“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”— CS Lewis

“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” — Thomas Paine

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F Kennedy

“When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . .

Come you masters of war/You that build the big guns You that build the death planes/You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls/You that hide behind desks I just want you to know/I can see through your masks…. You fasten all the triggers/For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch/When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion/While the young people's blood Flows out of their bodies/And is buried in the mud. — Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”

“What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence of a new kind of tyranny. The choice is ours.” — John Pilger, investigative journalist

“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall.

Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this...

Mommy, am I gonna die?” — 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches  

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.” — John Lennon (1969)

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