Compare and contrast

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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." --Benjamin Franklin

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced." --Bertrand Russell

"When the people fear the government you have tyranny... when the government fears the people you have liberty." --Thomas Jefferson

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --Abraham Lincoln

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt

"Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel." --H.L. Mencken

"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it." --Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

"Today American's would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." --Henry Kissinger

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change." --Dan Quayle

"There ought to be limits on freedom." --George W. Bush

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --George W. Bush

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." --George W. Bush

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one." --Adolf Hitler

"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." --George H. W. Bush

"Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,’ we now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake... We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones. Don't think that it's a one-way street." --Antonin Scalia