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Even the children here [in America] draw in the love of liberty with the very air they breathe. General Gage, British general during the Revolution.
If you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe. Walt Disney film maker, war veteran, creative genius.
We shall not fight alone. God presides over the destinies of nations. The battle 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! Give me liberty of give me death! Patrick Henry, American Statesman and patriot, March 23, 1775.
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. Joseph Smith Jr., first prophet and president of the Mormons, presidential candidate.
In the beginning of a change. The patriot is a scare man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain, author.
He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, author 1782.
We are proud still to call ours a young nation. Hence we forget what we should remember: Our nation under the present Constitution has had a longer life unchallenged and unchanged by violent rebellion than any great nation on earth except Great Britain. Norman Thomas.
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body. James Truslow Adams, author 1932.
We will cling to the Constitution of our country, and to the government that reveres that sacred charter of freemen's rights; and, if necessary, pour out our best blood for the defense of every good and righteous principle. Brigham Young, 2nd Mormon President and Prophet, settler of the American West.
The moment I heard of America, I loved her; the moment I knew she was fighting for her freedom, I burnt with a desire of bleeding for her; and the moment I shall be able to serve her at any time, or in any part of the world, will be the happiest one of my life. Lafayette, French Marquis, friend of Washington.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale, just before he was hung for being an American spy. September 22, 1776.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Alfred E. Smith
In all patriotic enterprises the services of one woman are equal to those of seven men, and a half. Dr. Clarke.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public office save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. Theodore Roosevelt.
The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson.
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood: The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty! Are you free? Andrew Ford.
If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. Samuel Adams.
I thank God for America. Walt Disney film maker, war veteran, creative genius
Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty. Joseph Smith Jr., first prophet and president of the Mormons, presidential candidate.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Abraham Lincoln.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Abraham Lincoln.
Speaking of Slavery: I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world--enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites--causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty--criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting there is no right principle of action but self-interest. Abraham Lincoln.
Should it please God to grant me health and long life, my greatest enjoyment will be to behold the prosperity of my country; while the belief of my fellow citizens that I have been the happy instrument of much good to my country and to mankind will be a source of unceasing gratitude to Heaven. George Washington, father of our country.
Both houses and slaves were bequeathed to us by Europeans, and time alone can change them; an event, sir, which, you may believe me, no man desires more heartily than I do. Not only do I pray for it on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee 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, father of our country, July 1798.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almigthy God. George Washington, father of our country.
There has never been a time when I have not been anti-slavery. Abraham Lincoln.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley in 1862. Horace was insisting that Lincoln free all the slaves immeadiatly. Lincoln told him that he had to first save the Union.
If the Negro is a man, why, then, my ancient faith teaches me that all men are created equal, and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another. Abraham Lincoln, 1854.
"Nothing is more certainly written in
the book of fate than that these [the Negro] people are to be
free." Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography 1821.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to govern any other. James Adams.
Of all the habits and dispositions which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. George Washington, American General, 1st president of the Union and father of our country.
To maintain a republic requires virtue and simplicity among all orders and degrees of men. Virtue must underlay all institutional arrangements if they are to be healthy and strong. The principles of democracy are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. John Adams, 2nd president of the Union.
The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln.
Those who hold tolerance as their highest virtue do so because they have no others. G.K Chesterson.
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Thomas Jefferson.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and relgious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. George Washington.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. he therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into an office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. Sam Adams, father of the Revolution.
This nation can never be conquered from without. If it is ever to fall it will be from within. President Abraham Lincoln.
We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison, father of the US Constitution.
From my first youth onward, I was a seaman and have so continued until this day Wherever on the earth a ship has been, I have been. I have spoken and treated with learned men, priests, and laymen, Latins and Greeks, Jews and Moors, and with many men of other faiths. The Lord was well disposed to my desire, and He bestowed upon me courage and understanding; knowledge of seafaring. He gave me in abundance, of astrology as much as was needed, and of geometry and astronomy likewise. Further, He gave me joy and cunning in drawing maps and thereon cities, mountains, rivers, islands, and harbours, each one in its place. I have seen and truly I have studied all books-cosmographies, histories, chronicles, and philosophies, and other arts, for which our Lord unlocked my mind, sent me upon the sea, and gave me fire for the deed. Those who heard of my enterprise called it foolish, mocked me, and laughed. But who can doubt but that the Holy Ghost inspired me? Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America.
Let my heart, gracious God, be so affected with Your glory and majesty that I may fulfill these weighty duties which you require of me. Again, I have called you for pardon and forgiveness of sins and for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ offered on the cross for me. You gave your Son to die for me and have given me assurance of salvation. George Washington, American General, 1st president of the Union and father of our country.
In the days of our contest with Britain, when we were aware of danger, we had daily prayers in his room for Divine protection. Our prayers were heard, and they were graciously answered. Have we now forgotten this powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing upon our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed with business. Benjamin Franklin, at the Constitutional Convention, July 28, 1778.
The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. Very soon after His death it became muffled up in mysteries, and has been ever since kept in concealment from the vulgar eye. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the Union, author of the Declaration of Independence, believer in religious freedom.
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and posterity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied, enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our nation sins, and pray clemency and forgiveness upon us. Abraham Lincoln, president of the union, freer of the slaves.
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion. God gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are a gift of God. Thomas Jefferson.
It is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another. And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I have raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood. Revelation of Jesus Christ according to Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr.
The real democratic American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that everyone shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him. Henry Ward Beecher.
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. Emerson.
An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith among nations to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such an ordering, and retains its ancient faith. Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the Union, hero of World War II.
The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun. Joseph Smith Jr., first prophet and president of the Mormons, presidential candidate.
God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics. Charles Finney.
Take all of this book [the Bible] upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier and better man. Abraham Lincoln.
My ancient faith teaches me that "all me are created equal"; and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another. Abraham Lincoln.
There has been much talk today about the separation of church and state in American society. The phrase separation of church and state does not appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution even though the militant leftists of our country love to pretend that it does. The phrase first appeared in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a Baptist pastor from Dayton, Connecticut. These same leftists always quote Jefferson in part but never quote him in full. Here is his complete statement: "The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state. That wall is a one dimensional wall. It keeps government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government." Thomas Jefferson.
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?
In regard to this Great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it. Abraham Lincoln.
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. John Quincy Adams.
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of The Reedemer of mankind... this is a Christian nation. U.S. Supreme Court, 1982: Church of the Holy Trinity vs. the United States.
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of god, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. Samuel Adams, father of the Revolution.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. If they have that, and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if they have not this, and I had given them all this world, they would be poor. Patrick Henry, in his will.
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 notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin.
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou will keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. George Washington's prayer for the nation
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, (9 Jan 1816)
These are what are called Revolution principles. They are the principles of Aristotle and Plato; of Livy and Cicero, and Sydney, Harrington and Locke; the principles of nature and eternal reason; the principles on which the whole government over us now stands. John Adams
The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun. Joseph Smith Jr., first prophet and president of the Mormons, presidential candidate.
[We] have been sent into life at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live. How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opporturnity of making an election of government, more than of air, soil, or climate, for themselves of their children! When, before the present epoch, had three millions of people full power and a fair opportunity to form and establish the wisest and happiest government that human wisdom can contrive? John Adams.
The Constitution is unquestionable the wisest ever yet presented to men. Thomas Jefferson.
[The Constitution is] the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen. John Adams.
If I were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of security in the republic? The answer would be, the inviolable respect for the Constitution... It is by this, in a great degree, that the rich and powerful are to be restrained from enterprises against the common liberty. Alexander Hamilton.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us no make it a blank paper by construction (loose interpretation.) Thomas Jefferson.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. James Madison The Federalist Papers, No.45
Let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. Sixteenth American Jurisprudence Second Edition, Section 177.
All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression. Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1959.
Washington is the mightiest name of the earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. Abraham Lincoln, February 22, 1842.
Lincoln, with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ. John Hay, his private secretary.
I honour Julia Ward Howe, the author of the "Battle Hymn" and of "The Flag." She was born in the city of New York. I could well wish she were a native of Massachusetts. We have had no such poetess in New England. Emerson
I think I knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these... His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading armies of his country successfully through an arduous war for the establishment of its independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example... The soundness of [his judgment] gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me that he considered our new Constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined that the experiment should have a fair trail, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it... Thomas Jefferson, speaking of George Washington.
First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen...second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life. Light Horse Harry Lee, speaking of George Washington.
[George Washington is] a man of more solid judgment and information than any man on the floor. Patrick Henry, speaking of Washing as a congressional delegate from Virginia.
There are more examples of honest humor in George Washington's letters than can be found in those of any one of the Founding Fathers except Benjamin Franklin. John C. Fitzpatrick, eminent Washington scholar.
In Lincoln's company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin or my unpopular color. Lincoln was not only a great president but a great man. Frederick Douglass, former slave - abolitionist.
If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of [Americans is] to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is human brotherhood or it chaos. Max Lerner, author.
America is one nation where everyone is presumed innocent -- until the president offers him a job. Wildlife Harvest.
America is a fortunate country; she grows by the follies of our European nations. Napoleon Bonaparte.
If all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present a loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loop-hole is larger than the dungeon itself. Heine.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. Norman Thomas.
America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind -- the laboring or lower class -- to raise them to self-respect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and the great duty of self-government; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those nine-tenths of the human race who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank. Daniel Webster, statesman.
Casting off a king may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time become familiar and agreeable; and until independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted by the thoughts of its necessity. Thomas Paine, from Common Sense, 1775.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John the Beloved.
In general, we have been too generous in the gift of office and power ... to men who do not understand the genius of America and who have little awareness of the backgrounds of the American way of life.... Most of us will agree that it makes little difference where or when a man was born if he had this vivid sense of American history, if he has learned to put Country above Party,... if freedom means more than personal security and if he refuses to tolerate appeasement of tyranny as the price of peace. McIlyar H. Lichliter.
Joy is a fruit that Americans eat green. Armando Zegri.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union, hero of the Civil War.
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance. We have seen, indeed, once within the record of history, the complete eclipse of the human mind continuing for centuries... Even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work for them. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821.
All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.
This is an optimistic nation and I am an optimist. If I wasn't I would have never left the ranch in the first place. You know there is a simple definition for an optimist and a pessimist There's a story that I can't resist telling. A man that had two sons was very disturbed about them. One was a pessimist beyond recall. The other was an optimist beyond reason. He talked to a child psychologist who made a suggestion. He said I think we can fix that. He will get a room and fill it with the most wonderful toys any boy ever had. We will put the pessimist in and when he finds out that they are for him. He will get over being a pessimist. Then the father said what will you do about the optimist? Well, he said, I've got a friend whose got a racing stable and they clean out the stalls every morning. He said I can get quite an amount of that substance. We will put that in another room. When the optimist, whose seen his brother get all those toys, is shown into that room, he'll get over being an optimist. Well they did just that and they waited about five minutes and opened the doors. The pessimist was sitting there crying as if his heart would break. He said I know somebody is going to come in here and take these away from me. Then they went down to the other room and they opened the door. There was the optimist happy as a calm, throwing that stuff over his shoulder just as fast as he could. So they asked him, "What are you doing?" And he said, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!" President Ronald Reagan.
The American people are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville.
In this world, if a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley.
America never lost a war or won a conference. Will Rogers.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. Abraham Lincoln.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin.
A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty's Teeth. George Washington.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison.
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. Benjamin Franklin.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity 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; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men. Samuel Adams.
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty. Benjamin Franklin.
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence. C. A. Beard.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand... It never did... and it never will... Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglas.
If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst; there is nothing which will so soon produce a speedy and honorable peace as a state of preparation for war. George Washington, father of our country.
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