Some excellent quotes:
Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Sam Adams
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
Sam Adams
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Thomas Jefferson
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
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government.
Mark Twain
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Everett Dirksen
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
Frank Adams
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Winston Churchill
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)
Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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