"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
-- George Washington

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin

“Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God."
--Thomas Jefferson

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
--James Madison

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
--Thomas Jefferson

“Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."
--John Adams

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. ... To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
--George Mason

“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts—not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
--Abraham Lincoln

“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
--Ronald Reagan

“I want to say one thing to the American people. I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people."
--William Jefferson Clinton

“I can you hear you. The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
--George W. Bush

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
--Barak Hussain Obama

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
--Barak Hussain Obama