A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be...surer of the noose than a private homicide.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism?

Historically, the most terrible things--war, genocide and slavery--have resulted from obedience, not disobedience.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

It's more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people...

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Suspicion must always fall on those who attempt to silence their opponents.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The character Salvor Hardin speaks these words in Asimov's "Foundation."

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/01/17/credo-from-attention-deficit-democracy/

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.