“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles…

“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) Leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. 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

“The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.” George Washington, (1732-1799)…

“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the…

“[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.”…

“The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.” Miller v. U.S., Source: 230 F 2d 486, 489. Source Reference Miller v. U.S. Quote