“You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months’ time our disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets!” – Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben (One of the Valkyrie bomb plot leaders), August 7, 1944
"The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." – General Robert E. Lee
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; …
“Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth …
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." – James Bovard (1994)
"The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients." – Edmund Burke (1899)
“The people of Kansas have clearly expressed their sovereign will. It is my hope that upon further review, you will see their right to do so.” – Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, it a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
Harry: I’m sorry doctor, I can’t pay you, I haven’t got any money. Dr. Strong: Money is one of the first symbols that disappeared. Tell you what I could use though… Some ammunition if you can spare it, I have a .45 too you know… Harry: I only have a few, I can let you have four. Dr. Strong: Don’t short yourself now. Harry: That’s alright, The war’s over – we won. Dr. Strong: Well, ding, ding for us! – Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and Dr. Powell Strong (Willis Bouchey) bartering for medical services rendered in the movie, …
"A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it." – Colonel Jeff Cooper
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from …
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the …
“What the American public doesn’t know is what makes them the American public, all right?” – Dan Ackroyd as Ray Zalinsky, in the 1995 movie Tommy Boy
“Therefore do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years’ possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change (it is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against the tempest.)” – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." – General Douglas MacArthur
“I’m not here as an FBI Agent. I’m here to help you.” – Richard T. Jones as FBI Agent James Ellison, in Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles