You've been warned.. were you listening?

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-- James Madison

'When the government fears the people it is a democracy....when the people fear their government it is tyranny...'
-- Thomas Jefferson

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
– Thomas Jefferson

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
– James Madison

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
– Herman Goering

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

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
– Voltaire

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
– William Ellery Channing

"If there be one principle more deeply written than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
– Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio

Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible.
-- Sinclair Lewis 1935