http://www.fourwinds10.net 2013-05-22T07:25:56+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1369066076 "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth." --C.S. Lewis,   Irish writer text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1368720367 We have been betrayed by those we trusted. We have been robbed of our money and property. It happened because we trusted imperfect men to rule imperfect men; and we failed in our duty as watchdog, and SOVEREIGNS OVER OUR SERVANTS. IT HAPPENED BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN IGNORANT, APATHETIC AND EVEN STUPID.  ---Rod Remelin BY CHOICE AND CONSENT "A nation or world of people, who will not use their intelligence, are no better than animals that have no intelligence; such people are beasts of burden and steaks upon the table by choice and consent. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1368546113 "A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renunciation of aggression, but by the attainment of impunity"---St. Augustine Your Choices in the Political arena: Indeed, the plunder has become so common, and the plunderers so smug and self-confident, that their predations are taken for granted, and the thieves themselves treated with extraordinary deference! It is something akin to the Stockholm syndrome. You encounter the same mugger at the same spot every day, and eventually establish a sort of bizarre relationship with him----even, eventually, thanking him for not taking more. When you are given the opportunity to replace him with another mugger, you vote for the incumbent---sticking with the devil you know, unless his opponent offers to share more of his loot with you. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1368463152 It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.” — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11 - Speaking of the Jews text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1368233901 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1367941380 "This is a test to see if yur mission on earth is over.  If you are still alilve, it's not."  ---Sir Francis Bacon text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1366669101 "The purpose of MAI--type agreements is to remove virtually all barriers to investment by corporations. Foreign investors would be required to be treated the same as domestic investors... So while the MAI--and now its clones--would threaten nearly every public sector of national economies such as health care, education, and culture, government spending for the military weapons development and production, and direct support for weapons corporations are excluded from the liberalizing demands of such an agreement. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1366218214 History repeats itself "first as tragedy, then as farce" ---Karl Marx text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1365865889 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1365690264 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1365607731 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1365176989 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1364834299 "The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) **************** "It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit" -- Noel Coward ******************* "Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363964912 GOD GRANTS LIBERTY ONLY TO THOSE WHO LOVE IT, AND ARE ALWAYS READY TO GUARD AND DEFEND IT! --Webster ******* "HE WHO HAS NO INCLINATION TO LEARN MORE WILL BE VERY APT TO THINK THAT HE KNOWS ENOUGH." --Powell ******* YOU SHALL NEVER KNOW ENOUGH--UNTIL YOU KNOW ALL!  --Hatonn   text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363868343 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363705012 What men value in this world is not rights but privileges." --H.L. Mencken,  American journalist and essayist text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363621427 We say in this nation that we are looking for people with honesty, integrity, drive and dedication, and then when we find such people, we take them out and whip them." anonymous ********* "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error" -- United States Supreme Court decision in American Communications Association v. Douds text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363445972  "Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure."  ~Bob LeFevre. ***************** "If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." -- President Andrew Jackson   text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363189971 I have certain rules I live by.  My first rule:  I don't believe anything the government tells me.  Nothing.  Zero.  ---George Carlin text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1363114818 "Anyone who shirks the labors, sacrifices, and dangers that his people must undergo is a coward. But no less a coward and traitor is the man who betrays the principles of thought to material interests, who, for example, is willing to let the holders of power decide how much is two times two. To sacrifice intellectual integrity, love of truth, the laws and methods of thought to any other interest, even that of the fatherland, is treason. When in the battle of interests and slogans the truth, like the individual, is in danger of being devalued, disfigured, and trampled under foot, our one duty is to resist and to save the truth--or rather, the striving for truth--for that is our highest article of faith." - Hermann Hesse: Reflections; pg. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1362675098 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1362492660 Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~Robert Ingersoll~ text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1362419025 If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."  --Kurt Lewin,  German-American psychologist text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1362154042  "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men,"  --Abraham Lincoln *********  "In the beginning of a change the Patriot is a scare man - and brave - and hated - and scorned. When he succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."  --Mark Twain text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1361928193 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1361798762 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1361550331 The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ******* Guide my feet and hold me tight I need ten thousand angels Watching over me tonight. (Mindy M.) (Both quotes from:  http://community.qvc. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1361205927 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1360936170 "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."   ---Voltaire, French Philosopher ************** “We are discreet sheep; we watch which way the drove is going, and then we follow the drove". - Mark Twain   text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1360079531  ”Anything the government assumes they have a right to do to us, we should assume we have a right to do that to them.”(http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/ron-pauls-easy-solution-to-govt-whos.html)   --Rep. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1359815683 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1359387985 Jan. 28, 2013 "Any man [or woman in the United States] who thinks he [or she] can be happy and prosperous by letting the FederalGovernment take care of him [or her]    had better take a closer look at the [Native] American Indian."   ~ Henry Ford ~ text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1358445022 "Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money." -- Joseph Sobran ********* "Your children's children will live under communism.  You Americans are so gullible.  No, you won't accept Communism outright; but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism.  We won't have to fight you; WE'LL SO WEAKEN YOUR ECONOMY, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands"  ---Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1358353447 Jan. 16, 2013 Here are a few quotes from a very smart man. READ THE REST OF HIS QUOTES: http://villageundertaker.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/the-wisdom-of-dr-thomas-sowell/ text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1357926123 “It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains”—Patrick Henry ********* 'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.' ---  Bobby - age 7 (Wow!) ********* "The American political system is essentially a contract between the Republican and Democratic parties, enforced by federal and state two--party laws, all designed to guarantee the survival of both no matter how many people despise or ignore them." -- Richard Reeves text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1357745635 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1357391864 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1357143883 "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." ~Henry Ford ******* "I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people." -- Reginald McKenna, as Chairman of the Midland Bank, addressing stockholders in 1924.   text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1356798682 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1356371884 Dec. 24, 2012 "What history truly records is the inherent irresponsibility of all despotisms and the almost inevitable corruption of all forms of government that are not subject to the control of the people ..." -- Brazilian church statement text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1355848898 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1355099509 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1354989975 Dec. 8, 2012 http://www.zengardner.com/first-they-ignore-you/ text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1354807249 It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods." "--Margaret Fuller,    American journalist and women's rights activist text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1354149944 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1354124007 "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.": Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1354038729 Plato may have inadvertently summed up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2,500 years ago when he is thought to have declared: "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Faheem Younus, MD text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1353944356 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1353776226 One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect." --William Carlos Williams, American poet and physician text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/thoughts_to_ponder/news.php?q=1353347268 "The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them .