posted on Feb, 3 2004 @ 06:50 PM
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
By definition, a government has no conscience, sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
--Albert Camus
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of
resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it
--Woodrow Wilson
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
--Edward Abbey
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
--H. L. Mencken
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
--George Washington
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
--H. L. Mencken
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
--M. Russell Ballard
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
--Benjamin Franklin
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
--Frederick Douglass
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
--Voltaire
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
--Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it
into tyranny.
--Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
--Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government.
--Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
--Thomas Jefferson
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you
wouldn't be able to walk.
--Harry Browne
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your
country.
--Stephen T. Byington
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that
man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a
general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
-Ghandi
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
--Barry Goldwater
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of
oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
--Ulysses S. Grant
There comes a time when a moral man can�t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
--Martin Luther King Jr.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
--Thomas Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
--Thomas Paine
That government is best which governs least.
--Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
--Henry David Thoreau
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then
it costs
nothing to be a Patriot.
--Mark Twain
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal
mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then
it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's
counter-intelligence.
--Robert Anton Wilson
The United States ranks 13th on the Human Freedom Index. Twelve other countries are freer than the United States .
--United Nations