Quotes & Scriptures

 

A few favorite scriptures and quotes , that remind me of why I am doing this:

 

“Why don’t you follow your eyes and ears rather than dubious interpretations of prophecy? The globalists use prophecy to distract dumb people that think that “prophecy fortune telling” is actually doing something to fight this evil.”
~MFP

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
~ William Penn

“Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only ‘order’ that governments have ever maintained.”
~ Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”
~ Edward Abbey

 

As Louis-Ferdinand Celine so correctly stated:
“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.”

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
~ St. Augustine of Hippo

“……The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson…”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt (letter to Colonel House 1933)

“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy”
~Henry Kissinger

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
~Edmund Burke

“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”
~ Lysander Spooner

“Case law is not anything other than Lucifer’s imposition of evolution on God’s Natural Laws, that we live under via the Constitution. “
~MFP

“It is through government, and law that Christians either love one another, or  hate one another.
Sadly it’s apparent that the latter is what Christians have chosen.”
~MFP

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“If you think you’re on the right side I can assure you are on the wrong side no matter which side you are on. Each of us individually must begin to study, research and learn the truth.”

~William Milton Cooper

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“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
~ Saint Augustine

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“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.”
~Alexis de Tocqueville

The corollary of this is:  Every Law ends, in a silent: “Or we will kill you”

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“What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. …Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
~Elbridge Gerry, Fifth Vice President of the United States

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“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”

~Thomas Jefferson

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Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.
The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God that it will ever remain, in the hands of the people”
~ Tench Coxe

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“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
~ Patrick Henry

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
~ Patrick Henry

“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
~ Patrick Henry

 

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.“
~ Patrick Henry

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
~Patrick Henry

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
~Patrick Henry

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it comes to dominate our lives and interests.”
~Patrick Henry

“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
~ Patrick Henry

“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.”
~ Patrick Henry

“It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.”
~ Patrick Henry

“If we wish to be free we must fight, I repeat, we must fight.”
~ Patrick Henry

“A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force but drive it back, because what they’re fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
~ Patrick Henry[

 

“The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

 

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

~William Penn

 

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~Aristotle

 

“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin”
~Hebrews 12:4

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and” will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
~2 Chronicles 7:14

“For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow” ~Ecclesiastes 1:18

1To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

2A time [a]to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
3A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
4A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
7A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
8A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.

~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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~Ezekiel 33:1-6

1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

~Ezekiel 33:1-6

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge…”
~Hosea 4:6

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
~Psalm 11:3

 

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
~1 Corinthians 3:16-17

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”
~2 Corinthians 3:17

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
~1 Timothy 5:8

“For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”
~Timothy 4:3-4

“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”
~2 Peter 1:20

Hating the messenger without cause is very prevalent in “Modern Christianity”:

 

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
~John 14:6

“But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’”
~John 15:25

Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
~John 7:24 

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
~John 8:32

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
~John 9:2

Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
~John 9:3

 

 

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
~1 John 3:18

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
~1 John 4:4

“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
~1 John 5:19

“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.”
~ 1 John 2:18

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
~2 John 10-11  (Israel  I curse thee that bless you ** )

 

“Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.”
~Psalm 97:10

“God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”
~Psalm 7:11

“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?”
~ Psalm 94:16

“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation”
~ Psalm 91:5-9

“Look at your troops– they are all weaklings. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed the bars of your gates.”
~Nahum 3:13

“Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.”
~James 2:17

“…know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God”
~James 4:4

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
~James 1:5

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
~James 4:7

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”
~Ezekiel 22:30

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~ John 15:13

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a hearers of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass”
~ James 1  22-23

“So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.”
~Mark 10:18

“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (cowards & liars shall not enter the kingdom of heaven)
~Revelation 21:8

“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
~Revelation 3:15-16

“Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
~Revelation 7:3   more at: 1. 2

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
~Revelation 18:4

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”
~2 Thessalonians 2:10

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ”
~2 Thessalonians 2:11

“That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
~2 Thessalonians 2:12  (like fractional  reserve banking? Unjust measures)

“Everything that is hidden will be found out, and every secret will be known.
Whatever I say to you in the dark, YOU must tell in the light….”
~Luke, 12:2-3

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you”
~Luke 10:19

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
~James 4:7

“……For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.”
~Luke 12:48

“And He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his [l]cloak and buy one.”
~Luke 22:36

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
~Matthew 5:10

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
~Matthew 6:24

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
~Matthew 7:23    (modern “law enforcement”?)

“But don’t be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all.”
~Matthew 10:26

 

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
 ~Matthew 10:28

“and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household”
~Matthew 10:36

 

14“In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,
‘YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND;
YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;
15FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL,
WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR,
AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES,
OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES,
HEAR WITH THEIR EARS,
AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN,
AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.’

16“But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. 17“For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
~Matthew 13:14-17

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
~Matthew 18:6

 

15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

~Matthew 18:15-17

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
~Matthew 24:24

“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
~Matthew 25:40

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
~II Timothy 1:7 KJV)

 

“Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear”
~Jeremiah 5:21

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“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
~Isaiah 5:20

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
~Isaiah 1:18

“I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfill my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.”
~Isaiah 13:3 (Brenton Septuagint Translation)

“So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.”
~Isaiah 59:19

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“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”
~Ephesians 5:11

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
~Ephesians 6:12

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”  ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Christian Pastor executed by the Nazi’s

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice“
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force.
Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
But against stupidity we are defenseless.”
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

“Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:”
~Psalm 144

“Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.”
~Proverbs 5:15

“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”
~Proverbs 8:13

“Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the LORD.”
~Proverbs 20:10
(God hates our fiat money system. Yet  I have never met a “modern Christian” that does. They weekly throw this abomination into the collection plate without any thought )

“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion”
~Proverbs 28:1

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
~Proverbs 9:10

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  and A MAN’S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.”
~Matthew 10:34-36

 

“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”
~Matthew 24:9-11

“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand,
To execute vengeance on the nations,
And punishments on the peoples;
To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with fetters of iron;”

~Psalm 149:6-8

“When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.”
~Deuteronomy 20

“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you”
~ Luke 10:19

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” ~Ephesians 6:10-18

“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
~Galatians 4:16

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty where with Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
~Galatians 5:1

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
~Joshua 24:15

 

“And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, who is great and fearsome, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.”
~Nehemiah 4:14

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BOOK P 42 Judaism’s Strange gods:
“It is Christians that are the true Jews”

11“I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
12but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
~Matthew 8:11-12

28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.
~Romans 2:28-29

15For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
16And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
~Galatians 6:15-16

 

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ARE YOU PREPARED TO STAND ON THE WALL WITH YOUR SWORD IN HAND TO DEFEND YOUR BRETHREN -DO YOU HEAR THE TRUMPET CALLING ALL BELIEVERS TO THE BATTLE?

~Nehemiah 4:16-22King James Version (KJV)

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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
~Soren Kierkegaard

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.’
~Thomas Paine

“These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country…”. 
~Thomas Paine

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
~Thomas Paine

“The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
~Thomas Paine

“All of Scripture is an admonition to fight evil, in ourselves and in the world ― and the consequences of not doing so. If the Christian, particularly, can be convinced that there is nothing he can do in his lifetime, he will do nothing or next to nothing ― and his conscience will not bother him”

~Arthur R. Thompson pg 273 To The Victor Go The Myths & Monuments: The History of the First 100 Years of the War Against God and the Constitution, 1776 – 1876, and Its Modern Impact

“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
~Paraphrase of  Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on education

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless. if it is, then we have no constitution.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope for victory, because it is better to parish than to live as slaves.”
~ Winston Churchill

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”
~Winston Churchill

 

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom–go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
~ Samuel Adams

“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men”
~ Samuel Adams

“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
~Samuel Adams

 

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
~ Saint Augustine of Hippo

 

 Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbert’s book Dune
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

 

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“Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!” ~ William Wallace

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“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” ~Thomas Jefferson

 

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
~Benjamin Franklin

Scripture says that a house divided must fall. Meaning to me that we must work together for a common goal, and that in this case is liberty, and not fall for the divide and conquer tactics of the Deep state.

The founders had a flag: “join or die” a very similar thing.
They were referring to the 13 colonies joining.
They also said that “we hang together or we hang separately”
which is almost synonymous with the first 2.

Pastor Martin Niemoller’s poem also express’s similar thought:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
~Martin Niemoller

As does Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s warning:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago

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What is imprecatory prayer?

To imprecate means “to invoke evil upon or curse” one’s enemies. King David, the psalmist most associated with imprecatory verses such as Psalm 55:15, 69:28, and 109:8, often used phrases like, “may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them” (Psalm 35:6) and “O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!” (Psalm 58:6).

Psalms 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 109, and 139 were written by David to ask God to bring judgment upon his enemies. (The other two imprecatory psalms, 79 and 137, were written by Asaph and an unknown psalmist.) These prayers were written not so much to exact revenge upon one’s enemies, but rather to emphasize God’s abhorrence of evil, His sovereignty over all mankind, and His divine protection of His chosen people. Many of these prayers were prophetic and could be seen taking place later in the New Testament in actual historical events.

When David prayed for God to shatter the teeth of his enemies, likening them to young lions pursuing him to his death, he was making the point that God is holy, righteous, and just, and He will ultimately judge the wicked for the evil they do. Jesus quoted some of the imprecatory psalms during His earthly ministry. In John 15:25, Jesus quotes Psalm 35:19 and 69:4. Paul also quoted an imprecatory prayer in Romans 11:9–10, which is a quote of Psalm 69:22–23. Since Jesus and Paul quoted verses from these imprecatory psalms, it proves those psalms were inspired by God and counters any allegation that they were sinful or selfish prayers of revenge.

Using imprecatory prayers from the Psalms today should only be done against our spiritual enemies (Ephesians 6:12). Praying imprecations on human foes is unjustifiable, as it would require taking these prayers out of context. In the New Testament, Jesus exhorts us to pray for our enemies (Matthew 5:44–48; Luke 6:27–38), but praying for their death or for bad things to happen to them isn’t what He meant. Instead, we are to pray for their salvation first and foremost, and then for God’s will to be done. There’s no greater blessing than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and that’s what Jesus means by praying for and blessing those who curse us.

Praying in that manner allows God to work in our own lives to soften our hearts toward our enemies so that we’ll have compassion on them for their eternal destiny, and to remove bitterness and anger from our hearts. Praying for God’s will to be done means we agree with God and are submitting ourselves to His divine sovereignty, despite not always understanding perfectly what He’s doing in a particular situation. And it means we have given up the idea that we know best and instead are now relying on and trusting in God to work His will. If a personal wrong has truly been done to us, we seek God in prayer about it, and then leave room for God’s judgment and trust Him to do what is best. That is the way to be at peace with God and all men (Romans 12:17-21).

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6  Let their way be dark and  slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
~Psalm 35:6

15 Let death steal over them;
let them go down to Sheol alive;
for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.
~Psalm 55:15

6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
~Psalm 58:6

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
~Psalm 69:28

8 May his days be few;
may another take his office!
~Psalm 109:8

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
~Soren Kierkegaard

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“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate…Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”
~ H. L. Mencken

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women

““Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.””
~George Washington

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others…”
~Dr. Benjamin Rush

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
~JFK

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
~Henry David Thoreau

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