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Thomas
Jefferson:
I believe that Banking Institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American
people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that
grow up around [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. |
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George Washington:
While just government protects all in their religious rights, true
religion affords to government its surest support. |
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James
Madison:
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them
that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of
government hold their power, is derived. |
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Samuel Adams:
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the
liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. |
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James Garfield:
Now, more then
ever, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress
(Elected Representatives). If that body be Ignorant, Reckless and Corrupt,
it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption.
If it be Intelligent, Brave and Pure, it is because the people demand
these High Qualities to represent them. |
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John Adams:
Our
Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious People. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other. |
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James Madison:
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. |
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Thomas Jefferson:
A democracy is nothing
more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away
the rights of the other forty-nine. |
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James
Madison:
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for
the protection of which Government was instituted. |
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Abraham Lincoln:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
nations. |
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Benjamin Franklin:
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt
and vicious, they have more need of masters. |
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Thomas Jefferson:
And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any
circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, |
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William Penn:
It is impossible that any people of
government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which
is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's. |
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Joseph Story:
Indeed, the right of a society or government to [participate] in matters
of religion will hardly be contested by any persons who believe that
piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being
of the state and indispensable to the administrations of civil justice. |
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Ron
Paul:
I am
absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in
order to be secure. |
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Alexis de
Tocqueville:
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize
they can bribe the people with their own money. |
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Winston
Churchill:
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance
and the gospel of envy.
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Thomas
Jefferson:
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general
welfare but only those specifically enumerated. |
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Edmund
Burke:
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
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John F.
Kennedy:
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in
an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. |
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James
Madison:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations. |
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John F.
Kennedy:
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not
what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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Thomas
Jefferson:
All, too, will
bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority
is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must
protect, and to violate would be oppression. |
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James
Madison:
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead
of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. |
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John F.
Kennedy:
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at
the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson
dined alone. |
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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 the
bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. |
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John F.
Kennedy:
Let us not
seek The Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own
responsibility for the future. |
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James
Madison:
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of
their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or
so incoherent that they cannot be understood. |
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Thomas
Jefferson:
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ... They are the only sure
reliance for the preservation of our liberty. |
