Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

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

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. – Thomas Jefferson

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. – Thomas Jefferson

There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

War is the health of the State. – Randolph Bourne

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater

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

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus

Freedom and whisky gang thegither. – Robert Burns

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they get up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day. – Frank Sinatra