John R...
IP: 24.23.45.107
Jul 5, 08 - 6:35 AM |
Celebrating the 4th
Were these treasonous gentlemen Republican or Democrat?
John R...
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. "
--- Thomas Paine
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
---Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
--- Benjamin Franklin
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
---Patrick Henry
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
---Patrick Henry
"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
---Patrick Henry
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
---Patrick Henry
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
---John Adams
"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."
---John Adams
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
---John Adams
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
---John Adams, Journal, 1772
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
---John Adams, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
|
First
Prev
Reply
Forum
bravenet.com