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• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799)...
• Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which
  under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty....
• In the full tide of successful experiment.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...
• If the liberties of the American people are every destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Clergy.
  -- General Marquis de Lafayette, 1789...
• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force
  like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master....
• The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory.
  -- George Bush, 1989 Inaugural Addre...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...