Signs of the Times  

  "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.  In both instances, there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged and it is in such a twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however, slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."                              Supreme Court Justice Wm. O. Douglas



    Ideas are more powerful than guns.  We would not let our enemies have guns--why should we let them have ideas?"
                                                                          Josef Stalin


      "When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold GRADUALLY to the masses over generations, the TRUTH will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
                                                                                         Dresden James


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


     "If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
                                                                          Anatole France


     "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
                                                                       A. Hitler


     "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
                                                                                                Voltaire

    "It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before."                       Anonymous



     "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.  When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."                          Edward R. Murrow


     "I believe the banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."                                                        Thomas Jefferson


     "In a developed society, the seizure of political power is not possible until after the seizure of cultural power."
                                                            Antonio Gramschi (Comm. leader)

      "Revolutions are effected in two ways -- by force and by fraud."  
                                                                        Aristotle