"(America)
knows best that by enlisting
under other banners than her
own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would
involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of
interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which
assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."
John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State
"The erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault ...
Rather, it is a gradual, noxious
creeping cloaked in secrecy and glossed over by reassurances of greater
security."
Senator Robert C. Byrd, March 2006