"Never cast pearls before swine." -Robert A. Heinlein
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is being ruled by your inferiors." -Plato
"You have lost a fight that you never had any chance of winning. It is not your fault, but it absolutely is your responsibility." -Craig Beck from his book "Alcohol Lied to Me"
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" -Frederick Douglass
"The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence" -Jordan Peterson
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day" -Jefferson
"Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author of Gulag Archipelago)

In a world of excess, temperance becomes a golden virtue.