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  • The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

    Religious   Men   Issues  
  • Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413
  • Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

    Religious   Time   Art  
    Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.
  • If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

  • Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  • A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

    Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”
  • The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

    Father   Real   Democracy  
    "Democracy Isn’t Freedom" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. February 7, 2005.
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  • I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

    Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820
  • A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

  • A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.92, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  • He that cannot obey, cannot command.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  • Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  • It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    Life   Change   Happiness  
    Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

    Freedom   Media   Liberty  
    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

    Men   Law   Liberty  
    Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

    Bible   God   Religious  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229
  • Well done is better than well said.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

    Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.436
  • All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

    FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 25, 2012
  • 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 felicities.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Government is best which governs least

  • Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

    John Marshall (1836). “The life of George Washington: commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States”, p.447
  • If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

    Country   Patriotic   Men  
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