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• The States supposed that by their tenth amendment, they had secured themselves against constructive powers. "
  - Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace "
  - Amelia Earhart Putnam
  
  
• Discipline without freedom is tyranny, freedom without discipline is chaos "
  - Cullen Hightower
  
  
• In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. "
  - President Dwight Eisenhower
  January 1961
  
  
• The liberties of our country, are worth defending at all hazards. We have received them from our worthy ancestors: They purchased them for us with toil, treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us...or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men "
  - Samuel Adams
  1771
  
  

• I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall by my country's, my God's, and Truths. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. "
  - Daniel Webster
  
  
• 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
  
  
• A nation without borders is not a nation. "
  - Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Don¹t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "
  - Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• "The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained for many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practised. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws."
  - EMMA WILLARD, American educator & historian, 1843.
  From "America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations", by William J. Federer, FAME Publishing, Inc., 1996
  
  
• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. "
  - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
  
  
• In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. "
  - The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America Declaration of Independence
  
  
• "The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
  - Felix Frankfurter , Graves vs. New York; 1939
  
  
• "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
  - John Philpot Curran
  http://www.evervigilant.net/
  
  
• "It is error alone which needs the support of government.
  Truth can stand by itself."
  - Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• PRAYER FOR THE NATION -- "Almighty God, you have given us this good land for our heritage. We humbly ask you that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of your favor.

  Endow with the Spirit of wisdom to those to whom in your name we entrust with the authority of government.

  In time of prosperity fill our hearts with the thankfulness, and in the day of trouble do not allow our trust in you to fail."
  - Thomas Jefferson
  
  

• "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
  - Booker T. Washington, 1911
  
  
• "Here is the true cost of freedom:

  EVERY ounce of Courage
  EVERY pound of Pain
  EVERY drop of Blood

  PAID IN ADVANCE!"

  
  - Author Unknown
  
  
  
• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
  
  

• THE AMERICAN'S CREED
  "I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
  I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies."
  - WILLIAM TYLER PAGE, April 13, 1918
  
  
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge - and more. To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do - for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder."
  - PRES. JOHN F. KENNEDY,, The Capitol, Washington, DC, Jan. 20, 1961 (exerpted from his Inaugural Speech)
  
  
• "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
  - THOMAS JEFFERSON, from "Query XVIII" of his "Notes on the State of Virginia", 1781.
  
  
• "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
  - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  
  
• "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
  - NOAH WEBSTER
  
  
• The Bible is the Book upon which this Republic rests."
  - ANDREW JACKSON, Seventh President of the United States
  
  
• "Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security."
  -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  
  
• "I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made. And I shall be most happy, indeed, if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty...for perpetuating the object of that struggle."
  - PRES. ABRAHAM LINCOLN; addressing the New Jersey State Senate, 1861.
  
  
• "Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security."
  - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  
  
• "And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee. Bless us with Thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let all our victories be tempered with humanity. Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing to restore our liberty and peace. Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the sake of Him whom Thou hast called Thy beloved Son; nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done."
  - GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON; (Private prayer from June 1779 from his headquarters on the Hudson River)
  
  

• "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
  - ABRAHAM LINCOLN; (Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11 ,1858)
  
  
• "There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
  - RONALD W. REAGAN
  
  
• "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
  - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
  
  
• Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
  - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; (From his "Maxims and Morals")
  
  
• An honest man can feel no Pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens
  - THOMAS JEFFERSON
  
  

 

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