Thomas Sowell -

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Eric Hoffer -

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Don Surber -

White privilege -- a term I do understand -- is a notion that it is white people's turn to serve as second-class citizens.

Cymbeline -

Plenty and peace breed cowards.

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.

Horace -

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt."

“They change their sky, not their souls, who cross the sea.”