"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error"...U.S. Supreme Court

"Oh, remember, if you submit to arbitrary measures, you will entail on your sons despotic power. Your sons and daughters must be strangers to the comforts of liberty; they will be considered like beasts of burden, only made for their masters use. If the groans and cries of posterity in oppression can be any argument; come now, my noble countrymen, fight for your sons and daughters"...David Jones...sermon on the Day of the Continental Fast, Philadelphia, 1775

"... when you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."...FDR