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Awesome quotes from America's founding father's

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
-Patrick Henry

"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will."
-Alexander Hamilton

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!"
-Alexander Hamilton
 
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!"
-Alexander Hamilton

I really like this one personally!... it is only like 16 words i think, but it has so much truth and power. maybe its just me though.
 
But he ought to be included because of all the awesome stuff he did for the country, like killing all those vampires and stuff.

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Thanks Linc.
 
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree" ~ James Maddison
 
In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, I lament, that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes, and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity, by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.
~Benjamin Rush
 
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
~George Washington
 
"The Constitution only promises the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-Benjamin Franklin (I'm pretty sure it's Franklin. If it's not him, it's probably Thomas Jefferson)
 
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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Ben Franklin
 
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