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"An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." ~ Sun Tzu ~

"Liberty is meaningless where the fight to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." ~ Frederick Douglas ~

"Truth is what redeems the world from hell and that's the truth. Tell the truth. And don't lie. Start talking and sharpen yourself up. The enemy is a cloud – they are a cloud of gnats – they are only courageous in groups; in mobs. If you stand your ground and don't apologize and you articulate things properly, they will...

"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized; if all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance – you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest." ~ Ian Watson ~

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice...

"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them." ~ Alexander the Great ~

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and courage to see that they do not remain as they are." ~ Augustine of Hippo ~

"Be silent no more! Cry out with one hundred thousand tongues. I see that, because of this silence, the world is in ruins." ~ Saint Catherine of Siena ~

"Movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent, while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence" ~ James Lindsay ~

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." ~ Ayn Rand ~