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"The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. We ignore America's lost sovereignty at our peril."
Ronald Reagan (40th U.S. President, 1981-1989); from June 14, 1984 press conference

"Experience hath shewn [shown], that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (Founding father, 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809); quote from 1778)

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
Mark Twain (pen name for Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), American novelist)

"The old employments by which we have heretofore gained our livelihood, are gradually, and it may seem inevitably, passing into other hands. Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived immigrant whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place."
Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, editor and reformer (1818 - 1895); quote from speech delivered before the A.A.S. Society, in New York, May, 1853)

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton (influential Founding Father, 1755-1804)

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President, 1961 - 1963)

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
Samuel Adams (Founding father, patriot & politician, 1722-1803)

"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Civil Rights Leader, 1929 - 1968)

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming, in every facet, an American and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President (1901-1909); quote from 1907)

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President, 1961 - 1963)

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
Thomas Paine (influential writer, American Patriot, 1737 - 1809)

"A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American."
Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President (1913-1921)

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams (Founding father, patriot & politician, 1722-1803)

"Good fences make good neighbors."
Robert Frost (American Poet (1874-1963); quote from 1915)

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (British Prime Minister, quote on eve of Britain's entry into World War II)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke (Irish philosopher & politician, 1729 - 1797)

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities... each preserving its separate nationality..."
Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President (1901-1909); quote from 1915)

"Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them."
Thomas Jefferson (Founding father, 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809); quote from 1809 address to Annapolis citizens)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Civil Rights Leader, 1929 - 1968)

"The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States."
Ronald Reagan (40th U.S. President, 1981-1989); from Presidential Proclamation 4865, September 29, 1981

"There is one thing stronger than all the kings and queens, and all the armies of the world combined, and that is the power of an idea whose time has come."
Victor-Marie Hugo (influential French writer and poet (1802-1885); quote from 1848)

"Let's roll!"
Todd M. Beamer (last known words of Mr. Beamer immediately before passengers of United Flight 93 confronted the Al Qaeda hijackers on September 11, 2001)

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President, 1861-1865)

"Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces and, in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. One of these is greed composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength (broad backs) at the lowest possible wage and who prefer a rapidly revolving labor supply at low wages to a regular supply of American wage earners at fair wages. 'The other is ethnic identity politics composed of racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country."
Samuel Gompers (immigrant; founder and president of American Federation of Labor; quote from his letter to the U.S. Congress dated March 19, 1924)

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."
Martin Luther (German theologian who inspired the Reformation (1483 - 1546))

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
Margaret Thatcher (influential British Prime Minister, 1979 to 1990)

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964; led U.S. forces in World War II Pacific campaigns as Supreme Allied Commander, 1941-1945)

"There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President, 1961 - 1963); quoted in "A Nation of Immigrants", 1964

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell (pen name for Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), English author)

"American institutions rest solely on good citizenship.... New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration.... Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America."
Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. President, 1923-1929); from First Message to Congress, December 1923

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President, 1861-1865); from Nov. 21, 1864 letter to Col. William F. Elkins

"The rich require an abundant supply of the poor."
Voltaire (pen name for Francois Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), French Author and Philosopher)

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill (English economist, philosopher and influential classical liberal thinker; 1806 - 1873)

"Minutemen and women, stand your ground! If it's a war our political governors want, then let it begin here. We will fight them under the First Amendment and within the rule of law. And we will not quit!"
James "Jim" Gilchrist (born 1949; founder of the Minuteman Project)
[Inspired by the famous historical quote by Captain John Parker, who led about 75 Minutemen into the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, to fight the British Army which outnumbered the Minutemen by a ratio of at least 10-to-1: "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."]

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (Founding father, 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809))

For additional immigration-related quotations, visit the Immigration Quotations Page from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).