It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Category: demagogues
Addicted to power
Those who have been intoxicated with power … can never willingly abandon it.
Power to the people?
Socialists cry ‘power to the people’ and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know they really mean power over people. Power to the state.
State PR
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.
Equality and liberty
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.
When they’re out of power they’re just funny
Being a Democrat means you don’t need a conscience or a moral compass. You cater to the ignorant, the lazy, and the morally reprehensible. You blatantly lie to them. Most of them know it and they don’t care. They are motivated by greed, ignorance, and hate. You stand for nothing except enriching yourself at the expense of the law-abiding people of this country who work and pay the taxes you buy votes with.
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Political promises
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there’s nothing more insecure than a political promise.
The pretext of ‘necessity’
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
Watch your ‘leaders’
The danger to all well-established free governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in … the influence of designing men … This is the old trick of those who would usurp the government of their country. In the name of democracy they speak, warning the people against the influence of wealth and the danger of aristocracy … The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy … and, like the false Christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior, seeks to, and were it possible would, impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty. It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.
Skepticism needed
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.