“The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark…

“The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather…

“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man’s relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.” Clarence Manion, (1896-1979) American conservative…

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

“It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government’s…

“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” Justice William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Public Utilities Commission v Pollack, 1952. Source Reference Famous Justice William O. Douglas Quote

“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.” Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) 30th US President. Source: Speech, 1924. Source Reference Calvin Coolidge Quote

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.” Michel de Montaigne [Michel Eyquem De Montaigne], (1532-1592) French Renaissance scholar, philosopher, writer. Source Reference Michel de Montaigne Quote

“Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.” J. C. Watts, (1957- ) US Congressman from Oklahoma (R), former quarterback in the Canadian Football League. Source Reference J. C. Watts, Jr. Quote

“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.” William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: New York Times, 20 January 1980. Source Reference William…

“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.” Wendell L. Willkie, (1892-1944) Republican presidential candidate, 1940. Source Reference Wendell L. Willkie Quote

“Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.” Edmund Burke, (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker. Source Reference…