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Society and Government

by Profit Prophet | Mar 16, 2022 | Government, Happiness, Negatively, Patron, Produced, Punisher, Restraining, Society, Uniting, Vices, Wants, Wickedness

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a...

Popular Government

by Profit Prophet | Nov 27, 2021 | Acquiring, Govern, Government, Ignorance, Information, Knowledge, Popular, Power, Prologue, Tragedy

“A popular government, without popular information, or the mean of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power...

Cannot Stand

by Profit Prophet | Oct 12, 2021 | Cannot, Collapse, Energies, Exhausted, Government, Nation, Perfect, Rotten, Saved, Spirit, Stand, Tree, Will Not

“If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.” –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Patriotic Duty

by Profit Prophet | Aug 24, 2021 | Country, Duty, From, Government, Patriot, Protect

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Edward Abbey

Government Betrayal

by Profit Prophet | Jul 24, 2021 | Amassing, Becoming, Betrays, Exercise, Fight, Government, No Choice, Original, People, Power, Right, Self-Defense, Tyrannical, When

“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.” –Alexander Hamilton

Corrupt Government

by Profit Prophet | Jun 29, 2021 | Corrupt, Filled, Flock, Government, Liars, One, One Day, People, Tells, Truth

“The government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars, and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth.” –Unknown (misattributed to Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln)
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