Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.

-Thomas Jefferson

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. -James Madison

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

– James Madison

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

– John Adams

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -George Washington

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! -Thomas Jefferson

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds – Samuel Adams

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

– James Madison

One man with courage is a majority.

– Thomas Jefferson

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

– Thomas Jefferson

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty – John Adams

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

– Thomas Jefferson

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

– Benjamin Franklin

When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

– Thomas Jefferson

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. -Samuel Adams

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

~ Henry Bolingbroke ~

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

~ Sir Winston Churchill ~

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~ Kemal Atat�rk ~

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.

~ John F. Kennedy ~

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

~ Thomas Paine ~

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

Freedom exists only with power.

~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller ~

the ballot is stronger than the bullet

-Abe Lincoln

these are the times that try men’s souls. the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink form the service of their own counrty; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

-Thomas Paine

timid men…prefer the calm of despotism to the boiseterous sea of liberty.

-Thomas Jefferson

I may not agree with your opinion sir, but i will defend to the death your right to say it

we [Americans] will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak with our own minds.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

the Union must be preserved.

-Andrew Jackson

give me liberty or give me death

-Patrick Henry

No taxation without represetation

join or die

— Albert Einstein

“As democracy is perfected, the office of

president represents, more and more closely,

the inner soul of the people. On some great and

glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach

their heart’s desire at last and the White House

will be adorned by a downright moron.”

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” –Bertrand Russell

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” –George Bernard Shaw

I regret that I have only one life to give for my country by Nathaniel Hale.

John F. Kennedy

Give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

patriotic in a different kind of way…..!