Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
-George Washington
Category Archives: Quotes
Each man must for himself alone decide…
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may
-Mark Twain
Good people do not need laws…
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
-Plato
obligation to read and interpret the Constitution
“It is every Americans’ right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.”
-Thomas Jefferson
They know so much that isn’t so
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.
-Ronald Reagan
Give me liberty
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
-Patrick Henry
Government is the problem
“Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
-Ronald Reagan
Rights and liberties of the people
“Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
-Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts
The tree of liberty must be refreshed
“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
-Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith
To preserve liberty
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…”
Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate
