"What man calls civilization always results in deserts" - Don Marquis

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy" - Ayn Rand

"The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison" - Henry David Thoreau

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, but is morally treasonable to the American public." [ Theodore Roosevelt ]

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." [ Dwight Eisenhower