"We...would rather die on our feet than live on our knees"...Franklin D. Roosevelt: Third Inaugural, January 20, 1941.****"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"...W. Somerset Maugham.****"Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor, imbecility"...William Godwin: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1793.****"Some have said it is not the business of private men to meddle with government: a bold, false, and dishonest saying which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave"...Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard: Cato's Letters, Vol. ii, No. 38, 1724.****"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence"...ELBERT HUBBARD: The Philistine, vol. 20.****"It is lamentable that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind"...VOLTAIRE: Philosophical Dictionary, London edition, 1824.****"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism"...GEORGE WASHINGTON: Farewell Address to the People of the United States, September, 1796.