“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.” Carl Schurz, (1829-1906) German-born, US General, US Senator (MO), Founded the Liberal Republican movement. Source Reference Carl Schurz…

“Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.” Roger Allen, (1917-1963) 35th US President. Source Reference Roger Allen Quote

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy, (1917-1963) 35th…

“There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.” Charles Kingsley, (1819-1875) English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist. Source Reference Charles Kingsley…

“There’s a big move for change coming from the right that I think would be disastrous for our country. They want radical, pull-em-up-by-the-roots change, they want to have a constitutional convention to rewrite our Constitution to make it friendlier to…

“You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.” W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965). Source Reference W. Somerset Maugham Quote

“Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, “Seneca the Younger.” Source: Letters to Lucilius ,65 A.D. Source Reference Lucius Annaeus…

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees…

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?.” William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879) American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Source Reference William Lloyd Garrison Quote

“The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false…

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most…

“I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams,…