"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women)
to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"We are apt to close our eyes against a painful truth."
-- Patrick Henry
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed
is often the truth."
-- Jean de la Bruyère
"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."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
-- Howard Zinn
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped
in the flag and carrying the cross"
-- Sinclair Lewis
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction."
-- Blaise Pascal ~1650 AD
"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)
"When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be
in the guise of fighting a foreign foe."
-- James Madison
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in
times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-- Dante Alighieri
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