“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John Adams, (1735-1826)…

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” Oscar Ameringer, (1870-1943). German-American Socialist editor, author, and organizer. Source Reference Oscar Ameringer Quote

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist. Source: The Biglow Papers, II, 1862. Source Reference James Russell Lowell Quote

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil  to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. Source: Walden (1854). Source Reference…

“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.” John Adams, (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: Novanglus Letters, 1774. Source Reference John Adams Quote

“It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” Bruce Schneier, Source: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, 2000. Source Reference Bruce Schneier Quote

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars: the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic. Source Reference…

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.” Charles De Gaulle, (1890-1970) French president and military leader. Source Reference Charles De Gaulle Quote

“The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it…

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified?  Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at…

“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet Source: “Boston” Stanza 15. Source Reference Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end…