When History Repeats Itself

Every once in a while, we need reminding of what makes this country so great. Enjoy the following quotes from some historical men. Men that, the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Ann Coulter, would consider treasonous.

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
-Benjamin Franklin

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson

"The people are the rightful master of both congresses and the courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it." -Abraham Lincoln

"There are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-James Madison

"The means of Defense against Foreign Danger have become the Instruments of Tyranny at Home."
-James Madison

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -James Baldwin

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile..." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official..." -Theodore Roosevelt

The next time you hear Sean Hannity pontificate and spew something like, “At what point do we say you are undermining the troops, you are hurting their leader, that this is beyond political discourse, this is hurtful to what they’re doing, their effort?”, in Fox News fashion to accomplish their agenda of silencing dissenters; remember the aforementioned quotes by men far wiser than the current political talking heads.