malum ut inde veniat bonum - You shall not do evil that good may come of it.

Non jus, sed seisina, facit stipitem - Not right, but seisin makes a stock (from which the inheritance must descend).

Non refert quid notum sit judici si notum non sit in forma judicii - It matters not what is known to the judge if it is not known judicially.

Non sequitur - An inconsistent statement, it does not follow

Nullus commodum capere potest ex sua injuria propria - No one can derive an advantage from his own wrong.

Nullus recedat e curia cancellaria sine remedio - No one should depart from a Court of Chancery without a remedy.

[pedawson]

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H Douglas

The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot
William Ralph Inge

Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon Johnson

And the ass wipe of today concludes to say -
Defender and promoter of freedom and democracy [on George W Bush]
Silvio Berlusconi
This last one demonstrates that shit is not always 'brown' and smells

Namaste, Phil;

[treeman]

A working class hero is something to be. J Lennon

If you want to be a hero, then dont follow me. Stan of the freedom family, as commonly know.

[Prajna]

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."....Albert Einstein

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." - John Stuart Mill

"Ultimately, one can define the modern state sociologically only in terms of the specific means peculiar to it, as to every political association, namely, the use of physical force. " - Max Webber (Politics as a Vocation)

Proverbs 29:12 "If a ruler pays attention to liars, all his advisers will be wicked."

"Fraud destroys the validity of everything into which it enters. It affects fatally even the most solemn judgments and decrees." - IRA NUDD VS. GEORGE BURROWS, 91 U.S. 426, at 440 (1875).

maxim - "Accipere quid ut justitium facias non est tam accipere quam extorquere." - To accept anything as a reward for doing justice is rather extorting than accepting.

maxim - "Adjuvari quippe nos, non decipi, beneficio oportet." - Surely we ought to be helped by a benefit, not be entrapped by it.

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason" Sir Edward Coke 1552-1634.

"Those who know the least obey the best" - George Farquhar

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." - Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~ A.A. Hodge

"We hang the petty theives and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop

"Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right." - WILLIAM HENRY MAULE (Judge, Common Pleas)

“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?” - Jalal al-Din Rumi

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty." - Henry David Thoreau

"to stand up for truth is nothing, for the truth you must sit in jail" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn Vos Savant

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Gandhi

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - Henry David Thoreau

"Throughout history there have been more crimes committed through blind obedience than through disobedience"

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Because he refused to compete in games for domination he was indomitable." - from The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” - Abraham Lincoln

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -always." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you with only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory at all, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill

"It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say, on beholding such a situation, that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." - Etienne de la Boetie, 1552-53

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality." — Michael Ellner

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." - Voltaire

"The history of ethics has been a history of exploitation. From time immemorial, individuals were set apart into two groups: those that must obey the rules, and those that need not. The people must observe ethics and morals, while rulers not." - Helio Beltrão

'Seeing what's at the end of one's nose requires constant effort'. - George Orwell

The National Security State uses fascism to protect capitalism whilst claiming they're protecting democracy from communism. - Michael J. Parenti

"COMMON LAW. That which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practice of the people." - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition.

“I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education” - Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278.

"Belief is the systematic taking of unanalyzed words much too seriously." - Aldous Huxley, Island
pp 85

"they who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness." - John Milton

"Journalism's job is not impartial 'balanced' reporting. Journalism's job is to tell the people what is really going on.", George Seldes (1890 - 1995)

“No action which is not voluntary can be called moral....Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral....Freedom of the individual is at the root of all progress.” - Gandhi

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness...There is only one sovereign remedy, namely, non-violent non-cooperation." - Gandhi

[holy vehm]

I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.

1884, President Andrew Jackson about the evils of central banking

[holy vehm]

How many freeman can you get in a cell, one, because they know their rights. How many freeman can you get in a court, many, because they demand their rights.

treeman 2011

[holy vehm]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

[pedawson]

Let us answer with a story: A monk went to his master and said,
"Master, it feels as if there are two dogs fighting in my heart.
One is for all that is good in me.
The other is for all that is evil.
Master, tell me which dog will win?"

The Master answered, "The dog that you feed."

Namaste, phil;

[holy vehm]

Only when the last tree has been cut down:
Only when the last river has been poisoned:
Only when the last fish has been caught:
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
- Cree Indian Prophecy