America's Heritage
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
-Peter Marshall - 1st chaplain of the U.S. Senate
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
"These are the times that yry men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case."
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
-Thomas Paine
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites..."
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
"I venture to say no war can be long carried onagainst the will of the people."
-Edmund Burke
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
When asked what kind of government did they give us? He replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
"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 noticee, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"
"If you would relish food, labor for it before you take it; if you enjoy clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you."
"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."
"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know if no way of judging the future but by the past."
"What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry
"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-Samuel Johnson
"If you love wealth more than liberty, and if you prefer the tranquility of servitude rather than the animated contest of freedom, then go home in peace. We seek neither your counsel nor your arms. But bend down and lick the hands that feed you; and may your chains rest lightly upon you. And may posterity forget that you were our countryman."
-Samuel Adams
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure."
"A sense of this necessity, and a submission to 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 notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans -- we are federalists."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs grenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes."
-Horace Greeley
"Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."
-George Washington
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse... from the public treasury... The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years... from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again into bondage."
-Alexander Tyler, 1750
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