"Amateurs borrow, artists steal."



- Picasso




"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." 



- Sinclair Lewis . 1935



"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, 
while the living person is dependent and has no individuality." 




- Karl Marx 



"If 9/11 was Bush's Woodstock, Katrina is his Altamont -- the 
place where his ability to unite people behind a flurry of flag- 
waving came to look like the hollow sham it always was." 



- Tina Brown 




"I worried -- I worry -- that if you tell a group of people they are 
wholly free, that they can do anything they want to do, that group's 
first impulse will be to imitate each other. Another term for this 
tendency is called late-stage capitalism."



- Lance Olson



 “To be sure, one can laugh at the expression of the preacher of reconciliation when history 
answers his preaching by showing him the two peoples he loved embracing in a death grip. 
He himself, in any case, is not inclined to laugh at it. Faced with such a failure, his only concern 
must be to spare his country any unnecessary suffering.” 



- Albert Camus [lecture given in Algiers in February 1956]




"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."



- President Thomas Jefferson 




"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government"




- Thomas Paine 




"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither."




- Benjamin Franklin




"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow 
weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, 
or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."




- President Abraham Lincoln 
 



"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."




- President Theodore Roosevelt 




"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. 
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience 
and through rebellion."




- Oscar Wilde 




"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."



- George Bernard Shaw 




"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, 
and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."




- Dr. Martin Luther King