“A wise man’s heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left.” Ecclesiastes 10:2
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“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” James Madison…
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“[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a…
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“Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.” Ronald Reagan
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The one everyone has heard hundreds of times in the last three years: Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” nBen Fraklin
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“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.” John Stuart Mill
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“Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.” Thomas Jefferson – Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
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“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.” John Adams
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“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was…
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“The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals …. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right…
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“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” Thomas Jefferson James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this…
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“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison – Federal No. 45, January 26, 1788
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“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. “ John Derbyshire
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“It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those…
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“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson