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  • Mark Twain
    "Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
    — Mark Twain


  • Malcolm X
    "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
    — Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)


  • Mahatma Gandhi
    "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
    — Mahatma Gandhi


  • Mark Twain
    "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
    — Mark Twain


  • Thomas Jefferson
    "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
    — Thomas Jefferson


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Stephen Colbert
    "If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it."
    — Stephen Colbert


  • John Steinbeck
    "All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
    — John Steinbeck


  • Ron Paul
    "One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government."
    — Ron Paul


  • Ron Paul
    "Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats."
    — Ron Paul


  • Thomas Jefferson
    "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
    — Thomas Jefferson


  • George Washington
    "A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
    — George Washington


  • H.L. Mencken
    "Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury."
    — H.L. Mencken


  • Edward R. Murrow
    "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
    — Edward R. Murrow


  • Pericles
    "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. "
    — Pericles


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Ezra Taft Benson
    "Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government."
    — Ezra Taft Benson (The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
    — George Santayana


  • Augustine of Hippo
    "...it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war."
    — Augustine of Hippo (The Political Writings, New Edition)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
    — Ronald Reagan


  • Ronald Reagan
    "We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "...someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Ronald Reagan
    "The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. We have no higher duty, no greater cause as humans. Life and the preservation of freedom to live it in dignity is what we are on this Earth to do. Everything we work to achieve must seek that end so that some day our prime ministers, our premiers, our presidents, and our general secretaries will talk not of war and peace, but only of peace."
    — Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)


  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
    — Dwight D. Eisenhower


  • "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
    — Louis D. Brandeis


  • "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government."
    — Cornelius Tacitus


  • George Washington
    "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."
    — George Washington (George Washington's Farewell Address)


  • Albert Einstein
    "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Mother Teresa
    "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "
    — Mother Teresa


  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    "Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
    — Martin Luther King Jr.


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "There was never a bad peace or a good war."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Thomas Jefferson
    "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none"
    — Thomas Jefferson


  • Patrick Henry
    "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
    — Patrick Henry


  • 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


  • Patrick Henry
    "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
    — Patrick Henry


  • Patrick Henry
    "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
    — Patrick Henry



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