So I have always considered our Founding Fathers to be inspired men. But, until just recently I never realized how inspired they were. I have begun a collection of quotes from significant people on our history that I like. As I have done this I have started with the Founding Fathers.
Now I'm going to share with you some of their words and you tell me that these guys didn't know what they were talking about and knew exactly what they were doing when they created our government.
Also, see if you can see how any of these quotes apply to us.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Thomas Jefferson
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
Thomas Jefferson
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary saftey deserves neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Bongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quite under such misconceptions it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... 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
And Finally My Favorite....
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
I don't know about you, but I've had it up to my eyeballs with all the crap we are putting up with. I am so pissed off right now with our government that I can hardly see straight. I know that the democrats are killing us, but I have been looking into Orrin Hatch and the crap we are putting up with there. Is he conservative? Yes, I guess. Is he a Utah conservative? No Friggin' Way!!! This guy has Washington government written all over him and he is getting under my skin.
We are being too patient here with our government. The Colonies rebelled with less than we are putting up with. We need to put a stop to this Big Government crap. We need to elect some new leaders that aren't some government shoe-in.
We need to stop being silent and make our voices heard. The more I dive into the thoughts of those who created this nation, the more I understand where we are getting off.
February 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams