"There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange." ~Daniel
Webster

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." ~Thomas Jefferson

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." ~ John 8:32, The Holy Bible

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Secondly, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.” ~ Plato

"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~ Goethe

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

'"Freedom is not free" ~ Unknown

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams

"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?" ~ Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, March 23, 1775

"Knowledge is power." ~ Francis Bacon

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous that he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover

"Never doubt that a small group of committed, thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead, American anthropologist

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force like fire is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." ~ George Washington

“. . . the most reliable way to distinguish between lightworkers and darkworkers is
to focus my attention on the affect which they display rather than on the labels which they carry.” ~ Allisone Heartsong

"The conventions of a number of the states, having at the time of their adopting
the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse
of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the government, will best insure
the beneficent ends of its institution.” Preamble to the Bill of Rights

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ~ Lord Acton

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” ~ George Washington

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." ~ Hosea 4:6, The Holy Bible

"Follow the money" ~ Unknown

"Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence
of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most
successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but
the one that removes awareness of other possibilities." ~ The Closing of the American Mind, by Alan Bloom