Edmund Burke

"Criminal means, once tolerated are soon preferred...The moment one capitulates to the idea that mayhem and murder are justified for the greater good, the greater good is forgotten, and mayhem and murder become ends in themselves, until only violence can satiate their insatiable appetites."

--Edmund Burke

George Washington

"[T]he crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.

--George Washington (1774)

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Noah Webster

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."

--Noah Webster,
On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

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George Washington

"[T]he crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.

--George Washington (1774)

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James Madison

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

--James Madison

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G. Gordon Liddy

"When I was a kid, this was a free country."

--G. Gordon Liddy.
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Samuel Adams

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."

--Samuel Adams (1781)

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George Washington

"We should never despair, our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times."

--George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

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Thomas Jefferson

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."

--Thomas Jefferson

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Flannery O’Connor

"You have to push as hard as the age that pushes against you." 

Flannery O'Connor
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George Washington

"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity."

--George Washington, letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham, 1790

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