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Aug 17, 2005 02:37

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
~John T. Flynn

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
~Mary Roberts Rinehart

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
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