“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.” – Clarence Darrow

“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” – Voltaire

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Ben Franklin

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain

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

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” – Henry David Thoreau (espousing Civil Disobedience)

“Loving your country does not always mean loving your government. Sometimes, it’s quite the opposite.” – Anonymous

Artemus Ward 1834-1867

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell 1819-1891

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain 1835-1910

Isaac Watts – English Non-conformist Minister

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