Quotes from our Founding Fathers

02, January 2012 - The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patrick Henry

03, January 2012 - "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."   Thomas Jefferson

04, January 2012 - "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."  William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

05, January 2012 – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

07, January 2012 - Thomas Jefferson "Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right" "Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? 

08, January 2012 - "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."  Thomas Jefferson

09, January 2012 - "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."  Thomas Jefferson

23, January 2012 - "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms . . ." GEORGE MASON