"A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed."...... Sam Adams of the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence, Boston, Massachusetts, 1771

"...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds..." .....................Mark Laythorpe (until proven otherwise :-))

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."........Mark Twain

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.".........Thomas Jefferson

"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society."........J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.".....Thomas Jefferson

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."...George Bernard Shaw.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."........Benjamin Franklin

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."...........THE PRISONER

"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." ............Morpheus

"No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." ..........................................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."..........Samuel Adams

"When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic."........Anonymous

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and thus clamorous to be led to safety), by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."...H.L. Mencken

"You're brought up learning that drugs make you crazy, then you do marijuana for the first time, and it's not so bad. It's kind of cool. That's when kids find out it's been a lie." .............................New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson 10/4/99

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." ............................Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ....................................................George Santayana