From William Brian's link~ Takk ! My Son~

Thoughts To Ponder

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Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have
the less self-reliant people will be.
Let go of the law,
and people become honest.
Let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
Let go of religion,
and people become serene.
Let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass.
- Tao Te Ching

The way of noninterference - those who would take hold of the world and act on it, never, I notice, succeed.
- Lao Tzu

All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
- John Locke

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson

If Tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- James Madison

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!
- Samuel Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
- John Quincy Adams

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
- Henry David Thoreau

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
- Benjamin Harrison

War is the health of the state.
- Randolph Bourne

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
- General Smedley Butler

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- H.L. Mencken

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.
- Albert Jay Nock

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
- General Douglas MacArthur

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

The military doesn't start wars. The politicians start wars.
- General William Westmoreland

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey