"When all pretense and play-acting by the Conspiracy ends, then we know that the war of words is over and that liberty must again be purchased at the price of blood. But anyone who gives up while education is still possible, and while truth is still available, will forfeit a priceless opportunity to save lives and to secure liberty."
Don Fotheringham (1992)
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Henry David Thoreau
"If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the Hand of God."
George Washington
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
(Excerpted from page 43 of The Common Good, 1998)
Noam Chomski