Quotes from the Founders

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Quotes from the Founders
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'An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. That battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. 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

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'A government of laws, and not of men.'

- John Adams

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'Fear is the foundation of most governments.'

- John Adams

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'Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.'

- John Adams

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"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."

- James Madison

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"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

- James Madison

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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

- James Madison

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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

- James Madison

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"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

- James Madison

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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

- James Madison

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"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

- James Madison

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"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

- James Madison

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Quotes from the Founders
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'An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. That battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. 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.'

- Thomas Paine

Incorrect - Patrick Henry

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Incorrect - Patrick Henry

Doh, your right!!