"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women)
to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"We are apt to close our eyes against a painful truth."
-- Patrick Henry
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed
is often the truth."
-- Jean de la Bruyère
"On the altar of God, I pledge undying hostility to any
government restrictions on the free minds of the people."
-- Thomas Jefferson - The favored quote at the highest point
in the Rotunda at the Jefferson Memorial.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists
in leading him from error to truth."
-- St. Thomas Aquinas
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
-- Howard Zinn
"The last time we mixed religion and politics - people
were burned at the stake."
-- netctr.com
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped
in the flag and carrying the cross"
-- Sinclair Lewis
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance."
-- Goethe
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction."
-- Blaise Pascal ~1650 AD
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process
he does not become a monster."
-- Nietzsche
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be
in the guise of fighting a foreign foe."
-- James Madison
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to
restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to
restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our
lives and interests."
-- Patrick Henry
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in
times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-- Dante Alighieri
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