“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, ‘Father of the Country’ Source: attributed. Source Reference George Washington Quote

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, [Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás] (1863-1952) Spanish-born philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Source: “Reason from Common Sense”, 1905. Source Reference Famous George Santayana Quote

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Thomas Paine, (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author. Source Reference Thomas Paine Quote

“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell, [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author. Source Reference George Orwell Quote

“To render the magistrate a judge of truth, and engage his authority in the suppression of opinions, shews an inattention to the nature and designs of political liberty.” Robert Hall, (1764-1831) English Baptist minister. Source: An Apology for the Liberty…

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from…

“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US…

“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st…

“Give me control over a man’s economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I’ll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.”…

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker, (1944-) American novelist, author. Source Reference Alice Walker Quote

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton, Writer. Source: “Cutting Loose,” by Sally Kempton. Esquire, July 1970. Source Reference Sally Kempton Quote