Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. – George Washington
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. – George Washington
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. – George Washington
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt