"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master." -George Washington
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thomas Jefferson
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
"Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded." -Karl Marx
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." -Adolf Hitler
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -Harriet Tubman
"Listen to everyone, read everything, believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research." -William "Bill" Cooper
"Don't be afraid to see what you see." -Ronald Reagan
"A nation of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves." -Bertrand de Jouvenel
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin
"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." -William M. "Boss" Tweed
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -David Rockefeller
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." -James Warburg, Council on Foreign Relations
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it." -Emily Dickinson
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Winston Churchill
"The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -Ayn Rand
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." -Niccolo Machiavelli
"I don't believe people should be able to own guns." -Barack Obama
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher
"Those who have been intoxicated with power ... can never willingly abandon it." -Edmund Burke
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -H. L. Mencken
"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act." -The Talmud
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them." -Clare Boothe Luce
"A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come." -Ron Paul
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government." -Alexander Hamilton
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace." -Thomas Paine
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." -Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
"As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people." -Bill Hicks
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt