"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such 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 the facts they misconceive.
If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what
country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What
signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long
contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which
we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained _ we must
fight!"
Patrick Henry
"(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; ...the
propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right
which Heaven itself has ordained..."
George Washington, First Inaugural, April 30 1789
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other."
John Adams
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right"
"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people,
that these liberties are a gift from God?
Thomas Jefferson
"The citizens of the U.S. are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society"
"We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government."
James Madison
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful
master."
George Washington
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783
"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise
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, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
Benjamin Franklin
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such 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 the facts they misconceive.
If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what
country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What
signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long
contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which
we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained _ we must
fight!"
Patrick Henry
"(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; ...the
propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right
which Heaven itself has ordained..."
George Washington, First Inaugural, April 30 1789
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other."
John Adams
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right"
"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people,
that these liberties are a gift from God?
Thomas Jefferson
"The citizens of the U.S. are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society"
"We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government."
James Madison
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful
master."
George Washington
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783
"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise
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, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
| Hosea 4:1 ...for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because (there is) no truth, ...in the land. |
