“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

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Quintus Tullius Cicero, (1959-) Mayor of Chicago, Chicago’s first Jewish mayor. Source:…

“During war, the laws are silent.” Quintus Tullius Cicero, (c.102-43 B.C.), Roman general; brother of Cicero the orator. Source Reference Quintus Tullius Cicero 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…

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us.” Steven R. Covey, (1932-2012) American educator, author, businessman, speaker. Source Reference Steven R. Covey Quote

“To freemen, threats are impotent.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator. Source Reference Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote

“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: An Almanac of Liberty, 1954. Source…

“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…

“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” George Mason, (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington. Source: Virginia…