"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense [against] foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."

-James Madison 

“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

H.L. Mencken

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini 

"My country is wherever liberty lives"

—Thomas Paine

"Most people still do not understand that the current crisis is not about saving capitalism; it’s about saving the welfare state-crony capitalist-fascist political economy in the US that can no longer pay its bills.

–Bill King, the King Report

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

–George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790

"Whenever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince."

–James Madison, 1788

"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

–James Madison letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822