Benjamin Franklin
“They who would give up an essential liberty for
temporary security, deserve neither liberty or
security”

Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those
who do evil, but because of those who look on and do
nothing….

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves
the individual by terror and force, whether it arises
under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is
valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity
for development accorded….

Martin Luther King, jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
things that matter....

An individual has not started living until he can rise
above the narrow confines of his individualistic
concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity....

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is
the presence of justice....

In the end, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends...

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy....

Dwight Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not...


Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or
softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not
have to be cruel to be tough....

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a
government strong enough to protect the interests of
the people, and a people strong enough and well enough
informed to maintain its sovereign control over the
government....

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will
revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me
assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to
fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified
terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance.

Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the
president, or that we are to stand by the president,
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public.
(1918)...

Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes
cowards of men....

Character is like a tree and reputation like its
shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is
the real thing....

The United States government must not undertake to run
the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out
of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he
must be checked....

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never
have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is
superior to capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration....

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the
family relation should be one uniting working people
of all nations and tongues and kindreds....

Patrick Henry
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty, or give...

Thomas Jefferson
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state
or persuasion, religious or political; peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations,?entangling alliances with none; the support
of the State governments in all their rights, as the
most competent...

John F. Kennedy
Without debate, without criticism, no administration
and no country can succeed -- and no republic can
survive...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with
unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies,
and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to
let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an
open market is a...

Robert F. Kennedy
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and
we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an
inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is
not white? What then is our response?

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself;
but each of us can work to change a small portion of
events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written the history of this generation....

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let
him say he would willingly change the color of his
skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large
city. Then and only then has he a right to such a
claim.

Voltaire
So long as the people do not care to exercise their
freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for
tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote
themselves in the name of any number of gods,
religious and...

Barry Goldwater
On religious issues there can be little or no
compromise. There is no position on which people are
so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no
more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls
this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the
use of God's name on one's behalf should be used
sparingly. The religious factions that are growing
throughout our land are not using their religious
clout with wisdom. They are trying to force
government leaders into following their position 100
percent. If you disagree with these religious groups
on a particular moral issue, they complain, they
threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers
across this country telling me as a citizen that if I
want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C,
and D. Just who do they think they are? And from
where do they presume to claim the right to dictate
their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry
as a legislator who must endure the threats of every
religious group who thinks it has some God-granted
right to control my vote on every roll call in the
Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them
every step of the way if they try to dictate their
moral convictions to all Americans in the name of
conservatism.' ~Barry Goldwater








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