One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
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