Southern Messenger – Robert E Lee, John Adams, & Samuel Adams Quotes

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people... Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice."
-- John Adams

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." Samuel Adams

"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, it we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
-- Samuel Adams, article published in 1771

Apply Samuel's quote to the loss of our 10th Amendment to Lincoln, and to the present

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather
an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in
people's minds.." --Samuel Adams

'African Chief We want three things: powder, ball and brandy; and we have three things to
sell: men, women and children." (51) African chief….p 74

Confederate artillery General Edward Porter Alexander's personal
recollections as appearing in "Fighting for the Confederacy",
reporting on Pres. Davis' removal of Gen. Johnston from the
defense of Atlanta and replacing him with H. P. Hood:

"......if a last nail in the Confederate coffin, it was now
supplied. The credit of its due, I have always understood to our
Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown & our senator, the eloquent
Benjamin H. Hill. By political arts & pressure, in which they were
both adept, they forced Pres. Davis to relieve Gen. Jos. E.
Johnston from the command of the army in front of Sherman of
Atlanta."
and finally .....
"But it ought to teach the South FOR ALL TIME [emphasis added] to
distrust eloquence & beware politicians." pgs. 468-469

Robert Asbury
in writing in the book "War in the Shadows", said ". . .the arrogance of
power compounded by the arrogance of ignorance will lead to defeat. . ."

James C. Bates "I must not forget our old flag — though torn & tattered & faded. In the
three days of fighting, although about 18 inches was torn off the end & lost
— there is fifteen bullet holes through the flag & three through the staff —
& besides this a large rent made by a piece of a bomb. Three color bearers
were shot down & the fourth now carries it. If I should live through the war
I would want no brighter monument than this faded flag to decorate my parlor
walls — (Provided I ever have a parlor)." James C. Bates CSA

Sen. Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana said of the compromises, "You do not propose to enter into our States, you say, and what do we complain of? You do not pretend to enter into our States to kill or destroy our institutions by force. Oh, no... You propose simply to close us in an embrace that will suffocate us... The day for adjustment has passed... We desire, we beseech you, let this parting be in peace... you can never subjugate us; you can never convert the free sons of the soil into vassals, paying tribute to your power; and you never, never can degrade them to the level of an inferior and servile race. Never! Never-"

"Under Federal Legislation, the exports of the South have been the basis of the Federal Revenue. Virginia, the two Carolina's, and Georgia, may be said to defray three fourths of the annual expense of supporting the Federal Government; and of this great sum, annually furnished by them, nothing or next to nothing is returned to them, in the shape of Government expenditures. that expenditure flows in an opposite direction -- it flows north, in one uniform, uninterrupted and perennial stream. This is the reason why wealth disappears from the south and rises up in the north. Federal Legislation does this." - Senator Thomas Hart Benton

Groups like the NAACP and the SCLC absolutely NEED issues like the
Confederate flag to raise hell about ... it sustains them. It gives them the
push they need for fund raising. If they didn't have these issues, they would
invent them. This, my friends, is the true never-ending story.

"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours."

"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. "The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."--Sarah Brady

"The rank and file were chiefly farmers and small merchants,
comparatively very few were owners of slaves; but they were all
descended from ancestors whose fortunes and blood had been freely
spent in the war of the revolution; they volunteered in obedience to
the call of their state to resist invasion; they came with a firm
determination to do their full duty." -Capt. Wm. H. S. Burgwyn, 35th
Regiment, North Carolina Troops

"The government is a juggling confederacy of a few to cheat . . . and enslave the people." Edmund Burke

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." -George Bush

"The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism. ...
the flag does not offend me personally. I grew up in the South - in
Texas, That flag doesn't represent anything other than
regional pride. It's a time of our history that we just can't erase."

The Constitution and Bill of Right, as increasing numbers of conservatives are beginning to see, are viewed as obstacles to be overcome by the Socialist programs our radical egalitarians wish to continue and expand. Those that truly revere the Constitution and Republic that was originally established on this continent certainly cannot continue to coexist indefinitely with those that, like their abolitionist progenitors, burned the Constitution and did everything in their power to subvert it.

In Channing's book "Short History of the United States" Channing says "The
Union Army showed the greatest sympathy with McClellan for the bold protest
against emancipation. Five states, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York went against Lincoln on this account."

Brock Chisholm "To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of
men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national
identification."
Brock Chisholm, when director of UN World Health Organization

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

Winston Churchill

Cicero said: "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

"As to my own position, I hope to see the Union preserved by granting the
South the full measure of her constitutional rights. If this can not be
done, I hope to see all the Southern States united in a new confederation
and that we can effect a peaceable separation. If both of these are denied
us, I am with Arkansas in weal or woe. I have been elected and hold a
commission of captain of the Volunteer Rifle Company of this place and I
can say for my company that if the Stars and Stripes become the standard of
a tyrannical majority, the ensign of a violated league, it will no longer
command our love or respect but will command our best efforts to drive them
from our state.
I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or in defeat...... I
believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who
have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the
fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that
all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They
are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and
inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor our women.
We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be
left alone." Major General Patrick Cleburne

"If this cause, that is dear to my heart, is doomed to fail, I pray heaven
may let me fall with it, while my face is toward the enemy and my arm
battling for that which I know is right."-Cleburne before his fatal wound at
the battle of Franklin, Tenn.

"In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."
-- Mark Twain

"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."--President William Jefferson Clinton, March 1, 1993 during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ source: Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."--President William Jefferson Clinton 5/29/93

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."--President William Jefferson Clinton, USA TODAY 11 Mar 93

"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ..." President Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough"

"Younger fellows tend to be more liberal, turning conservative as they grow
older. Living is an education, and as you have experiences and continue your
education, your recommendations for the future become a plea to save the
best of the past.
That's why most young boys and younger men are not yet ready to preserve
anything."

"If you are true Southerners, reach back to your Southern roots for enough fortitude to stand up to the extortionist naacp attacking our proud Southern heritage since 1991. The best answer, I believe, goes back to Nancy Reagan: "Just Say No". Our heritage cannot be saved if they see us as weaklings. During Lincoln's War the South had 104,000 deserters. Think before you join them. Lincoln had 200,000+

W. H. Councill, colored, an Alabama teacher of an industrial school near Huntsville, writes to J. M. Falkner, Esq., the chief benefactor of the Confederate Home for Alabama, in which he makes a generous offer and some remarkable statements. The letter is as follows:

Dear Sir: In writing to you the other day in reference to the philanthropic work at Mountain Creek for the Confederate Veterans, I neglected to say that we should be proud to assist you in your laudable enterprise if you should desire us. We can furnish you at any time ten or fifteen carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, and others who might be useful in building up your soldiers' home. We should be glad to work a week or ten days without money and without price. Our shoe department will be glad to furnish you with at least a dozen pairs of shoes a year for those grand old men who followed Lee's tattered banners down to Appomattox, leaving their bloody footprints over the snow covered hills of Virginia.

Although I came up from the other side of the flood and drank of the dregs of the cup of slavery, still I honor those gray haired veterans, and I feel that, when they pass away and when their old slaves have passed away, in a measure the power of the balance wheel of Southern society will be gone. The propriety of this offer on my part may be called into question by those who do not measure slavery as I do. I feel that the slaves got more out of slavery than did their masters, in that the slaves were helped from the lowest state of barbarism to Christian citizenship of the greatest government the world ever knew.

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against 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 government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
-Tench Coxe

"It is to me simply incredible, that a people so shrewd and practical as those of the United States, should expect us to have discarded, through
the logic of the sword merely, the convictions of a lifetime; or that they could be deceived by us, should we be base enough to asset it of
ourselves. They know that the people of the South were conquered, and not convinced; and that the authority of the United States was accepted
by us from necessity, and not from preference. [snip] The people of the South went to war, because they sincerely believed (what their political
fathers had taught them, with one voice, for two generations) that the doctrine of State-sovereignty for which they fought, was absolutely
essential as the bulwark of the liberties of the people."

President Jefferson Davis "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."

"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms." President Jefferson Davis, 29 April, 1861

"Let men not ask what the law requires,
but give whatever freedom demands."
---Jefferson Davis

"When certain sovereign and independent states form a union
with limited powers for some general purpose, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal
an insurrection? If so, then of what advantage is a compact of union to states? Within the Union are oppressions and grievances; the attempt to go out brings war and subjugation. The ambitious and aggressive states obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the states.

Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels", as if they revolted against
a master, and a war of subjugation is begun. If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in
bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings of emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust of as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a "flaunting lie".

"I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather
leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it.''

Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind." Pres. Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis in a speech to fellow Southerners 1882:

"Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known all that was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again." A year earlier Davis had written to a fellow Southerner: "Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defence we made of our inheritance & denying the great truths on which all our institutions were founded. To be crushed by superior force, to be robbed & insulted, were great misfortunes, but these could be borne while there still remained manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course. When I find myself reviled by Southern papers as one renewing 'dead issues,' the pain is not caused by the attack upon myself, but by its desecration of the memories of our Fathers & those of their descendants who staked in defence of their rights -- their lives, their property & their sacred honor. To deny the justice of their cause, to apologize for its defence, and denounce it as a dead issue, is to take the last of their stakes, that for which they were willing to surrender the other."

"Under it we won our victories and its glory will never fade. It is enshrined in our hearts forever"
Varina Howell Davis

"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862,

"Any reasonable creature may know, if willing, that
the North hates the Negro, and that until it was
convenient to make a pretence that sympathy with him
was the cause of the war, it hated the abolitionists
and derided them up hill and down dale…As to Secession
being Rebellion, it is distinctly possible by state
papers that Washington considered it no such thing –
that Massachusetts, now loudest against it, has itself
asserted its right to secede, again and again."
–Charles Dickens

Frederick Douglas wrote.

"There are at the present moment, many colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

"Not one time did Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. put down the
Confederate Flag. He wanted blacks and whites to sit and eat together. I
asked Dr. Young, one of King's closest friends, what his feelings were
about that flag. He said, Leave it alone. Let's do something about the
things we can do something about, like our children selling drugs on the
street. King could never have brought us all together the way he did--
if he had put down the (Confederate) Flag." - H.K EDGERTON

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dear Dr. Scott:

Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War Between the States the issue of Secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.

General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his belief in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.

From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee's calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the nation's wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained .

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.

Sincerely,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Clement T. Elliot Southern parents, please, remove your children from the "Government Schools" (public schools), teach them at home yourself, or put them in private schools. The "Teacher's Labor Union" (The Politically Correct Police) is teaching your children to hate, despise, and deny their Southern
heritage. . . . . Clement T. Elliot

"Let us be certain that our children know that the war between the States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery, as some would have them to believe, but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought Were warriors tried and true, Who bore the flags of a Nation's trust, And fell in a cause, though lost, still just,
And died for me and you."
J. Taylor Ellyson

Jane Fonda "I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope,
you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."
Jane Fonda of Hanoi Jane notoriety at a discussion with students, at
Michigan State University, 1970.

It is interesting that she says you would pray......my question is to
whom.....communism denies a God, or other supreme being except the supreme
communist leader, so would she pray to president putin now to become
communist, or would she pray to the supreme communist, president clinton to
be come a commie? Chet McWhorter Sr.

Southerners and "Yankees" today face common enemies and common threats to their rights, interests, identity, and heritage as whites, and that the forces that have declared war on them and their heritage define themselves as well as their foes not in political, regional, or cultural terms but in terms of race. Whites who have been indifferent to the fate of the Confederate flag and similar symbols in the recent controversies should not be surprised, therefore, when historical symbols important to their own identity come under assault from anti-white radicals in the future.

"Those who trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to
have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

"But the mass of respectable Northerners, though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood
in a war of aggression, ambition, and conquest; for this war is essentially
a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now
engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in
endeavouring to conquer the South; but the more I think of all that I have
seen in the Confederate States of the devotion of the whole population, the
more I feel inclined to say with General Polk----["How can you subjugate
such a people as this?"] and even supposing that their extermination were a
feasible plan, as some Northerners have suggested, I never can believe
that in the nineteenth century the civilised world will be condemned to
witness the destruction of such a gallant race."

"The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."
- Albert Gallatin

"Beloved, the South might not always be right, but we ain't never
wrong!"
Brother Dave Gardner

Wilmot, explained to King Gelele: "England has been doing her utmost to stop the slave trade in this country. Much money has been spent, and many lives sacrificed to obtain this desirable end, but hitherto without success. I have come to ask you to put an end to this traffic and to enter into some treaty with me."

Gelele refused: "If white men came to buy, why should I not sell?" Wilmot asked how much money he needed. "No money will induce me...I am not like the kings of Lagos and Benin. There are only two kings in Africa, Ashanti and Dahomey: I am King of all the Blacks. Nothing will compensate me for the loss of the slave trade." Gelele also told Burton, "If I cannot sell my captives taken in war, I must kill them, and surely the English would not like that. King Gelele of Africa

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."--Mahatma Gandhi

Lincoln's war implied, and the Gettysburg Address set to words, a firm message to the States of the Union - "I love you all, and if you leave me, I'll hunt you down and kill you." The Address was not the sagely comments of a wise statesman, rather the vain, obsessive rantings of a power-hungry demon engaging in a blood-thirsty mission of self-aggrandizement, no matter the volume of corpses required to attain it.

" I enlisted with the hope and desire of rendering aid to the great and
glorious
cause of Southern independence, prompted by principle, religiously
believing that
the time had arrived when we were justifiable in resisting Northern
aggression,
and even at the expense of this once unparalleled Republic. As for my
part I don't
want to survive a subjugation of my country." --Col. J. Goodner

"The sole object of this war is to restore the union. Should I
become convinced it has any other object, or that the Government designs
using its soldiers to execute the wishes of the Abolitionists, I pledge you
my honor as a man and a soldier I would
resign my commission and carry my sword to the other side."

"It is highly probable that had a popular election been held at any time during the year following the 4th of July, 1862, on the question of continuing the war, or arresting it on the best attainable terms, a majority would have voted for peace; while it is highly probable that a still larger majority would have voted against emancipation."

"You have no right to ask, or expect that she will at once profess unbounded
love to that Union from which for four years she tried to escape at the cost
of her best blood and all her treasure. Nor can you believe her to be so
unutterably hypocritical, so base, as to declare that the flag of the Union
has already surpassed in her heart the place which has so long been sacred to
the 'Southern Cross.' " General Wade Hampton

persistently claim that their rebellion is for the purpose of preserving this form

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
- 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 Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the
people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government,
lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

-- Patrick Henry

CBS NEWS President Andrew Heyward, who is quoted as saying: "Look Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left."

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."--Heinrich Himmler

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
- Adolph Hitler

"The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
- Adolf Hitler

"The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." - Adolf Hitler

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to posess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."--Adolf Hitler

Zora Neale Hurston, the great black writer of the Harlem Renaissance,…."but the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw was: my people had sold me…..My own people had exterminated whole nations and torn families apart for a profit before the strangers got their chance for a cut. It was a sobering thought."

"There is nothing so absurd but that if you mention it enough, people will come to believe it."

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe....The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.

"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

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That
all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people
(10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus
specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition."
--- Thomas Jefferson (The WBTS was fought over this 10th Amendment)

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -- Thomas Jefferson.

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government, the truth can stand on it's own"-Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." --Thomas Jefferson

"I know no safe depository 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

"On every question of construction [of the Constitution], let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invent against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson

"..the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. For the conclusion of this war [for Independence] we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
--Thomas Jefferson

"A Strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
- Thomas Jefferson

"No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution."--Thomas Jefferson

The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws
are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own
sphere of action but for the legislature and executive also in their
spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch. To consider the
judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a
very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the
despotism of an oligarchy.... The Constitution has erected no such
single tribunal. Thomas Jefferson

"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood."

Thomas Jefferson

``To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.''

"Principles dont have funerals. We are safe while we keep a sure grip on our principles." -- H. W. Johnstone, Georgian and Confederate, and author of "The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861"

President John Kennedy "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -John F. Kennedy

"...None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free..."
- Carl Klang

Half of the Supreme Court justices are of the mind that the United States Constitution is a living document. The Soviet Union’s Constitution paralleled much of what is in the U.S. Constitution, except that it could be changed to accommodate the exigencies of the moment. In other words, Soviet courts interpreted a living constitution, which is in reality no constitution. Ignoring the wisdom of its drafters, the liberal members think of the Constitution as an anachronism that stifles change - a barrier to social fine-tuning. Although they won’t admit it, their belief is that the Constitution should be viewed under glass - a historical memento, not the key foundation block of the Republic.

These black-robed termites undermine the Republic’s pilings by creating rather than interpreting the Constitution.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its
books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,
manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will
begin to forget what it is and what it was." Milan Kundera

"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy,
with all the fire of your faith." --Abraham Kuyper

"There have been in every group, and individuals who, despising their birthright, have been faithless to that trust. So it has been and so it is in (the South). But the majority of (Southerners) have been taught from infancy, and they understand, how it came about that Israel became a great nation, while Edom faded into oblivion, and they agree with the great Disraeli who said, "No man will treat with indifference the principle of Race, for it is the key to history".

Colonel Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, at the dedication of the Confederate monument at Old Chapel in Clarke County, Virginia.

"Twenty eight years have passed since the close of our civil war. Time,
I trust has healed the wounds of war, but with the revolving years the causes
and events of that terrible struggle seem to be forgotten, or if not
forgotten, considered as unimportant events of history. And even the history
of those events, and the causes that led to that struggle, are not set forth
fairly and truthfully. It is stated in books and papers that Southern
children read and study that all the blood-shedding and destruction of
property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause
against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern
soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their
leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to
preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free
government and the welfare of the human family.

As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the
charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to
perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a
government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes."

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms."
- Richard Henry Lee

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..."
- Richard Henry Lee

"What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." - Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA

"Duty is the sublimest word in our English language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." Robert E.
Lee

"I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none."

"In spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or of the present aspect of affairs, do I despair the future? The truth is this: the march of Providence is so slow, our desires so impatient, the work of progress is so immense, and our means of aiding it so feeble, the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." ~ Robert E. Lee

"We could have pursued no other course without dishonour. And as sad as the results have been, if it had all to be done over again, we should be
compelled to act in precisely the same manner."
General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

"Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate
the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend
to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and
battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows
the principles for which the South contended and which justified
her struggle for those principles." Gen. Robert E. Lee

"All that the South has ever desired was the Union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth."
Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand." CSA General Robert E. Lee

To his daughter, he wrote, "I hope you will also find time to read and improve your mind. Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances. Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."

"If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back
soonest is the most progressive man. . . . Going back is the quickest
way on." C. S. Lewis

when asked "Why not let the South go in peace?"
Lincoln replied: "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?"

Lincoln said: " ... in saving the union, I have destroyed the Republic. Before me I have the Confederacy, which I loath. *But behind me I have the bankers, which I fear

In order to coalesce the forces in the North, Lincoln had to stage an
incident to inflame the populace, which he did. The firing on Sumter was
by his own admission a setup for just such action. Lincoln was aware
that provisioning Sumter could provoke a war.

Lincoln's letter to Gustavus Fox on 1 May, 1861, makes it clear that he
was pleased by the result of the firing on Ft Sumter..." You and I both
anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making
the attempt to provision Ft Sumter, even if it should fail; and it is no
small consolation now to feel that our anticipation is justified by the
result. "

Abraham Lincoln said the following on September 18, 1858 in a speech in
Charleston, Illinois:
"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been , in favor of bringing
about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black
races [applause]: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making
voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to
intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there
is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe
will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and
political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do
remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I
as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position
assigned to the white race." Abe Lincoln

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the
right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new
one that suits them better. This is a most valuable a most sacred right
a right, which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this
right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing
government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that
can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much territory as they
inhabit." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office." Campaign Speech

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery". First Inaugural Address

"I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District (of Columbia)." To Horace Greeley

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it".
To Horace Greeley

"What then will become of my tariff?" Abraham Lincoln to Virginia
compromise delegation, March 1861.

On August 14, 1862, Lincoln received a deputation of free Negroes at the White House to which he said, "But for your race there could not be
war...It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated." He advocated
colonization in Central America and promised them help in carrying out the
project.

"Such separation...must be effected by colonization...to transfer the
African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however
great the task may be." From a speech delivered in Springfield, IL; 26
June 1857

"What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black
races." From a speech in Springfield; 17 July 1858

"I will say here...I have no purpose to introduce political and social
equality between the white and the black race...there is a physical
difference between the two, which...will forever forbid them living
together upon the footing of perfect equality, and...I am in favor of the
race to
which I belong, having the superior position."
Reply to Stephen A. Douglas in the first joint debate, Ottowa, IL; 21
Aug 1858

In August, 1862, Lincoln convened a White House conference with black leaders and said to them: "Why should people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while we suffer from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason, at least, why we should be separated."

"Send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But free them and make them
politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit this."

"Some ten years later, in his December 1, 1862, message to Congress, Lincoln
reiterated that 'I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I
strongly favor colonization."

"Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to
make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and
fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?" --

"...I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of
bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white
and black races...nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors
of Negroes...nor to intermarry with white people...I have never seen to
my
knowledge a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect
equality, social or political, between Negroes and white men."
Opening speech, fourth joint debate with Douglas, Charleston, IL; 18 Sep
1858

And, while prosecuting the war to "free the slaves," Lincoln said:

"I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor
colonization...in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood
and race."
Annual message to Congress; 1 Dec 1862

"The [Emancipation] proclamation has no constitutional or legal
justification except as a war measure."
Letter to Sec. of Treas. Salmon P. Chase; 3 Sep 1863

***"The suspension of the habeas corpus was for the purpose that men may be
arrested and held in prison who cannot be proved guilty of any defined crime."

"Arrests," wrote President Lincoln to that Albany committee of Democrats,
"are not made so much for what has been done as for what might be done. The
man who stands by and says nothing when the peril of his Government is
discussed cannot be misunderstood. If not hindered (by arrest, imprisonment,
or death) he is sure to help the enemy."

Under Lincoln's definition silence became an act of treason.

"Much more, if a man talks ambiguously, talks with 'buts' and 'ifs' and
'ands' he cannot be misunderstood. If not hindered (by imprisonment or death)
this man will actively commit treason. Arbitrary arrests are not made for the
treason defined in the Constitution, but to prevent treason."****

Lincoln supported his home state's law, passed in 1853, forbidding
blacks to move to Illinois. The Illinois state constitution, adopted in
1848, called for laws to "effectually prohibit free persons of color from
immigrating to and settling in this state."

Lincoln blamed blacks for the Civil War, telling them, "But for your
race among us there could not be a war, although many men engaged on either
side do not care for you one way or another."

Lincoln claimed that "the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race
of mongrels. I understand that there is not more than one person there out
of eight who is pure white.

Repeatedly over the course of his career, Lincoln urged that American
blacks be sent to Africa or elsewhere.

In 1854, Lincoln declared his "first impulse would be to free all the
slaves, and send them to Liberia - to their own native land." In 1860,
Lincoln called for the
"emancipation and deportation" of slaves.

In his State of the Union addresses as president, he twice called for the
deportation of blacks. In 1865, in the last days of his life, Lincoln said
of blacks, "I believe it would be better to export them all to some fertile
country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves."

"Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater
effect upon the slaves than the late law of Congress, which I approved, and
which offers protection and freedom to the slaves of rebel masters who come
within our lines? Yet I cannot learn that the law has caused a single slave to
come over to us."

"We didn't go into the war to put down slavery, but to put the flag back; and to act differently at this moment would, I have no doubt, not only weaken our cause, but smack of bad faith..." Abraham Lincoln.

"But for the difference in habit of observation, why did Yankees almost instantly discover gold in California, which had been trodden upon and overlooked by Indians and Mexican greasers for centuries". Abraham Lincoln

As for the so-called "Emancipation Proclamation" any informed scholar knows
that it was a propaganda tool intended to (hopefully) cause widespread slave
uprisings to drain Confederate soldiers to quell them (none occurred); to
create a "cause" around which the North would rally (200,000 Union soldiers
immediately deserted); and to prevent seemingly-close diplomatic recognition
by France and the British Empire (which would have meant fighting those navies
to maintain the blockade). Since Lincoln knowingly excluded freeing a single
slave in any area of the North _and_ South controlled by the Union Army, it
was a transparent lie.

Senator from Massachusetts, , added years later, "It is safe to say that there was not a man in the country...who did not regard the new system as an experiment from
which each and every state has a right to withdraw. " In fact, several states refused to accept such permanency. The states relented only after being assured of the possibility of 'peaceful withdrawal' if the experiment failed."

London Times 7 November 1861:

The contest is really for empire on the side of the North and for
independence on that of the South...

If the South had only wanted to protect slavery, all they had to do was go along with the ORIGINAL 13th Amendment, offered in early 1861 after several states had seceded, which would have protected slavery for all time in the states where it then existed. This was not inducement enough
to bring South Carolina or any others back into the fold.
The States of the Confederacy, even today, could block the passage of the 13th Amendment, and certainly could have then. This is exactly why the Slaveholders wanted to stay in the Union.. Their "property"
was protected by the Constitution.. Charlie Lott

Brig-General Nathaniel Lyon, on behalf of Lincoln, formally declared war on the State of Missouri stating, "Rather than concede to the State of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my Government in any manner, however unimportant" - he rose from his chair, spurs clinking, and pointed at Governor Jackson’s breast, "I will see you" - he touched the bosom of General Price - "and you" - he prodded solemn Blair - "and you" - he poked Secretary Snead "and every man woman and child in the State of Missouri dead and buried!"

James Madison

"Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion."
- James Madison

"the ultimate authority...resides in the people alone..."
- James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 46

"The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..."
- James Madison

"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed--unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust people with arms." - James Madison

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not on the power of government...[but] upon the capacity of each and every one of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."--James Madison

Madison said in Federalist No. 46 that the proposed new
federal government would never dare encroach on the people's rights, since
to any regular army "would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a
million citizens with arms in their hands." To which Madison's friend Tench
Coxe added "Who are the militia? are they not ourselves? Congress have no
power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and EVERY OTHER TERRIBLE
IMPLEMENT OF THE SOLDIER, are the birth-right 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 it will ever remain, in the
hands of the people." (Coxe's "Examination of the Constitution," 1788.)

"History shows that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over governments by controlling the money and the issuance of it." President James A. Madison

The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty. Karl Marx, 1861

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people... To disarm the people, that is the best and most effective way to enslave them..."
- George Mason

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic declines. There has either been
a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or an ultimate national disaster."
- General Douglas MacArthur

* "[The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence....The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all." Rep. McFadden testified in Congress (1933). There were at least two attempts on his life by gunfire. He died of suspected poisoning after attending a banquet.

"There are two views of history: (1) History happens
by accident or (2) It is planned. The general public
is taught that history happens by accident. However,
the upper echelons... know that history is planned."
-
R.E. McMaster, Jr., The Power of Total Perspective.

"How few of our children know that Jamestown, Virginia, was settled many years before the Pilgrim Fathers came to this country, or that the vast
domain which forms four-fifths of the United States was won by Southern
men, or that slavery was forced upon this country by England, seconded by
New England, or that in 1860 one-tenth of the slaves were communicants in
churches."

"Help me to dodge the nigger--we want nothing to do with him. I am fighting to preserve the integrity of the Union and the power of the Govt--on no other issue. To gain that end we cannot afford to mix up the negro question--it must be incidental and subsidiary. The President is perfectly honest and is really sound on the nigger question." *General George B. McClellan

"The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous
oration in American history... the highest emotion reduced to a few
poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It
is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, no logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who
died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of
self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for
the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine
anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought
against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the
right of their people to govern themselves." -- H.L. Mencken

"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights." --H.L.MENCKEN

You are to burn their houses, seize all their property and shoot them. You will be sure that you strictly carry out this order. You will inform the
inhabitants for ten or fifteen miles around your camp, on all the roads
approaching the town upon which the enemy may approach, that they must dash in and give you notice, and upon any one failing to do so, you will burn
their houses and shoot the men.
Lincoln's Brigadier General R. H. MILROY

The London (England) Spectator said "the Union government liberates the
enemy's slaves as it would the enemy's cattle, simply to weaken them in the
conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another,
but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States."

Dixie's Not Down yet! She lives and thrives through her history and those who love her history will save it so that others can bring some of it back
to life. Maury Morris, a Virginian

All the pride and affection that Virginians had felt in the traditions of
the government which their ancestors had made, and the great inheritance
which they had bequeathed, were lost in the overpowering sentiment of
sympathy with the people who were threatened with invasion. It is a mistake
to suppose that the Virginia people went to war in obedience to any decree
of their State, commanding them to go. On the contrary, the people were in
a state of armed revolution before the State had acted in its corporate
capacity. I went along with the flood like everybody else.

"The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. [...] They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results." Benito Mussolini

New Orleans Daily Crescent-1861
"They (the South) know that it is their import trade that draws from the people's pockets sixty or seventy millions of dollars per annum, in the shape of duties, to be expended mainly in the North, and in the protection and encouragement of Northern interest.... These are the reasons why these people do not wish the South to secede from the Union. They (the North) are enraged at the prospect of being despoiled of the rich feast upon which they have so long fed and fattened, and which they were just getting ready to enjoy with still greater gout and gusto. They are as mad as hornets because the prize slips them just as they are ready to grasp it."

Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been
rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and
building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process
is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always
right." George Orwell, _1984

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside...horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them..."
- Thomas Paine

John Field Pankow
''To me, however, the campaign by certain groups to remove all the symbols
and memorials to our Southern past amounts to the same thing...a desecration
of graves. Every flag or monument that is removed, every plaque taken down,
every school or street or bridge that is renamed, is no different from a
broken tombstone. It is wanton and hateful violence directed at the dead who
can no longer defend themselves.'' -- John Field Pankow

Chester Pierce, a Professor of Educational Psychiatry at Harvard, said,
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because
he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers,
toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate
entity. It's up to you, teachers, to make all these sick children well by
creating the international child of the future."

"I say we cannot know your suffering, but this we do know; We love and honor you, veterans, and are justly proud of the heritage you have given us. Just so long as warm blood flows in the veins of man, so long will the words "Confederate Veteran" cause that blood to tingle with glorious pride, and, if there be one among us, born in our glorious Southland who is not so thrilled, every drop of stagnant blood proclaims him bastard to the South- a coward to all the world."

William Pitt "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves" -William Pitt

Edward A. Pollard, pub. 1866:

In such a condition there may possible be a solid and honourable peace; and one in which the South may still preserve many thins dear to her in the past. There may not be a political South. Yet there may be a social and intellectual South. But if, on the other hand, the South, mistaking the consequesnces of the war, accepts the position of the inferiour, and gives up what was never claimed or conquered in the war; surrenders her schools of intellect and thought, and is left only with the brutal desire of the conquered for "bread and games:" then indeed to her people may be applied what Tacitus wrote of those who existed under the Roman Empire:
"We cannot be said to have lived, but rather to have crawled in silence,
the young towards the decrepitude of age and the old to dishonourable graves."

Colin Powell - "Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being
that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America,
that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen"

"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all History. Its purpose is to destroy the United States!"
- Congressman John E. Rankin

"You have no reason to be ashamed of your
ancestors. See to it that they have no reason to be ashamed of you!"

According to Rhodes, in his "History of the United States," Vol. IV., page 344, he says; "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was not issued from a humane standpoint. Lincoln hoped it would incite the Negroes to rise against the women and children." "His Emancipation Proclamation was intended only as a punishment for the seceding states. It was with no thought of freeing the slaves of more than 300,000 slaveholders then in the Northern army."
"His Emancipation Proclamation was issued for a fourfold purpose and it was
issued with fear and trepidation lest he should offend his Northern
constituents.
He did it: "First: Because of an oath - that if Lee should be driven from
Maryland he would free the slaves." "Second: The time of enlistment had
expired for many men in the army and he hoped this would encourage their
re-enlistment." "Third: Trusting that Southern men would be forced to return
home to protect their wives and children from Negro insurrection." "Fourth:
Above all he issued it to prevent foreign nations from recognizing the
Confederacy."

Lincoln admitted that he thought that the issuing of the Emancipation
Proclamation would "result in the massacre of women and children in the
South." No mass insurrection ever took place. The violence that did occur as
result of Lincoln's document took place in the North.

In New York, the most violent riot ever in the United States took place as
citizens protested against Lincoln's political maneuver coupled with his
initiation of the draft. On July 13, 1863, in New York City, a riot broke
out and raged for 3 days in what historian Burke Davis called "the nearest
approach to revolution" during the entire war.

Mobs surged through the streets, burned buildings, and destroyed the drum
from which the names of 1,200 New Yorkers had been drawn for military
service. There were no soldiers to check the violence, due to the
concentration of all available troops at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, so
policemen and militia units had to face the rioters alone.

The angry mob burned fine homes, business buildings, the draft office, a
Methodist church, a Negro orphanage, and many other buildings. A Negro was
hung, then burned as people danced around the burning body. More than thirty
Negroes were killed - shot, hung, or trampled to death. It had been reported
that Negroes were hung from the lamp posts along the streets. The mobs grew
to an estimated strength of between 50,000 and 70,000. For three days they
swarmed through the streets, setting up barricades on First, Second, and
Eighth Avenues, where sometimes a force of only 300 policemen would have to
face 10,000 attackers at a time. Some troops filtered into town, and the
crowds took to alleys and rooftops where they killed soldiers with bricks
and guns. The gangs caught the colonel of a militia unit, stomping and
beating him to death. After dragging him to his home, men, women, and
children danced around his body. Eventually, enough troops arrived to put an
end to the rioting. Casualties were heavy -nearly 2,000 people were dead
from the melee.

Chaotic conditions in the North were in sharp contrast to those in the
beleaguered Southland where one might have expected that the exigencies of
war would necessitate curtailment of basic privileges, yet never was the
writ of habeas corpus suspended during the lifetime of the Confederate
States of America. Many soldiers in the U.S. Army, especially in the Western
theater, laid down their arms due to Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation
Proclamation. They refused to fight after finding that the federal
government had implied that the war was, from that point, to be fought over
the issue of slavery.

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"-- Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans... The one
absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." Theodore Roosevelt, October 12, 1915

"The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee; and their Leader will undoubtedly rank as without exception the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The sellouter is morally evil; the retreatist, in
contrast, is, to put it kindly, terribly misguided. The sellouts are not
worth talking to; the retreatists must realize that it is not betraying the
cause, far from it, to fight against evil; and not to abandon the real
world."

"It is true that, in the long run, we will never be free until the
intellectuals--the natural molders of public opinions--have been
converted to the side of freedom. In the short run, however, the only
route to liberty is by an appeal to the masses over the heads of the
State and its intellectual bodyguard. And this appeal can be made most
effectively by the demagogue--the rough, unpolished man of the people,
who can present the truth in simple, effective, yes emotional,
language. The intellectuals see this clearly, and this is why they
constantly attack every indication of libertarian demagoguery as part
of a "rising tide of anti-intellectualism." Of course, it is not
anti-intellectualism; it is the saving of mankind from those
intellectuals who have betrayed the intellect itself.

Let's put it this way: we must not abandon our lives, our properties, our America, the real world, to the barbarians. Never."

"The Emancipation Proclamation... professes to emancipate all slaves in places where the United States authorities cannot exercise any jurisdiction... but it does not decree emancipation... in any states occupied by federal troops."

Ronald J. Rychlak, professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford wrote:

"Whereas most northern cities have neighborhoods flavored by cultural identities, that is missing in the South. Southern cities have no European ethnic centers. There is no Greek-town, no Little Italy and no German neighborhood. ... For the average Southerner, the 'old country' is neither Poland nor France; it is the Confederacy."

"Captain, the secret treachery that caused the war will come to light, and justify the South. Truth is deathless!" -- Admiral Raphael Semmes, C.S.N.

Senator William H. Seward, speaking out against the idea of war, says, "I do
not know what the Union would be worth if saved by the sword."

"Look at the
South until you are filled with the love of her, and when you are filled with her greatness, reflect that it was acquired by men of daring who knew their duty and feared dishonor in the hour of action." Moreover, "All alike gave their lives and received praise
which grows not old. I speak not so much of that in which their remains are laid as of that in which their glory survives to be remembered forever, on every fitting occasion in word and deed. There are monuments and graves for famous men, but the memorials we speak of today are not so much engraved in stone as in the hearts of men." Dana Sheppard

"To the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or SHE is disposed of the better. Satan and
the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell
merely to swell their punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjustified."….Gen. William T. Sherman

"Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of it's roads, houses, and PEOPLE will cripple their military resources….I can make the march, and make Georgia howl." Gen. W.T. Sherman

"There is a class of people [in the South], men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." …..Gen. W.T. Sherman

"I have deemed it to the interest of the United States that the citizens now residing in Atlanta should remove, those who prefer it to go South and the
rest North."…..Gen. W.T. Sherman

"The Government of the United States has in North Alabama any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war--to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything, because they cannot deny that war does exist there, and war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact."

"Next year their lands will be taken, for in war we can take them, and
rightfully too, and another year they may beg in vain for their lives.
A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know
the consequences. Many many people, with less pertinacity than the South,
have been wiped out of national existence.
To those who submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and
forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionist, why, death is
mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better."
William Sherman

"The United States has the right, and ... the ... power, to penetrate to every part of the national domain…. We will remove and destroy every obstacle - if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper."

"The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers." Gen. W.T. Sherman

On August 4, 1863, W.T.Sherman in Camp on Big Black River, Mississippi, wrote to Grant at Vicksburg, "the Amount of burning, stealing and plundering done by our army makes me ashamed of it. I would rather quit the service if I could, because I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism....You and I and every commander must go through the war, justly charged with crimes at which we blush."
Federal Official Records ( O.R.) vol. XXIV, pt. III 574

"In all their motley array there was hardly a uniform to be seen, and then, and throughout all the brilliant campaign on which they were about to enter there was nothing to distinguish their officers, even a general, from the men in the ranks, save a bit of red flannel, or a piece of cotton cloth, fastened to the shoulder, or to the arm, of the former. But for all that, they were the truest and best of soldiers... Among them there was hardly a man who could not read and write, and who was not more intelligent than the great mass of American citizens; not one who had not voluntarily abandoned his home with all its tender ties, and thrown away all his possessions, and left father and mother, or wife and children, within the enemy's lines, that he might himself stand by the South in her hour of great peril, and help her to defend her fields and her firesides. And among them all there was not a man who had come forth to fight for slavery."

~~ Thomas Snead

"If slavery were the real issue, then slavery among flesh-and-blood human beings alive today would arouse far more outcry than past slavery among people who are long dead. The difference is that past slavery can be cashed in for political benefits today." Thomas Sowell

"The Union of Sovereign States, each state deriving its powers from its own people, and the federal government having only those powers granted it by the states, ended when Lincoln was allowed to eviscerate the Constitution. Lincoln did not save the Union, the Union that the delegates founded in 1788. A new Union was created in the 1860s with power over the states, power usurped by deception and maintained by force."

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" Stalin

"The naacp has succeeded in corrupting our language, literature, music, education, morals, history and countless other issues which made this country a great nation."

Forty-six years after the war Charles Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," addressing a negro university in Nashville, Tenn., said: "It is certain there was a rebellion, but the Northerners were the rebels, not the Southerners."

Harriet Beecher Stowe Out upon all this the brooding eyes of a strange woman looked critically
from her plantation house of ‘Laurel Grove’ on the west side of the St.
Johns River, near the village of Orange Park, Florida. Occasionally she
wrote her observations to her brother in the North. ‘Corrupt politicians
arc already beginning to speculate on [the negroes] as possible capital for
their schemes, and to fill their poor heads with all sorts of vagaries.’
One day she wrote the Duchess of Argyll in praise of Johnson and in
criticism of the Radicals. ‘My brother Henry. . . takes the ground that it
is unwise and impolitic to endeavor to force negro suffrage on the South at
the point of the bayonet’ — and so thought the writer.

The lady writing from ‘Laurel Grove’ was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ who had taken up her residence in Florida in 1866.’

The Chief Surgeon of camp Elmira was overheard to boast, before resigning to avoid court martial, he had killed more rebels than any Union soldier. Bottom line & there was 3,866 more Confederate soldiers who died in Union prisons than Union soldiers in Confederate prisons.

John Swinton, former chief-of-staff for the New York Times. In an address
to fellow journalists, he once said:

"There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you
did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid
weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in any one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone." He continues:

"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to
pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, so what folly
is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich
men behind the scenes... They pull the strings... AND WE DANCE."

"What then, is "racism?" It is considerably more than any dictionary is likely to say. It is any opposition by whites to official policies of racial preference for non-whites. It is any preference by whites for their own people and culture. It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people. It is any unwillingness to be pushed aside. It is, in short, any of the normal aspirations of people-hood that have defined nations since the beginning of history - but only so long as the aspirations are those of whites".

John W. Thomason Jr.
"It was never a homogeneous army. The Tidewater regiments of Virginia
with ... their cavalier dash were not quite the same as the sturdy
blue-light soldiers from the Valley whom Stonewall Jackson led down to First
Manassas. They were plain and simple men from the hill farms of North
Carolina and Tennessee ... who hardened under fire as steel in a furnace.
South Carolina sent high-nosed heroes ... hard-dying men in any company. In
the hearts of Alabama and Georgia soldiers there smouldered always an angry
hell, burning brightest in battle. From Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas
came the tall hunters who broke the cane and bridled the western waters;
bear killers and Indian fighters regarded as savage and dreadful by
civilized patriots called to arms out of rock-fenced New England pastures.
Louisiana sent those famous cosmopolitan Zouaves called the Louisiana Tigers
... and there were Florida troops who, undismayed in fire, stampeded the
night after Fredericksburg, when the Aurora Borealis snapped and crackled
over that field of the frozen dead hard by the Rappahannock ...
"One thing they had in common a belief in Southern rights. That one of
those rights involved the dark institution of chattel slavery is not
pertinent because few of them owned slaves or hoped to own them. That tariff
and free trade entered into it is not pertinent, either: These were
pastorals, and their economics were bounded by their fields and woodlots ...
Those men believed in something. They counted life a light thing to lay down
in the faith they bore. They were terrible in battle. They were generous in
victory. They rose up from defeat to fight again, and while they lived they were formidable. There were not enough of them. That is all."

"The parties in this conflict are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists, Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on one side and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground, Christianity and Atheism the Combatants, and the progress of humanity the stake."

Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It
can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the
public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses
over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line. -- Harry S. Truman

"Surely, there is in our story food to satisfy the reflective and to fire the hearts of the brave, for many generations; how that written constitutions which men are sworn to support, are yet as feathers in the gale before the fierce passions excited by interest, sectional hatred, and religious bigotry, and that the only hope of freedom is, after all, when her anchors take hold deep down in the hearts of men; how that a simple agricultural people, unused to war, without manufactures, without ships, shut out from the world and supposed to be effeminated and degenerated by African slavery, yet waged a four years contest against four times their numbers, and ten times their means, supplementing all their necessities, and improvising all their material almost out of dreary wastes of chaos; how that their generals wrought out campaigns not discreditable to the genius of Hannibal, Caius Julius, Marlborough and Napoleon; whilst their gently nurtured soldiers fought and marched and endured with the courage of the Grecian phalanx, the steadiness of the Roman Legion, and the endurance of the British Lion--and all because the Southern people had preserved the lofty souls and gallant spirits of their ancestry; had treasured up the traditions of chivalry and personal honor which their fathers had bequeathed them as the highest glory of a race, instead, of the heaping together of dollars; the great lesson which this age is striving to forget, that States will be as their men are, that men will be as their souls are, sordid or lofty as they are taught: And if there be any man among us, North or South, who feels that the truth of this cruel war should not be known, or that it is dangerous to honor that courage and patriotism which extend to the giving of life in its support, in any cause which a Christian soldier could maintain; or that unfaithfulness to present duty is bred from a reverencing of the memory of those who died to preserve their faith ; with such I have no desire to harmonize, the good opinion of all such I can afford to despise. We know that the glorious profession of arms is of the highest importance to a State; and a skill to wield the sword and .the manhood to fight battles are cardinal elements of successful civilization. All peace and mental cultivation produce effeminate Greeks of the lower empire. All war and physical development produce the Goth and the Hun. But when the martial and the civil spirit are judiciously combined, the highest types of human progress are brought forth."

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States, by owning the media, you can make the [many] believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them.

"Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history, and denies them their symbols, has sewn the seed of its own destruction."
Sir William Wallace 1281 A.D.

Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to become the nation’s first widely recognized black leader, once warned against what he called "problem profiteers" among our nation’s black community. "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public," observed Washington. "Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

"I have never seen [a former slave] who did not want to be free,
or one who would return to slavery," reflected Washington in his
memoir Up From Slavery. Writing just decades after chattel
slavery had been abolished in the United States, Washington
observed that "the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country,
who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of
American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition,
materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is
true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of
the globe."

"Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long. I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced. In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites. I felt that the Negro would be the one to suffer for this in the end. Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property. "

Presidential farewell address "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence... From the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable... The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place of honor with all that's good... A free people ought to be armed."
- George Washington

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
- George Washington

"In the War Between the States, Southerners believed that they were fighting to defend the government as it was laid down at Philadelphia in 1787 and as recognized by various state ordinances of ratification. This was a government of restricted power, commissioned to do certain things which the states could not do for themselves, but strictly defined as to its authority." As long as each state was viewed as a sovereign entity, "the maximum amount of self-determination by the states" preserved, and states' rights rigorously upheld, any drift towards despotism was automatically nipped in the bud. That, according to Weaver, was ultimately the issue over which the South went to war since it held that the North "was rebelling against this idea which had been accepted by the members of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Or to put it another way, the North was staging a revolution, the purpose of which was to do away with this older concept of the American government." The South rejected this revolution and sought to defend what it insisted were its God-given rights. When the War Between the States is seen in these terms, the issue of slavery, firmly fixed in the minds of so many Americans as the true cause of the war, is understood rather to be merely the catchword of the War Party in the North, and a shallow excuse to wage war and impose a social revolution.

"If the Union was formed by the accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States."