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• " I certainly understand the need to balance the federal budget, but  people need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy." Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, on a bipartisan lobbying effort by governors to stave off federal cuts in Medicaid.

• "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the STATE has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." Arthur Miller, Playwright

• "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke

• "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience." Albert Camus
• "The Roots of Violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles."  Mahatma Gandhi
• "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.' "  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." Harry S. Truman
• "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."  Albert Einstein
• These quotes were culled by the Information Clearing House, and made available on their daily newsletter of Nov. 25, 2004, Nov. 21, 2004, and Dec. 7, 2004.   http://207.44.245.159
• "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."  Benito Mussolini
• "We're not a democracy.  It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that.  In reality we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy."  Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
• "The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these." Lord Hoffman, Britain's Highest Court, who ruled against indefinite detention of terror suspects.

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