"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God".
Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety".
he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear".
Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, 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."
Thomas Jefferson
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil;
in its worst state, an intolerable one".
Thomas Paine
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest
political evil under our Constitution.
John Adams
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority
may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain
- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has
been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
Lysander Spooner
Edward Abbey
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free".
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolutely power corrupts absolutely
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat
"The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish".
Frederic Bastiat
"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held
that things are “just” because the law makes them so."
Frederic Bastiat
"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative
of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law".
Frederic Bastiat
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
Mahatma Gandhi
“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Mark Twain
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”
Daniel Webster
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