Timely quotes…
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. -Thomas Paine.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. -J. William Fulbright.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. - Plato.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain.
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