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Thought I might revive this, 'cause I ran across some good ones:
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
-Thomas Jefferson
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
-James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
- John Adams
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-George Washington
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
-Thomas Jefferson
(thought this one is somewhat appropriate for Cheney's Energy task force case. He does work for us, right? We do have a right to know who advices our public servants, right?)
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds
- Samuel Adams
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison
One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty
- John Adams
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.
- Thomas Jefferson
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
-Samuel Adams
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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