It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.