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If Men Were Angels No Government Would Be Necessary

markross — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:49:03 +0000

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government.”

- James Madison (Federalist Papers #51)

Those Who Will Not Be Governed By God

markross — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:10:41 +0000

“Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

– William Penn

The Time Is Now Near At Hand

markross — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:48:30 +0000

“The time is now near at hand which will probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves, whether they are to have any property they can call their own, or whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed and they consigned to a state of wretchedness from which they cannot be delivered. Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance or the most abject submission.”

- General George Washington (Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island)

Taking From The Federal Government The Power Of Borrowing

markross — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:58:23 +0000

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender.”

- Thomas Jefferson

If The American People Ever Allow Private Banks

markross — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:58:57 +0000

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

– Thomas Jefferson

On Every Question Of Construction

markross — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:51:49 +0000

“On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Never Was So Much False Arithmetic Employed

markross — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:05:10 +0000

“Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war. Were the money which it has cost to gain, at the close of a long war, a little town or a little territory, the right to cut wood here or to catch fish there, expended in improving what they already possess, in making roads, opening rivers, building ports, improving the arts and finding employment for their idle poor, it would render them much stronger, much wealthier and happier. This I hope will be our wisdom.”

- Thomas Jefferson

The States Are The Most Competent Administrations

markross — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:19:33 +0000

“The States are the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.”

- Thomas Jefferson

If There Must Be Trouble

markross — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:05:16 +0000

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”

- Thomas Paine

It Is Better To Know The Worst

markross — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:15:50 +0000

“It is better to know the worst, and provide for it, than to delude ourselves with false hope.”

- Patrick Henry