• Congress has been a burial ground for virtually every good reform proposed in modern times. I prefer the alternate method provided by Article V, a Constitutional Convention, and I make the argument for a Convention to be held . . . - Larry Sabato (5-Dec-2007)
   
• "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." - Edward Everett
    
• "The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it." - Thomas Edison
    
• "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
    
• "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams, "Notes for an Oration at Braintree" (1772)
    
• "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." - Robert H. Jackson
    
•  "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." - John Hay, (1872)
   
• "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
    
• "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning." - Frederick Douglass
   
• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
    
• "Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty." - Walt Whitman
    
• "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson 
   
• "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." - Somerset Maugham