Posted by
Edna Eagle on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:00:00 AM
"Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch...
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote"
Ben Franklin
"During this political season let's be reminded of these wise words. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln (also attributed/disputed ) to in1916 to the Rev. William J. H. Boetckeo
"Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without a rebellion. the people cannot be all and always well informed.The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of facts they misconceive, If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, The forerunner of death to the public's liberty...
And what country can preserve it's liberties if it's rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? ...
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.It's natures manure..."
Thomas Jefferson 11/13/1787
* "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison, The Federalist 46
* "Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
Patrick Henry
* "That the Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe on the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent "the people" of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
Samuel Adams
* "A free people ought ... to be armed." George Washington
* "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson
* "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state." Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 28
"Government is like fire, a handy servant but a dangerous monster"
George Washington
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny,
When the government fears the people, there is Liberty!"
Thomas Jefferson
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority"
Benjamin Franklin
"The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is,
As a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is a fragile thing, and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be defended constantly by each generation for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again."
Ronald Regan
"If we have to we should take our soldiers up into the Blue Ridge mountains of our great country and their the people would fight till their last breath for the next twenty years if need be."
George Washington
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison
"With respect to the words, "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of power connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution…[that] was not contemplated by the creators."
James Madison
Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831 (Madison, 1865, IV, pages 171-172)
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god"
Thomas Jefferson
"To preserve Liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people possess arms, and taught alike, especially when young how to use them"
Richard Henry Lee 1787
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison
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Educate a man in mind and not in morals and you educate a menace to society."
Teddy Roosevelt
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
Thomas Jefferson
KEEP THESE WORDS IN MIND AND SAVE THIS REPUBLIC!