If you choose an academic seeped in progressive theories and exposed to communist professors and elitist concepts, you will find the real simplicity of freedom escapes them. There are too few rules and too little control. Why God anything could happen!! I think we can listen to some of the founders and take some of that wisdom forward with us.
George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington: First Annual Address, to both Houses of Congress (8 January 1790).
Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.... The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. George Washington Farewell Address (1796)
If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be. George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
One man with courage is a majority.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
John Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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