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Some of my favorite quotes from our founding fathers!
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
Patrick Henry
"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are
caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most
inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in
hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the
present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every
denomination so far that we should never again see the religious
disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
George Washington
George Washington
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual
debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If
we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our
necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our
creeds...we will have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks
of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure
from principle in one instance becomes a precedent till the bulk of society is reduced to
be mere automatons of misery. And the foreshores of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
Thomas Jefferson
"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules."
Thomas Jefferson
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world believing him."
Thomas Jefferson