addictionary
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It's just perfect how many of them are about how power rots the morality of men and women.
~with the possible exceptions of course.
~with the possible exceptions of course.
Awesome quotes from America's founding father's
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JGolds
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little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
-Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
-Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
JGolds
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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
- Patrick Henry
"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
- Patrick Henry
- Patrick Henry
"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
- Patrick Henry
Wow, I love that one.
I did as well. It goes well with the one below it too.
JGolds
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I got him.
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude."
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Both by George Washington
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Both by George Washington