Quotes to ponder

"There Are Two Ways To Enslave A Country.... One Is By The Sword. The Other Is By Debt." — John Adams

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."- Ronald Wilson Reagan

"The national budget must be balanced.
The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -- attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937, opposing government unions:
"Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable."

"We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. We the people are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast." Ronald Reagan’s farewll adress (January 11, 1989)

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
- Patrick Henry

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - credited to Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - credited to Thomas Jefferson

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil, God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald R. Ford

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist
as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist
up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on,
the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from the public treasure, with the result that every
democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policies, (which is)
always followed by a dictatorship."   Alexander Taylor, 1786