John

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
― James Madison

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson