Warning signs

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."

"If we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government ... to do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty."

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."

"National borders will no longer be a deterrent to justified humanitarian intervention. National sovereignty will no longer be taken into account."

"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on."

"Many people suffer not because their governments are too strong, but because their governments are too weak."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamourous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"We want to become a multiracial, multiethnic society ... without a dominant European culture."

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

"Stroke of the pen, law of the land.......kinda cool."

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.
We are the president."

"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."

"We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.  The Mennonites survive without cars and so can the rest of us."

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."

"Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust. Since he has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose in finishing out his term, the only possible solution is for the president to save some dignity and resign."

"Accuse others of what you do."

"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on.  We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest.  Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law.  The problem is solved.'  And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.  So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strength that law, and maybe again and again.  Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice.  Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time.  My estimate is from seven to ten years.  The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country.  The second problem is to get them all registered.  And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."

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