If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should all want bread.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)  , 1897

It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

It is not disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to despair.
Junius 

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.
Daniel Webster  , 1843

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

Live with yourself; get to know how poorly furnished you are.
Persius (34-62 A.D.) 

Man is free, but not if he does not believe it.
Giacamo Girlamo Cassanova de Seingalt 

Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot.
Henry Cabot Lodge  , advice to a novice politician