America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom. -- John Quincy Adams

Dependence leads to subservience. -- Thomas Jefferson

Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. -- Robert LeFevre

There is no crueler tyranny that that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. -- Thomas Edison