Quotes from our Founding Fathers

The following is a collection of Quotes from our Founding Fathers. I fear that if our country continues on the path that this Marxist President is taking us it may reach a point from which there is no return. True Americans do not, and will not accept what is happening to our freedoms. I am posting these quotes for anyone to use in any correspondence to remind others what this country is really about. We will survive this attack on our freedoms.

In 1776-77, Thomas Paine's collection of his articles titled "The Crisis," he is quoted as saying, "These are the times that try men's souls." These eight little words so aptly describe the times we are going through today in the United States. Read these quotes and truly understand the vision and the wisdom if these great men.

"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --Samuel Adams

"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson

"No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave." --Alexander Hamilton

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." --James Madison

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." --James Madison

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." --Thomas Jefferson

"The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations." --George Washington


"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --Thomas Jefferson

"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. ... Have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without His notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" --Benjamin
Franklin


"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." --Benjamin Franklin

"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." --Samuel Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --Samuel Adams

"What a glorious morning this is!" --Samuel Adams

"It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson

"To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable." --James Madison

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." --Benjamin Franklin
"The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men." --Alexander Hamilton

"No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." --Joseph Story

"[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas Jefferson
"No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable." --Federalist No. 62
"A universal peace ... is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts." --James Madison

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

"Whensoever the General Government assumes un-delegated powers, its acts are un-authoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson

"[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution." --Alexander Hamilton

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." --Alexander Hamilton

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic." --Justice Joseph Story

"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. ... The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition." --James Madison

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." --Thomas Jefferson

"No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave." --Alexander Hamilton

"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety." --Daniel Webster

God Bless America

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