“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.” — Thomas Paine
“These are the times that try men’s souls... Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
— Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”, December 23rd, 1776
“If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.” — Thomas Sowell
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954