Text: "Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there is no poverty to be seen because the poverty has been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they willbe completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces." ­ Jean Paul Marat, 18th Century French Visionary The history of liberty is the history of resistance. -President Woodrow Wilson The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. -President James Madison Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. -President Harry S. Truman Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. -President Thomas Jefferson Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. -President Theodore Roosevelt Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from evolutionist and rebel men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. -President Dwight Eisenhower We need not fear the expression of ideas; we do need to fear their suppression. -President Harry Truman Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. -President John F. Kennedy When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master. -President Thomas Jefferson The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. -President George Washington All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. -President James Madison To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, it is morally treasonable to the American public. -President Theodore Roosevelt

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