"those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1755
"You will hear people say, "Our country, right or wrong,"
but that is a false patriotism and bad Americanism.
When our country is wrong she is worse than other countries
when they are wrong, for she has more light than other
countries, and we somehow ought to make her feel that we
are sorry and ashamed for her."
-William Dean Howells, 1912