Monday, March 22, 2010

Quotes, In Light of Recent Events

The following is in honor of passing the 'healthcare' bill.

"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments
under pretense of public safety."

-- Daniel Webster
(1782-1852), US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.F9CC

"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain."
-- Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Butler.Quote.C66A

"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
-- Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator
Source: Mein Kampf, 1933
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Adolf.Hitler.Quote.0C27

Let us also remember that God is sovereign, EVEN when evil prevails.


Pro 21:1-3 ESV
(1) The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.
(2) Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.
(3) To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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