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The threat of tyranny is ever present. Again, as Robert advises, “we must not be complacent.”

“If you see injustice and say nothing, you have taken the side of the oppressor.” -- Desmund Tutu,.South African Anglican Archbishop

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -- Voltaire

“Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.” -- President John Quincy Adams

“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” -- George Orwell – 1946

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin expressed the goal of America’s experiment in liberty when he said, "God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country."

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