"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, the father of the American Revolution and primary instigator of the original tea party


 
 
"To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted."

-- Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, 1791