'My country right or wrong' is like saying 'my mother drunk or sober'
G. K. Chesterton 

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt  , 1783

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke (1632-1704) 

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover  , 1944

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) 

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
Kierkegaard 

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976)