“A single expression, boldly conceived and uttered, will sometimes put a whole company into their proper feelings; and whole nations are acted upon in the same manner.” – Thomas Paine
“If in the first attempt to create a world of free men we have failed, we must try again. The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.” Friedrich Hayek
“It is not the law that takes freedom from us, but the laziness of our own minds, the unwillingness to think for ourselves and so resign, even momentarily, from the herd.” – Lewis Lapham
“Better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values–that all reality hinges on moral foundations, and that all reality has spiritual control.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Arbitrary arrest, state intimidation, and torture were the tactics of the tyrannical monarchs of eighteenth century Europe–tactics that the founders sought to banish from American soil forever.” – Naomi Wolf
“The separation of economic and political aims is an essential guaranty of individual freedom and it is consequently attacked by all collectivists.” – Friedrich Hayek
“Only when we come to see our country as both profiting from and trapped within the structures of an empire of its own making will it be possible for us to explain many elements of the world that otherwise perplex us.” – Chalmers Johnson
“I would rather face terrorists than lose my civil liberties.” – Jesse Ventura
“It is in a fascist shift that the truth is recategorized as being unseemly–destructively inflammatory.” – Naomi Wolf
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine
“Our plan is peace for ever.” – Thomas Paine
“A common interest of courts is forming against the common interest of man.” – Thomas Paine
“The contention that only the peculiar wickedness of the Germans has produced the Nazi system is likely to become the excuse for forcing on us the very institutions which have produced that wickedness.” – Friedrich Hayek
“There is existing in man, a mass sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave.” – Thomas Paine
“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword.” – Alexander Hamilton
“It is the empty things that are vast: things solid are most contracted and lie in little room.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
