Rev. Benjamin Cremer

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God’s wrath but never a source of God’s mercy, generosity, or compassion.

Those people are so tangled up in mental health issues and propaganda that they don't know up from down. You'd think reading the Bible would bring them some peace... but that's the thing about books, you have to read them.

Howard Zinn, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991)

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

Voltaire

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

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