"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, 1800

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or the revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."

Charles Bradlaugh - (English reformer - 1890)

"Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasury go dressed in gold and purple."

Marcus Porcius Cato - (Roman Statesman - 190 B.C.)

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

Ronald Reagan

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

Winston Churchill

"Watching the world-wide growth of compulsory health insurance, I noticed something that seemed to be overlooked: that all modern dictators – Communist, fascist, or disguised – have at least one thing in common. They all believe in social security, especially in coercing people into governmentalized medicine."

Melchior Palyi (1892-1970)

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day: teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Lao Tzu

"The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave."

Ayn Rand

"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Janet Frame

"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity."

Henry Hazlitt

"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."

Rev. Martin Niemoeller (sent to Dachau, 1938)

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

W.E.B. Du Bois

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