Timely Words of Wisdom

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." --Thomas Paine, American Patriot and self-published book author

"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards." -- Sir William Francis Butler

"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." --George Orwell