Freedom and Liberty

Patriotism and National Honor

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. --  Author Unknown

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity -- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. -- American Statesman and Politician in the 19th Century.

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, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence

How soon we forget history ... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. and, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -- George Washington, American Commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution and 1st US President

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain, American writer

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.-- James Madison, 4th U.S. President

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. -- Hugo Black, American Jurist, Lawyer and Politician

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's Constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. --  Martin H. Fischer, American scientist

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator and Activist in the mid 20th Century

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President

If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political CConstitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. - Daniel Webster, American Statesman and politician in the 19th Century

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. -- Billy Graham, American evangelist

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul, American physician and Congressman from Texas

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. -- James Madison, 4th U.S. President

Experience hath shown, 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, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. -- John Gardner, American writer and politician

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