The sole purpose of the government is to protect the people whom are it's masters.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." — Patrick Henry

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." — Arthur Schopenhauer

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." — Sir Winston Churchill

"We are apt to close our eyes against a painful truth." — Patrick Henry

"What would you do if you knew all the things we knew, would you stand up for truth or would you turn away too?" --Paris

"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth." — Jean de la Bruyère

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." — George Orwell

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." — Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth." — St. Thomas Aquinas

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." — Howard Zinn

"To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic." — Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)

"A Patriot is merely a rebel at the start. In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." — Mark Twain

"On the altar of God, I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people." — Thomas Jefferson - The favored quote at the highest point in the Rotunda at the Jefferson Memorial.

"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." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Patriotism is not loving your Government, A Patriot is one that loves their country and watches their Government." — netctr.com

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin

When asked what kind of a government the constitutional convention had given the people: "A republic, if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson

"If once (the people) become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." — Thomas Jefferson

"When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny." — Thomas Jefferson

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." — Thomas Paine

"Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers," — Dwight David Eisenhower

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist..." — Dwight David Eisenhower

"The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them." — Albert Einstein

"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor" (2000) — Project for a New American Century

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." — David Rockefeller

"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing." — Edmund Burke

"Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence." — Henri Frederic Amiel

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." — Dante Alighieri

"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." — Thomas Jefferson

"He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." — Thomas Jefferson

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -— General Douglas MacArthur

"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." — Henry Ford

"The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power." — Mussolini

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything." — Josef Stalin

"The last time we mixed religion and politics - people were burned at the stake." — netctr.com

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" — Sinclair Lewis

"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." -– Goethe

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." — netctr.com

"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." — Kurt Nimmo

"It is the nature of power that it attracts the very people who should not have it." — netctr.com

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." — Samuel Adams

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." — "The Declaration of Independence"

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." — Ian Williams Goddard