Here's a collection of quotes that might come in handy in the coming 2 months here and elsewhere in the blogosphere. As Billy Glad says, we are in danger.

Recommend to keep it where people can find it for a couple of days, please.

He might like the quote from Sinclair Lewis in 1935 about Fascism.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison



'When the government fears the people it is a democracy....when the
people fear their government it is tyranny...' --- Thomas Jefferson



Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin





The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.– Thomas Jefferson



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



The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. – Herman Goering





I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly
for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. –
James Baldwin





Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire





The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be
hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be
propagated. – William Ellery Channing





"if there be one principle more deeply written than any other in the
mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with
conquest." -- Thomas Jefferson





Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. – Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio





Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible. ~ Sinclair Lewis 1935





"patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." - Samuel Johnson





"If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of
their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent
their fathers occupied." -Thomas Jefferson





"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy
so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." -J. Edgar Hoover, former
head of the FBI







BEWARE THE LEADER WHO BANGS THE DRUMS of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the
mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the
blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no
need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know ? For this is what
I have done. And I am Caesar."



-- Anonymous