One of our greatest founding fathers, if not truly the greatest, has been quoted hundreds of times. His ideas are mostly what America was founded on. However, I don't feel we live by those ideas that we were originally founded on.Read and let me know if you agree/disagree. And it's ok if you disagree and rip right into me. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
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
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
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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, those banks and the corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered
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
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto
I'll even throw this one in for you Bush hat..err non-supporters "Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
And finally for all of us who post to this board....especially me "He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
