“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” ~ Thomas Jefferson For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war. Notwithstanding his...
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters… officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.” ~ Heather Cox Richardson, historian You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the...
“He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness’ sake!” ~ “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” You’d better watch out – you’d better not pout – you’d better not cry – ‘cos I’m telling you why: this...
“Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference... The Thought Police would get him just the same... the arrests invariably happened at night... In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the...
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ~ William O. Douglas, dissenting in Osborn v. United States (1966) The government wants us to believe that we have nothing...
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where...
“Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberty....
