Quote of the Day
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Category Archives: Quotes
The Constitution
Quote of the Day
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.”
-Daniel Webster
Pickpocket
Quote of the Day
“The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.”
-Joseph Sobran
Failure to Observe
Quote of the Day
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
-Justice Tom C. Clark
Sword and the Purse
Quote of the Day
“Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.”
-Patrick Henry
Domestic Oppression
Quote of the Day
“A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.”
-James Madison
Ancient Rome Declined
Quote of the Day
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”
-Will Rogers
Make It Right
Quote of the Day
“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.”
-Carl Schurz
A Man’s Rights
Quote of the Day
“A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
-Frederick Douglass
Civil Freedom
Quote of the Day
“The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
