Food for Thought

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
--William Pitt, 1783

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
--Wendell Phillips (1811-2884)