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  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

  • When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

    Exercise   Men   Voting  
    Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307
  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  • Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

    "Rights of Man, Part 2". Book by Thomas Paine. "Introduction", en.wikisource.org. 1792.
  • 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.
  • What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • 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.
  • Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

    Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”
  • In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

    Character   Men   Office  
    Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303
  • ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

    Selfish   Men   Rights  
    Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230
  • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

    George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.7
  • We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

    Hands   Two   Voting  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.437
  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

    Gun   Law   Strong Arms  
  • [The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

    George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.30, New York : J. Wiley
  • We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

    Christian   Men   Voting  
  • 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.

    Patriotic   Men   Law  
    The Federalist no. 62 (1788).
  • Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  • The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

    Character   Men   Voting  
  • When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

    Country   Sacrifice   Men  
    Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303
  • 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.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage
  • Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

  • The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

    Freedom   War   Patriotic  
    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.
  • If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

    Happiness   Failure   Men  
    Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230
  • For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Gun   Men   Strong Arms  
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