“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” 
-Mark Twain
 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
 
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy…the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”  
-President James Madison 
 
“A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”
-Benjamin Franklin
 
“Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty.”
-President George Washington
 
“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience….In the councils of government, 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.  We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.  We should take nothing for granted.”
-President, & 5 Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
“Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.”
-Hannah Arendt
 
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
-Gen. Charles DeGaulle
 
"They who allow their passions to confound the distinctions between right and wrong, are criminal. They may be convinced; but they have not come honestly by their conviction." 
-Samuel Johnson