July 4 — 250 Years — Memes & Quotes

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin quoted in Hayek, Friedrich A., The Road to Serfdom,  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972.[Originally published in Britain in 1944], p. 133.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

—Frederick Douglass quoted in Plummer, Joseph. Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy, Kindle Edition, p. 100.

The uniqueness of America is that here for the first time common people could and did make history.

— Eric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront,Perennial Library, Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1970, p. 96.

…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

– George Eliot (1819-1880), Middlemarch

the time for “american shame” and the self-hatred of presuming that american exceptionalism is something over which one need be apologetic or for which one must make restitution is over.

we have valorized vandalism and created amoral systems of the low trust low ethics of low people.

we need to remember who we are and stop falling for all this critical theory claptrap that makes the best of our societal substrate out to be the problem.

wanting america does not make you a bad person.

it makes you a part of the best of humanity’s dreams.

and sometimes dreams need to stand up for themselves.

— el gato malo, the american order

The Genius or Destiny of America is . . . a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial’s face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is marked. . . . Let us realize that this country, the last found, is the great charity of God to the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in, Bercovitch, Sacvan, The Puritan Origins of the American Self, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1975, p. 158.

It’s time to say “enough,” and teach our children to take pride in their own heritage. To know that they have a culture and a history of which they can and should be grateful; that they are not the children and grandchildren of oppressors and villains; and that their homes and families are worth defending against those who want to take them away, and are willing to kill to do so.

Call it a Crusade.

Robert Spencer. Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), Kindle edition, p. 232.

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom.  As such it is by no means infallible or certain.  Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies—and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.

— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom,  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972.[Originally published in Britain in 1944], p. 70.

The bottom line is that it is not racist or even ethnocentric, to object passionately to the “invasion” of the United States, or any Western country (or any country), by illegal immigrants. When you import people in large groups, you also import their cultures. We need to face the fact that the freedom, rule of law, relative peaceableness, and high level of civil society functioning, of Western nations, is an incredible achievement and an incredible gift.

— Naomi Wolf, “President Trump’s New York,” March 22, 2025, Outspoken with Dr. Naomi Wolff, Source

We’re not dealing with a load of social democrats who just want to raise taxes a bit and spend more on public spending. We’re dealing with people who want to destroy Western civilization. This is what their aims are.

— Liz Truss, Former Prime Minister of the U.K., Wall Street Apes on X (@WallStreetApes)

A civilisation need not be conquered with guns and bombs when it can be persuaded to view its own continuation as a kind of embarrassing mistake. No armies required. No decrees. Just enough propaganda to make continuation look vaguely oppressive, fatherhood vaguely optional, children vaguely inconvenient, and the future vaguely unethical.

— T. W. Burrows, Mother’s Day at the Ministry of Regret

It is not accidental that white men were singled out by the victim cultists as the focus of their opprobrium. The victim cult’s entire purpose is to take Western civilization away from the men who built it, destroy that civilization, and then wipe out the people who built it.

— John Carter, DEI, the Dispossessed Generation, and the Digital Koryos, Postcards from Barsoom

One asks: What is driving these interesting times? One thing is the destruction of Western civilization. This is complicated more by the willing suicide of Western nations, not by their people, but by their politicians. This is the most treasonous, self-immolating generation of politicians ever to see the light of day in the Western world.

— T.L. Davis, Interesting Times

Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions, with different everything.

— Donald J. Trump, 2025 speech at the U.N., Source

Therefore in this last hour every individual must arm himself as best he can, aware of his responsibility as a member of the Christian and western civilization. He must work against the hostage of humanity, against fascism and all similar systems of an absolute State. Offer passive resistance—resistance, wherever you may be, prevent the continuation of this atheistic war machine before it is too late…

— White Rose leaflet, Germany, June 1942, Letter to the German Bundestag

“Freedom is not something you get as a present,” said Pietro. “You can live in a dictatorship and be free—on one condition: that you fight the dictatorship. The man who thinks with his own mind and keeps it uncorrupted is free. The man who fights for what he thinks is right is free. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you’re lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you’re not free. Even without any violent coercion, you’re a slave. You can’t beg your freedom from someone. You have to seize it—everyone as much as he can.”

— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

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