John Wilkes

“The first duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”

“That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress.”

“The freedom of the press is the great bulwark of liberty.”

“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

“Power without right is robbery.”

“A man's character is not to be judged by the company he keeps, but by the company he avoids.”

“The moment a man is a member of a club, he is a diminished man.”

“Give me a grain of truth, and I will find you a stone of philosophy in it.”

“That sir, is a question which I refuse to answer, because I do not know the answer.”

“I am for a government of laws, and not for a government of men.”