Bret Cahill
3/8/2011 1:18:00 AM
> > What Would America's Founders Say?
>
> > The two enemies of the people are criminals
> > and government, so let us tie the second down
> > with the chains of the Constitution so the
> > second will not become the legalized version
> > of the first.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Those who hammer their guns into plows will
> > plow for those who do not.
> > --Thomas Jefferson
>
> > It does not take a majority to prevail ... but
> > rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on
> > setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
> > men.
> > --Samuel Adams
>
> > The strongest reason for the people to retain
> > the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
> > resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
> > in government.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > A free people ought not only to be armed and
> > disciplined, but they should have sufficient
> > arms and ammunition to maintain a status of
> > independence from any who might attempt to
> > abuse them, which would include their own
> > government."
> > -- George Washington
>
> > No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > If the freedom of speech is taken away then
> > dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to
> > the slaughter.
> > -- George Washington
>
> > When governments fear the people there is liberty.
> > When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... Disarm only
> > those who are neither inclined nor determined to
> > commit crimes.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a
> > standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed
> > populace.
> > -- James Madison
>
> > If the representatives of the people betray
> > their constituents, there is then no resource
> > left but in the exertion of that original
> > right of self-defense which is paramount to
> > all positive forms of government ... The
> > citizens must rush tumultuously to arms,
> > without concert, without system, without
> > resource; except in their courage and despair
> > ... The natural strength of the people in a
> > large community, in proportion to the artificial
> > strength of the government, is greater than in a
> > small ... the people, without exaggeration, may
> > be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.
> > -- Alexander Hamilton
>
> > All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
> > of good conscience to remain silent.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Every government degenerates when trusted to the
> > rulers of the people alone. The people themselves
> > are its only safe depositories.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > As our enemies have found we can reason like men,
> > so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
> > Action will delineate and define you.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Merchants have no country. The mere spot they
> > stand on does not constitute so strong an
> > attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy
> > of our monied corporations which dare already to
> > challenge our government to a trial by strength,
> > and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > I believe that banking institutions are more
> > dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > Experience hath shewn, that even under the best
> > forms of government those entrusted with power
> > have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted
> > it into tyranny.
> > -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> > A Founding Father speaks out on what's nowadays
> > called "political correctness":
>
> > Do not suffer yourselves to be wheeled out of
> > your liberty to publish by any pretenses of
> > politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they
> > are so often used, are but three different names
> > for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
> > --John Adams
>
> Still using those phony Jefferson and Adams quotes.
I intentially misattribute Madison to Marx as a valuable prank to
expose rightards' anti-Marxist posturing as a sham and rightards get
all upset.
Yet here is a rightard who actually believes his nonsense quotes and
rightards don't have a problem with that at all.
Bret Cahill