"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, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--President Theodore Roosevelt
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"The worst danger of criminality is that it serves as a pretext that leads to totalitarianism"
-- Hon.Maria Lucia Karam, Brazilian judge
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"As terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution."
-- Hon. Rosemary Pooler, United States Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
-- Susan B. Anthony