“For more than six hundred years – that is, since the Magna Carta in 1215 – there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and…

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. Source Reference Abraham Lincoln…

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington, 1st President of the United States. Source Reference George Washington Quotes

“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. Source Reference Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed”…

“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: letter…

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, (1882-1945), 32nd US President….

“If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.” William Graham Sumner, (1840-1910) American academic and professor at Yale College. Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays,…

“What is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist. Source: Letters to Lucilius, 65 A.D. Source Reference Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote

“[The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone – the right most valued by civilized men.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis, (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice. Source Reference Justice Louis D. Brandeis Quote

“Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is…

“The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.” Mikhail A. Bakunin, (1814-1876) Source: Proposition Motivee, 1868. Source Reference Mikhail A. Bakunin Quote