The wisdom of our forefathers
"My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just"
-- Thomas Jefferson
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."
-- Thomas Paine
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home."
-- James Madison
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
-- James Madison, writing to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--John Adams
"The 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
"I hope a tax will be preferred [to a loan which threatens to saddle us with a perpetual debt], because it will awaken the attention of the people and make reformation and economy the principle of the next election. The frequent recurrence of this chastening operation can alone restrain the propensity of governments to enlarge expense beyond income."
--Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1820.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."
-- Thomas Paine
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home."
-- James Madison
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
-- James Madison, writing to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--John Adams
"The 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
"I hope a tax will be preferred [to a loan which threatens to saddle us with a perpetual debt], because it will awaken the attention of the people and make reformation and economy the principle of the next election. The frequent recurrence of this chastening operation can alone restrain the propensity of governments to enlarge expense beyond income."
--Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1820.