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On Politics, Mahatma Ghandi, Ronald Reagan, James Madison, Lord Acton, Harry S Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Herbert, Noah Webster, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, Mark Twain, Alexis de Tocqueville, Albert Camus, Thomas Jefferson, US Senator Barry Goldwater, Ben Franklin, Frank Zappa, HL Mencken, Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Sowell, Patrick Henry, Mohamed, Quran

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  - Mahatma Ghandi
  
  
• Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem! "
  - Ronald Reagan
  
  
• [D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
  - James Madison Federalist No. 10
  
  
• Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
  -Lord Acton
  
  

• Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. "
  - Harry S Truman
  
  
• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity."
  - Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
  - Frank Herbert
  
  
• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
  - Noah Webster
  
  
• It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from his government. "
  - Thomas Paine
  
  
• ...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in People's mind...
  - Samuel Adams
  
  

• A Patriot is merely a rebel at the start. In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. "
  - Mark Twain
  
  
• "America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
  - Alexis de Tocqueville
  
  
• Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. "
  - Albert Camus
  
  
• We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
  - Thomas Jefferson to William Roscoe, 1820.
  
  
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms! "
  - President Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
  - US Senator Barry Goldwater
  16 July 1964, Republican National Convention, San Francisco, CA
  
  
• This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins."
  - Ben Franklin
  
  
• The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
  - Frank Zappa
  
  
• The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects, and what they thus lost they have never got back. "
  - HL Mencken
  
  
• Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. "
  - Holy Bible
  2 Corinthians 3:17
  
  
• Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."
  - Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. "
  - Thomas Paine
  
  
• I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. "
  - Abraham Lincoln
  After he enacted the first tax on income in the United States.
  
  

• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. "
  - Thomas Sowell
  
  
• Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
  Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of Hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
  Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature placed in our power. Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
  The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. "
  - Patrick Henry
  
  
• 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
  
  
• For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace. "
  - Mohamed, Quran (9:11)
  
  

 

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