“Arbitrary power has seldom… been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.” Lord Chesterfield, (1694-1773). Source Reference Lord Chesterfield Quote

“Usurpation, the exercise of power not granted, is not legitimized by repetition.” Raoul Berger, (1901-2000) Attorney, professor at Harvard University. Source Reference Raoul Berger Quote

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” Anne Bradstreet. Source Reference Anne Bradstreet Quote

“Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.” Quintus Tullius Cicero, (c.102-43 B.C.), Roman general; brother of Cicero the orator. Source Reference Quintus Tullius Cicero Quote

“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.” Justice William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: New York Times v. Unites States (Pentagon Papers). Source Reference Justice William O….

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” Thomas Sowell, (1930- ) Writer and economist. Source…

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” Milton Friedman, (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, “ultimate guru of the free-market system.” Source Reference Milton Friedman Quote

“Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego…

“So, the NYPD, Fire Department, Buildings Department, everyone has been instructed that if they see worship services going on, they will go to the officials of that congregation, they’ll inform them they need to stop the services and disperse. If…

“It must never be forgotten… that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.” Richard Henry Lee, (1732-1794) Founding Father. Source Reference Richard Henry Lee Quote

“Whatever the individual motives of the censors may be, censorship is a form of social control. It is a means of holding a society together, of arresting the flux which censors fear. And since the fear cannot be appeased, the…

“19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won…