"Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom."
-Albert Camus (1913-1960)
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
-Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Fascism will come to this country and it will come disguised as Americanism."
-Governor Huey Long
"When fascism comes, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross."
-Sinclair Lewis
"The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'."
-Walter E. Williams, Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
-Isaiah Berlin
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
-Sir Winston Churchill
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