Power must never be trusted without a check.
John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb. 2, 1816
Be not intimidated....nor suffer yourself to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
John Adams
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
John Adams




The Bitty Blog With the Vast Vision
"I learned by experience that democracy lives on the exercise and functioning of democracy. As a child learns and grows by doing, a people learn democracy by acting in democratic ways. I knew from the history of other countries that even the best democratic constitutions did not prevent dictatorships unless the people were trained in democracy and held themsevles etermally vigilant and ready to oppose all infringements on liberty."
Harry Weinberger, March 1919

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

"If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
Harold R. Medina

Action from principle, - the perception and the performance of right, - changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with any thing which was. It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; aye, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience

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