"Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither."
-Benjamin Franklin
"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine
"There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies"
-Rabbi Israel Salanter
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-Thomas Jefferson
"My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober"
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
