quotes

"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-- MarkTwain

"The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." Thomas Jefferson to Dr. James Currie, January 28, 1786

"nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807

"bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, August 1, 1816

"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
Thomas Jefferson to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, January 24, 1786

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
-- Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
-- George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
--George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
--George Washington