"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell

"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people." - Frank Kent

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus

"Beware those that wholly believe in Biblical revelations, claim to be doing the work of God and also have the big red button to cause said annihilation while breaking at least half of the ten commandments." - netctr.com

"Let us believe no man infallible or impeccable in government, any more than in religion; take no man's word against evidence, nor implicitly adopt the sentiments of others who may be deceived themselves, or may be interested in deceiving us." - John Adams 1763

"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." - Aristotle

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken

"Facts are stubborn things, and can't be erased or banished from polite discussion on account of political correctness or, at least, not for very long." - Ronald Reagan

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby (Former CIA Director)

"The penalty good men suffer for not getting involved in public affairs is being ruled by evil men." - Plato

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." - Plato

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within." - James Madison

"When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign foe." - James Madison

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." - James Madison

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

"Corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people, until wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles (430 BC.)

"Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government." - Justice William O. Douglas (Laird v. Tatum, 1972)

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." - General Douglas MacArthur

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism, ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." - FDR