Glenn Beck's Common Sense (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Glenn Beck: Author; faimous for his show on fox: the glen beck program
• YOU!!!: abolish the tax code....
• Obama: Our president
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• Roosevelt: president
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• Woodrow Wilson
• George W. Bush: past president

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• “The tax code that started in 1913 as fourteen pages now exceeds sixty-seven thousand.”

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• “The fastest way to be branded a danger, a militia member, or just plain crazy is to quote the words of our Founding Fathers.”

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• “Shortcuts have consequences.”

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• “The laws of common sense do not change according to scale. If it doesn't work in your own check book, it won't work in theirs.”

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• “To take rights away to defend them, or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.”

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• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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• You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

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• George Washington calls out from the past to remind us that government itself is usually the problem: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

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• Common sense tells us that a government that can provide everything is a government capable of taking everything.

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

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• When Americans say that socialism is a better system than capitalism they are essentially saying they prefer to be led and fed by the state than be free. They are saying, perhaps ignorantly, that they prefer increased state control over their personal decisions because having a cap on success is an appropriate price to pay for also having a cap on failure.

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• One of the hallmarks of Progressive thought is the concept of redistribution: the idea that your money and property are only yours if the State doesn’t determine that there is a higher or better use for it.

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• JOHN ADAMS: “The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” KARL MARX: “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

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• Our interest payment to service our $11,000,000,000,000 in debt now stands at about $26,000,000,000 ($26 billion). Per month. That’s over $300 billion a year that will be sent (likely overseas) to our creditors instead of being used to upgrade our schools, roads, or national defense. Common sense tells us that is unsustainable—a country that cannot educate or secure its population is a country that will not be around much longer.

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• Samuel Adams said that those who prefer the “tranquility of servitude” had best be prepared to “crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” That advice is as relevant today as it was back then. And so are his closing words: “May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

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• America
• England
• Great Britain
• Washington
• Europe
• United States
• France
• California
• Republic
• Philadelphia
• Mexico

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1. Glenn Beck (Author)

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• Dewey: 973.3

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• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political Doctrines › Conservatism
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › History & Theory
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › U.S.

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