Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

We the people are the rightful masters of Congress and the courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

Unless the people, through united action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish ambitions.

Calvin Coolidge (October 1932

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Abraham Lincoln

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles (430 BC)

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter FOR government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection AGAINST the government.

Ayn Rand

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their constitutional right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 (And, I would add, they will have neither as others will take both from them to make them their slaves)

Benjamin Franklin

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires to people's minds.

Samuel Adams