"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
Congressman Charles A.Lindbergh Sr. , 1913

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
John F. Kennedy, (Assassinated) speech at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

"Anyone who is willing to trade a little freedom for security, deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin

"But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, July 7, 1775

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
U.S. President James Madison

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Plato

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
Ronald Regan

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
Ronald Regan

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell