Patrick

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason.”
― Frederick Douglass, Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass:

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
― Albert Camus