* When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs!

* When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.

* When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun!

* Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it.

"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."

-Adolph Hitler

"Mistrust those in whom the impulse to punish is strong."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas