RELEVANT QUOTATIONS

TONY BLAIR (British Prime Minister 1997-2007)
We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people… What the electorate gives, the electorate can take away. (1997).
Quite true. Especially the warning at the end! It applies to all Parties, the Government, Parliament and the EU.

DAVID CAMERON (On entering 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister, 11 May 2010)
One of the tasks we……have is to rebuild trust in our political system…Yes, it is about making sure people are in control! And that the politicians are always their servants. And never their masters!
Sir, you quote this Charter! To get trust, first trust us! Set our supremacy unambiguously in law and Parliament second. Then, we believe you! We agree those in government are not masters. Most certainly, leaders of the EU are not!

WOODROW WILSON (U.S. President 1913-21)
Liberty has never come from the government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it. (1912)
Nothing comes from government, without having been taken from us first. The history of the last century and this is the history of the increase of government power. Government needs limitation, lasting reduction and democratic control.

People and provinces must not be bartered about from sovereign to sovereign as if they were chattels, or pawns in a game. Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. (1918)
EU bartering was done by Ministers for decades, purposely without a mandate from the People. Now MPs are in peril.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (U.S. President 1933-45)
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. (1938)
Today we detect the first phrase as self-serving. Note the words sovereign control. Note also that we are to maintain it.

EDMUND BURKE (Member of Parliament, political philosopher)
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (1784)
The EU delusion has been fed by elected politicians, showing that the House of Commons cannot again be fully trusted.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (U.S. President 1860-65)
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. (1848)
This ‘right’ is not found in the EU Charter of Fundamental Human Rights. For, the EU is a slow-motion coup d’état.

RAMSEY CLARK (ex- U.S. Attorney-General)
A right is not what someone gives you: it’s what no one can take from you.
Why? Because it is innate. All government is composed of lent powers, resources and rights, borrowed from the People.

TONY BENN (English parliamentarian, ex-Cabinet Minister, 1925- )
What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you?
Questions asked by him as an MP, when meeting someone in power. Now, it is Electors who need to use such questions.

PAUL VALERY (French philosopher 1871-1945)
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

WILLIAM PITT (British Prime Minister 1783-1801 & 1804-6)
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail- its roof may shake- the wind may blow through it- the storm may enter- the rain may enter- but the King of England cannot enter. (1763)
EU police can remove him to any EU jurisdiction without proven justification in a British court or habeus corpus. So much for Parliament as the guardian of our liberties! It is the unashamed betrayer of them.

JOHN SELDEN (English jurist 1584-1654)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. (1689)
This most convenient argument has led to unlimited law production, loss of effective leverage over Parliament, indirect disenfranchisement by the EU, and a political correctness culture. No man knows if he is ever wholly within the law or outside it! EU legislation is around 90,000 pages, so far. Citizens need to command a drastic simplification of law.

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70)
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained throughout all its narrow turnings. (1852)
Dickens could have been talking also of EU law, that extends power for itself.

My faith in the people governing us is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the People governed is, on the whole, illimitable.(1869)

A.J.P.TAYLOR (English historian 1906-90)
[A]ll change in history, all advance, comes from the non-conformist. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. (1957)

BERNARD MALAMUD (American novelist 1914-86)
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go- if there are no doors or windows –he walks through a wall. (1973)
Likewise for a nation, an electorate, any responsible people anywhere, in time of testing, who are free in their hearts.

MARGARET READ (English anthropologist 1901-78)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

ERNEST BARKER (English political philosopher 1874-1960)
Sovereignty is unlimited- unlimited and illimitable. (1951)
It resides in the People by birth and political inheritance. It is neither the property of Parliament by presumed transfer, nor of the EU, in any part of it, by public or secret removal. Parallel Democracy opens this “unlimited and illimitable” character of sovereignty for practical use by the People. And it guards it from parliaments, governments and lobbyists.

EDWARD R. MURROW (American journalist, 1908-65)
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

EVGENY MOROZOV
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner. (on Twitter, Nov 28th via web re-tweeted by 100+ people)
Sounds good for political health! If the People are forced to undergo intimate examination regularly, for tax or if flying, politicians and governments need to be examined as closely, and regularly too! Parallel Democracy is the equipment.

The above quotations, discovered after writing, were checked mostly in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations.

THOMAS JEFFERSON: If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. [And not just the American People!]

In 1828, Mayer Amschel Rothschild expressed contempt for governments attempting to regulate international bankers such as him: “Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws.”

Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England in the 1920s: “Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them the power to create deposits, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again.

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