"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another." -- Richard Nixon

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British writer

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
- Alexis Charles Henri Cl�rel de Tocqueville

"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."
- Pythagorus

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Socrates

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government." -Thomas Paine