Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Mark Twain
All politics is based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
Louis Lamour, "The Walking Drum"