“If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.” IfsMeanStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCitizensRight NowIdealsConstitutionDocumentsUnited States Of AmericaAllegianceOath Author:Scott Ritter
“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.” MenDoeStatesGovernmentNamesRightsTeachingDutyOughtCitizensGloryResourcesIndependenceDoctrineProtectedDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceCorresponding Author:Calvin Coolidge
“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” IfsTryingDoePlayHappensCareMillionsClearRightsSeeingEffectsSeriousCitizensPoliticianOrdinaryConcernCongressThings HappenOfficialsRelevantInvestigationDocumentsScandalSpyCiaNsaElected OfficialsOrdinary Citizens Author:Edward Snowden
“The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.” GovernmentReturnCitizensTaxesStatementsWelfareQuestioningDocumentsDecreeHumiliateTax Returns Author:Ronald Reagan
“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.” KnowsLongStatesReasonFactsGovernmentEnemyTechnologyStudyRecordsWrittenRevolutionCitizensProtectInternalsDocumentsClassification Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.” PeopleHardGovernmentActionWantedFatherHouseLibertyHellDesignCitizensLimitsNegativeConstitutionDemocratSenateFoundersDocumentsBentFoundingSlow DownLimited GovernmentCharterAnti Government Author:Rush Limbaugh