“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” — Matthew 7:15 (King James Bible).

ELIZABETH: “They say he give them but two words. ‘More weight,’ he says. And died.”
PROCTOR: “‘More weight.’”
ELIZABETH: “Aye. It were a fearsome man, Giles Corey.”
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953), Act IV.

“I have a farther Incitement, when I consider, that the same Lot which attends me, good or bad, attends you: And, to have the same Wishes, and the same Dislikes, is the solid Band of Amity.” — Sallust, Catiline's Conspiracy, trans. Thomas Gordon (1744), 17.

“Mr. Madison’s talents, respectable as they are will for some time be lost to the public, from his timidity. He is constantly haunted with the ghost of Patrick Henry.” — Theodore Sedgwick to Benjamin Lincoln, July 19, 1789.

"Whilst they were packing up to go to Virginia, I was packing to go, I didn't know where; for I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty.” — Ona Judge, "Washington's Runaway Slave," The Granite Freeman, May 22, 1845.

“…the idea of freedom might be too great a temptation for them to resist.” — George Washington to Tobias Lear, April 12, 1791.

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?” —Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government (1849).

“I have heard hurrahs and cheers for liberty many times; I have not seen a great many deeds done for liberty. I ask you, are we to have deeds as well as words?” — Theodore Parker at Faneuil Hall, May 26, 1854.

"Treason will not be treason much longer, but patriotism." — Franklin Sanborn to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1858.

“If we fail in this great duty now, when we have the power, we shall deserve and receive the execration of history and of all future ages." — Thaddeus Stevens in the U.S. House of Representatives, December 18, 1865.

“If there had not been abolitionists in America, both Negro and white, we might still stand today in the dungeons of slavery. And then because there have been, in every period, there are always those people in every period of human history who don’t mind getting their necks cut off, who don’t mind being persecuted and discriminated and kicked about, because they know that freedom is never given out, but it comes through the persistent and the continual agitation and revolt on the part of those who are caught in the system.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Birth of a New Nation” sermon, April 7, 1957.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” — Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, July 2, 2024.