Fave quotes thread (in Banjo's honor!)

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I didn't save it, but I guess we'll just have to start over:

One nation, under surveillance, totally divided, with enslavement and injustice for all.-- yours true :)


"Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves."

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law. -- Edward Abbey

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It is the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

[wildcard]

Where now the horse and the rider? where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harp-string, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning?
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning??


Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.”-Niccolo Machiavelli


No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

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You can buy a man's time, you can even buy his physical presence at a given place, but you cannot enthusiasm...you cannot buy loyalty...you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds or souls. You must earn these.

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;
tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

[wildcard]

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . ."
The Gulag Archipelago -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

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I'd rather be caught by cops with my gun, than by criminals without it.


The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.


Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc;

[Libertytree]

Life is like a sh!t sandwich......the more bread ya got the less sh!t ya eat. ;D

[Tinman]

Some quotes by former GIM members-

I've found that the worst thing about searching for the truth is finding it. - Jack London on GIM forum

"*Sigh* Remember the days when we worried more about what the Soviets would do next than about what our own government would do next? Or when "jack-booted thug" made one think of Nazis and the KGB and not our own police force?" -maddie on agora forum 1/6/08

The Department of Homeland Security wasn't created to protect you from terrorist,
it was created to protect the Federal Government from YOU. -Carl on GIM forum

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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

[dysgenic]

In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched." -Aldous Huxley

[Ponce]

"If you have a gun and I don't, I could be your slave... but... if you have a gun and I also have a gun the we could be friends"... me ;D

[carpediem]

if a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. franklin

none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. goethe

the first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the last refuge of political and economic opportunists. hemingway

been watching a few old george carlin videos... can't get enough... 'its called the american dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it'

luck is when preparation meets opportunity

[Apparition]

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."

-Thomas Jefferson

[Brent]

“Determined conspiracy-hunters will accept practically any crackpot theory on which to base their futile speculations but the real conspiracy, which is staring them in the face, is taboo.” –Simon Sheppard, Space Religion

“Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.” –Alex Linder, L’Affair Limbaugh

“A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you.” –Joseph Sobran, quoted in Kevin MacDonald’s Seperation and Its Discontents (p.66)

“A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.” –Arnold Leese, from the December 1937 edition of The Fascist

“When Steven Spielberg clutched his Academy Award for Schindler’s List, saying it’s for the ’six million,’ was he speaking of a quantity of people killed, or the quantity of dollars poured into his bank account?” –Crispin Hellion Glover, What Is It?

“Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.” –Harold Covington, The Importance of Holocaust Revisionism

“Given the nonsense churned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.” –Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (p.68)

“Hitler’s worst mistake is that he did NOT gas the Jews.” –James von Brunn, (source)

“There is … no danger … that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade.” –Adolf Hitler, The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler*

“A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.” –Joseph Goebbels, (source)

“There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and the very devils in hell to hide their faces in shock and terror. You might say we owe them a Holocaust. We’ve been paying their bill for fifty years, and at some point we’re finally going to get what we’ve paid for.” –Harold Covington, Why I Believe in Jewish Ritual Murder

“These fucking Jews are thieves, they are liars, they are mother-fuckers, and it’s time we took care of these bastards.” –Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, Transcript of a Live Radio Interview

“Because of their emotional and impressionable natures women are a complete pushover for Jews to manipulate, so it is in the Jewish interest to deliver as much power to them as possible.” –Simon Sheppard, What Jews Do

“[T]he entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman’s right to be a woman.” –Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger (pp.202-203)

“[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today’s ‘distractions’ and ‘amusements’ does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life.” –Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger (pp.203-204)

“By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men’s attention.” –Georges Bataille, Eroticism

“[W]omen remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.” –Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women

“I don’t think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They’re more of a pamphlet sex.” –Alex Linder, vnnforum.com

“Why be with a woman who thinks of you as an oppressor but treats you like a servant?” –Thomas Ellis, The Rantings of a Single Male

“Women’s history is not about history. It’s about women’s obsession with gender roles.” –Thomas Ellis, The Rantings of a Single Male

“Rape accusations are about power. Broadening the definition of rape is about power. The cultivation of rape hysteria into a culture is about power.” –Thomas Ellis, The Rantings of a Single Male

“Why are women so threatened by porn? I believe it’s because women lose power when they can no longer hold men in a state of sexual deprivation.” –Thomas Ellis, The Rantings of a Single Male

“Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I’ll buy it.” –Jim Goad, Answer Me!

“I don’t hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.” –Norman Mailer, quoted in Wikipedia article

“Women are like lawn darts. All the good ones were made in the 50’s.” –Dick Masterson, Women Hate America

“Lesbianism is merely another way for women to act like cunts.” –Weevil Shrimpsteen, What’s With All the Lesbians?

“[W]hile homosexuals vehemently reject being considered mentally ill, they have no problems regarding those who dislike homosexuality as mentally ill.” –homosexinfo.org, Homophobia

“Opposition to some demands of homosexuals need not necessarily follow from the hatred of homosexuals. Likewise, someone may find homosexual behaviors disgusting but not oppose several demands of homosexuals out of a sense of justice or fairness.” –homosexinfo.org, Homophobia

“A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.” –Don Feder, A Jewish Conservative Looks At Pagan America

“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard ‘having children’ as a question of pro’s and con’s, the great turning point has come.” –Oswald Spengler, quoted in The Return of Patriarchy

“The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.” –Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“Pride in one’s own race — and that does not imply contempt for other races — is … a normal and healthy sentiment.” –Adolf Hitler, The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler*

“The concept of envy — the hatred of the superior — has dropped out of our moral vocabulary … The idea that white Christian civilization is hated more for its virtues than its sins doesn’t occur to us, because it’s not a nice idea. [...] Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared. The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And, superiority excites envy. Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.” –Joseph Sobran, Sobran’s (April 1997)

“In a world of necessary biological inequality, equality can only be enforced by inhibiting the free functioning of the higher species. One law for the lion and the ox is oppression; and if you put the lion in a cage and give the ox its liberty the ox becomes the functional superior of the lion.” –Anthony Jacob, White Man, Think Again! (p.327)

“Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.” –Aristotle, quoted in Traditionalist’s Anthology (p.117)

“Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.” –Oswald Spengler, quoted in the novel Serpent’s Walk (p.126)

“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” –Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“Life does not forgive weakness.” –Adolf Hitler, The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler*

“All life is a striving after power, and power extends only so far as the point where it meets with effective resistance.” –Anthony Ludovici, quoted in The prophet of anti-feminism

“Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.” –Ted Kaczynski (from an interview posted on usenet 05-04-23)

“There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.” –Ted Kaczynski (from an interview posted on usenet 05-04-23)

“Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.” –John F. Kennedy, quoted in Final Solution to the Washington Question

“Pick a side before a side picks you.” –Mysterion, usenet signature

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” –George Orwell

“In a corrupt society, the truth can be found in what is forbidden to say.” –author unknown

“Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it’s always better than doublespeak.” –Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto

“Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.” –author unknown

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” –Arthur Schopenhauer

“The sin of nearly all left wingers from 1933 onwards is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being anti-totalitarian.” –George Orwell, Arthur Koestler

“[Leftists] live [in] a fantasy-life and then complain that reality doesn’t fit in.” –Fred Middleton, http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3582

“American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.” –Revilo P. Oliver, America’s Decline

“Masculine republics decline into feminine democracies and democracies into despotism.” –Aristotle, quoted in Bulletproof Privacy

“La monarchie dégénère ordinairement dans le despotisme d’un seul; l’aristocratie dans le despotisme de plusieurs; la démocratie dans le despotisme du peuple.” (Monarchies ordinarily degenerate into the despotism of one; aristocracies into the despotism of the few; and democracies into the despotism of the people.) –Charles de Montesquieu, (source)

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” –Thomas Jefferson

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” –Winston Churchill, (source)

“Nations are like leaves; they change color before they fall.” –author unknown

“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” –attributed to Aristotle

“Freedom is the right to live in one’s own homeland in accordance with the laws and traditions of one’s ancestors.” –Ernst Arndt, Catechism for the Teutonic Armyman (quoted in David Duke’s My Awakening, p.129)

“Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.” –Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage (quoted in Rudolph E. Kurz’s Feminism and the Church, p.92)

“California’s like a beautiful wild girl on heroin, who’s high as a kite, thinking she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying even if you show her the marks.” –The Motorcycle Boy, from the movie Rumble Fish (1983)

“San Francisco, America’s B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.” –Jim Goad, Bay Aryans

“Gold is the currency of kings; silver is the currency of gentlemen; barter is the currency of peasants, and debt is the currency of slaves.” –author unknown

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.” –author unknown

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” –Herbert Bayard Swope

“[A] person who worries about something he can do nothing about is an extraordinary fool.” –The ghost at the old temple, from Issai Chozanshi’s The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts (p.77)

“Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.” –Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

“Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profondeur, ils vous le donnent en longueur.” (What orators lack in depth, they make up for in length.) –Charles de Montesquieu, Mes Pensées

[dysgenic]

"In a time of universal deceit- telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

"If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them."
Ecllesiastes 5:8

"I'll always have a job...I'll just arrest innocent people."
Colin, The Departed

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Verbal, The Usual Suspects

"Am I asleep?"
Jack, Fight Club

"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look."
Jake, Revolver

"They were calling em' piss, but they weren't moving any units."
Tommy, Beautiful Girls

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A couple more people need etched into their memory banks.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

[Horn]

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson

[wildcard]

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

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