“There’s a big move for change coming from the right that I think would be disastrous for our country. They want radical, pull-em-up-by-the-roots change, they want to have a constitutional convention to rewrite our Constitution to make it friendlier to…

“You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.” W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965). Source Reference W. Somerset Maugham Quote

“Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, “Seneca the Younger.” Source: Letters to Lucilius ,65 A.D. Source Reference Lucius Annaeus…

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees…

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?.” William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879) American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Source Reference William Lloyd Garrison Quote

“The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false…

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most…

“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.” James A. Garfield, (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881), assassinated. Source Reference James A. Garfield Quote

“Everyone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.” United Nations, Source: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19, 1948. Source Reference United Nations Quote

“The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too…

“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, (121 AD -180 AD) Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD. Source: Meditations, Book III, 5  (c.161-180 AD). Source Reference Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quote

“Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice.” Ronald Reagan, Source:  National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982. Source Reference Ronald Reagan Quote