Benjamin Franklin
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The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government.
Thomas Paine
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Thomas Jefferson