If Tyranny and Oppression Come to this Land, it Will be in the Guise of Fighting a Foreign Enemy -James Madison
They that can Give Up Essential Liberty to Obtain a Little Temporary Safety Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong. -Voltaire
When the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson
Unthinking Respect for Authority is the Greatest Enemy of Truth -Albert Einstein
A State of War Only Serves as an Excuse for Domestic Tyranny. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. -Thomas Paine
The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing. -Edmund Burke
just curious--where did you find the bumper sticker?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those guys felt like they were whispering into the wind when they said those things, the way us leftward political activists feel today? Or was there a ready audience for political philosophy when it wasn't in competition with TV and movies?
ReplyDeleteThe Paine is particular on point in what has been happening - thanks for finding and sharing these.
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