"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom." Voltaire

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." Alexander Hamilton

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." Hamilton

"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate." Marquis de Lafayette

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy." Lafeyette

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." Alexis de Tocqueville

"He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave." Tocqueville

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” Doug Stanhope

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants " Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Jefferson

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.” Washington

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes." Franklin

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." James Madison

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." Madison

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Henry

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." Maxmillien Robespierre

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception." George Orwell

"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory." Julius Caesar

"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!" Pompey

"Revenge is a dish best served cold" Khan Noonien Singh

"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves." Rousseau

"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye." General Douglas MacArthur

"In war there is no substitute for victory." MacArthur


"You know what the Dalish say to their dogs? Take the Dread Wolf by the ear if he comes." Fen'Harel