They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink
from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political theorist, writer

If you are ashamed to stand by your colours, you had better seek another flag. 
Author Unknown

Our country, right or wrong  When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. 
Carl Schurz

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How quickly a free country can slide into the habits of a police state,
and how simple it is to intimidate and harass those who object."
Robin Page, Countryside Rights Campaigner

 "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is
that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
Somerset Maugham

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell

"Sentence first, verdict afterwards!" the Queen decrees in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," a miscarriage of justice
to which poor Alice attempts to object. "Hold your tongue!" the queen retorts, before adding, "Off with her head!"

Territory is but the body of a nation.  The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. 
James Garfield

"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness),
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..."
--- Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies, 1776.

The worse dictatorships are the ones where the people actually believe they are free.
Author Unknown