"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

"I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners." -- Berkeley Breathed

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson

"I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States. Hey, you win some, you lose some, then there's that little-known third category."

"The Republic will always be in danger so long as the soldier has a rifle and the worker has none." -- Friedrich Engels

"A rightist supports the Bourbons. A leftist opposes them." -- James Nicoll

"If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force." -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

"Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it." -- Jo Walton

"For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane." -- Neal Stephenson

"I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending--if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism." -- Charles Stross