"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." Thomas Jefferson

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" Winston Churchill

"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." Alexis de Tocqueville

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." Henry Louis Mencken

"Americans always try to do the right thing-after they've tried everything else." Winston Churchill

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." Thomas Jefferson

"It is precisely when people have invested in errors that they are afraid of the truth, and therefore eager to silence those who proclaim it." Roger Scruton

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Alexander Hamilton

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." Thomas Paine

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." James Madison