“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.” WellsHardGovernmentTodayLyingLibertyTeachOur LivesSecurityLessonsPropertyThreatForgottenWell BeingAncestorRulers Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.” HumansReasonLyingSocialBehaviorElementsEthicsCapacityRootsResponsePatternsAcceptedAncestorMammals Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.” LyingSacredLiarsAncestorHighlander Author:Gladys Mitchell