"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson.

"If we have to act, we will take every precaution that is possible. We will plan carefully. We will act with the full power of the United States military. We will act with allies at our side and we will prevail." - George W.

"In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers." - August Babel 1870

"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer" - Henry Kissinger

"Ha ha ha. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!" - Chico Marx.

SEAGOON: ... Now what's this all about?
MORIARTY: It is the revolution -- everywhere there is an armed rising.
SEAGOON: Are you all in it?
MORIARTY: Right in it -- you see, the United Anti-Socialist Neo-Democratic Pro-Fascist Communist Party are fighting to overthrow the
Unilateral Democratic United Partisan Bellicose Pacifist Co-Belligerent Tory Labour Liberal Party.
SEAGOON: Whose side are you on?
MORIARTY: There are no sides -- we're all in this together-- "The Affair of the Lone Banana", The Goon Show, 1954

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear" - George Orwell

Just one more for Uncle Brian ... "Freedom and whiskey go together." - Robert Burns