Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Participation

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


Thomas Jefferson

Sunday, April 24, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Where to Stand

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

John Adams

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Limited Government

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

Alexander Hamilton

Friday, April 15, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Value

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

Thomas Paine

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Liberty Lost

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

John Adams