The Brass Monkey's Fav Quotes

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and morale nature of freedom. The character of the censored press is the nondescript confusion of tyranny. (Karl Marx 1842)

When the people is master of the vote it becomes master of the government.
(Aristotle 384-322)
-Quoted in The Constitution of Athens-

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
...But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
...We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
(Theodore Roosevelt 1919)

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 – 1968