some of my favorite quotes

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything and no one is responsible for the state.” - Margaret Thatcher


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- thomas jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves excessive gratuities from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the treasury, with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. Professor Alexander Tyler

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. ~
> Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788

When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
> -Thomas Jefferson

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ President Abraham
Lincoln

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest
it come to dominate our lives and interests.
> -Patrick Henry

he that lives upon hope will die fasting- benjamin franklin

with great power comes great responsibility

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson

if you want peace prepare for war- the punisher-the movie

lets roll- todd beamer (passenger on flight united 93)

the only thing necessary for the triump of evil is for good men to do nothing. Dr. Robert Burke

we don't need refs but i guess white guys need something to do.- sir charles barkely

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."-- Ronald Reagan (1986)

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress" -- John Adams,

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill