“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s only that our social relations, while vital to…

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.” George Savile, (1633-1695) 1st Marquess of…

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, ‘Father of the Country.’ Source Reference George Washington Quote

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi, (1869-1948). Source Reference Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Quote

“The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.” Mike Godwin, staff counsel, Electronic Freedom Foundation. Source Reference Mike Godwin Quote

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their…

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams, (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814. Source…

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

“The legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged ‘good’ can justify it – there can…

“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source Reference John Locke Quote

“If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook,…