Fraser Tyler
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.* It can only exist until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.* From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Adams
(The Works of John Adams, ed. C. F. Adams, Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1851, 4:31)
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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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
Patrick Henry
(What do you think he would have said of unrepentant adulterers, fornicators, sodomites, and bestialites that revel and riot on america's streets with the consent of their government?)
Benjamin Franklin
Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption.
If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.
James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry, American colonial revolutionary
It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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