Thanks for your great work!
The quotes are quite refreshing. It would be nice though if you treated your links the way links at CAP are generally treated – Post an excerpt along with the link. A thread with nothing but links in it isn’t very informative.
Here are some more quotes, these from our presidents and other thinkers:
“But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.” Thomas Jefferson 1781
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington 1753
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities” – Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” – Greek Philosopher Plato 428-348 BC
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.” – Samuel Adams
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.” – Hugo Black American Lawyer & Politician 1886-1971
These come from an article here: http://www.point-spreads.com/content/view/2157/2/