shop notes : WINTER 2006

Important reminders:

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”  
- Ronald Reagan

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”  
- Dwight Eisenhower

“Naturally, the common people don’t want war...but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatoráship.  Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.  It works the same in every country.”  
- Herman Goering

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”  
- Theodore Roosevelt

 “War is Peace.  Freedom is Slavery.  Ignorance is Strength.”
 - Big Brother (from George Orwell’s 1984)

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”  
- Constitution of the United States, First Amendment

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  
- Benjamin Franklin

“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial?  What have been its fruits?  More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”  
- James Madison (“Father of the Constitution”)

“Blessed are the peacemakers...”  
- Jesus

“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you.  Go on anyway.  Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”  
- Robert Henri