Participation

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."


Thomas Jefferson

Restraint

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patrick Henry

Where to Stand

"Always stand on principle....even if you stand alone."

John Adams

Limited Government

"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."

Alexander Hamilton

Parasites

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.


Thomas Jefferson

Value

"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."

Thomas Paine

Two Types of Education

"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live."

John Adams

A Course of Years

"I believe… that this [the US Constitution] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

Benjamin Franklin

Liberty Lost

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

John Adams