Favorite quote/speech/saying from the Founding Fathers

[Scanker19]

I also enjoy this opening:


When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

[Circuits]

We must hang together or we shall surely all hang seperately.

[Big Wall]

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Abraham Lincoln.

[glockedandloaded]

"one of the fastest ways to be deemed a domestic terrorist is to quote the founding fathers." Me
this is a great Thread keep em coming

[SAnd]

A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. Thomas Jefferson

No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session. Benjamin Franklin Or Mark Twain

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

A more recent quote-
It isn't that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so. Ronald Reagan

[Jer]

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all" -Teddy Roosevelt

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, will soon have neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin