A government big enough to give you everything you need, is strong enough to take everything you have. --Thomas Jefferson
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison
The Constitution gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it for yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
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
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Benjamin Franklin
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. --Thomas Paine
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a good foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. --Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. --Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown from too much government. --Thomas Jefferson
We are all born ignorant, but must work to remain stupid. --Benjamin Franklin
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do. I know, because I've done it a thousand times. --Mark Twain
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than to those attending too small a degree of it. --Thomas Jefferson
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. --Benjamin Franklin
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. --Ronald Reagan
The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent peaceable men from owning their own guns. --Samuel Adams
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. --Benjamin Franklin
I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery. --Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed every now and then with the blood of patriots and tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. --Thomas Jefferson
