“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop, (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist. Source Reference Edmund Burke Quote

“People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous…” Edmund Burke, (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary…

“Wouldn’t it be great to have all of the churches full? You’ll have packed churches all over our country.” Donald Trump, United States president in an interview on March 24, 2020 on Fox News about the possibility of reopening the…

“The idea that political speech had to be protected at any cost dates to Colonial days, during which the press and the public were not allowed to express themselves freely on matters of public concern. The King and his government…

“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…