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
3 comments:
just curious--where did you find the bumper sticker?
I 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?
The Paine is particular on point in what has been happening - thanks for finding and sharing these.
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