“Farce, gross incompetence, and tragedy is the hallmark of big centralized government, wherever it develops. Big centralized government has developed in the United States year after year since the 1930s, and it has both solidified and metastasized since 9-11. Today,…

“It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume…that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt…

“Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of…

“Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.” Otis Chandler, (1927-2006) Publisher of the Los…

“You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.” Alan Paton, (1903-1988) South African author, anti-apartheid activist. Source Reference Alan Paton Quote

“Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.” Samuel Cooke, (1709-1783) Pastor of the Second…

“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” Dorothy Thompson, (1894-1961). Source: Ladies Home Journal, May 1958. Source Reference Dorothy Thompson Quote

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. – From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness…

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864) American writer. Source Reference Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” Jim Stovall, (1958-) American writer, blind. Source Reference Jim Stovall Quote

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.” Henry Clay, (1777-1852) U. S. Senator, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Source Reference Henry Clay Quote

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” Abraham Lincoln, David Brin (1950- ) Author. Source Reference David Brin Quote