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Freedom
"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but
that they know so much that isn't so."
-
Ronald Reagan
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the
people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be
led, like sheep to the slaughter."
- George Washington
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God
is acknowledged."
- Ronald Reagan
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do
nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
2nd
amendment
"The
strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are
the peoples' liberty's teeth."
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil
interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
- George Washington
"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion...
in private self-defense."
- John Adams
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the
citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the
people with arms."
- James Madison
"The great object is that every man be armed."
- Patrick Henry
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of
the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms."
- Samuel Adams
Government
"I believe
there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by
gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations."
- James Madison
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation
Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people
discipline themselves."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has
gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
- Ronald Reagan
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results
from too much government."
- Thomas Jefferson
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from
the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good
government."
Thomas Jefferson
"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the
problem."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire,
it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the
government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
- George Washington
Constitution
"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
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to
pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution], let us carry
ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect
the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning
may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the
probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, June 12, 1823
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams |