“I love my country, not my government.”

“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mur”

“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”

“I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...”

“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”

“We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. Prohibiting something do...”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delus...”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”