"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in
session." -- Mark Twain
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in
session." -- Mark Twain
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and 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 Reagan
-- Ronald Reagan
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." -- Aristotle
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing." -- Ronald Reagan
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them" -- Thomas Jefferson
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights" -- James Madison
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" -- Samuel Adams
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -- Samuel Adams
"The trouble of socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money!" -- Margaret Thatcher
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." -- Thomas Jefferson
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” -- Dr. Adrian Rogers
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others."
-- Ludwig Von Mises
"That government is best which manages least" -- Henry David Thoreau
"The issue today is the same as it has always been throughout history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Brevity is the soul of wit." -- Shakespeare
"GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS; IT SUBSIDIZES THEM." -- Ronald Reagan
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -- Henry Louis Mencken
"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is
the master of all its legislation and commerce." -- President James A. Garfield
"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude." -- Calvin Coolidge
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” -- Benjamin Franklin
“The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny." -- Calvin Coolidge
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword...The other is by debt." ~ John Adams
"All are subject by nature to equal laws of morality, and in society have a right to equal laws for their government, yet no two men are perfectly equal in person, property, understanding, activity, and virtue, or ever can be made so by any power less than that which created them . . . all are subject by nature to equal laws of morality, and in society have a right to equal laws for their government." -- John Adams
"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is
the master of all its legislation and commerce." -- President James A. Garfield
"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude." -- Calvin Coolidge
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” -- Benjamin Franklin
“The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny." -- Calvin Coolidge
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword...The other is by debt." ~ John Adams
"All are subject by nature to equal laws of morality, and in society have a right to equal laws for their government, yet no two men are perfectly equal in person, property, understanding, activity, and virtue, or ever can be made so by any power less than that which created them . . . all are subject by nature to equal laws of morality, and in society have a right to equal laws for their government." -- John Adams
