Today's Hate Speech

The wit and wisdom of our founding fathers have become today’s hate speech.

Any truth which offends is deemed hateful by the liberal malcontents.

So, Patriarchs, let it rip and let the Left flip.

On Abuse of Power!

“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”

– James Madison

“It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.”

– John Adams

On Bad Policies!

“That Men Find Ways to persuade themselves to believe any Absurdity, to submit to any Prostitution, rather than forgo their Wishes and Desires. There Reason becomes at last an eloquent Advocate on the Side of their Passions and [they] bring themselves to believe that black is white, that Vice is Virtue, that Folly is Wisdom, and Eternity a Moment.”

– John Adams –

On Banks!

“A bank that issues paper interest is a pickpocket or a robber.”

– John Adams

“The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.”

– James Madison –

On Buyer Beware!

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Christian Nation!

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

– Patrick Henry –

On The Constitution!

“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

“A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

On Defense!

“Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

“There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.”

– George Washington –

On Despotism!

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Divine Providence!

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I’ll tell you friend, He reigns from above.”

– Thomas Paine –

On Duty!

“Never confuse motion with action.”

– Benjamin Franklin –

On Environmentalism!

“The people are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Equal Rights!

“What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

“Equal laws protecting equal rights . . . the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”

– James Madison –

On Error & Truth!

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Free Market & Equal Opportunity!

“Property is the fruit of labor . . . property is desirable . . . is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

– Abraham Lincoln –

On Freedom!

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

– Thomas Paine –

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Freedom of the Press!

“I am for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On God & Government!

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

– George Washington –

On Government’s Purpose!

“The principles of government are founded in the rights of man . . . It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all . . . The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural right . . . These are the rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

– George Washington –

“That government governs best that governs least.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Gun Rights!

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Honesty!

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

– Thomas Paine –

“I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Imbalance of Power!

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is a danger of oppression.”

– James Madison –

On Imminent Domain!

“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural rights.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Industry!

“It is a great truth that industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Language!

“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship.”

– St. Augustine –

“Language is perhaps the strongest, perhaps most enduring link which unites men.”

– Alexis de Tocqueville –

On Liberty!

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

– George Washington –

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

– Benjamin Franklin –

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

– Thomas Paine –

“Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Maximizing Natural Resources!

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

– Theodore Roosevelt –

On Military Preemption!

“Whatever may be the provocation, however important the object in view, and however necessary dispatch and secrecy may be, still the declaration must precede the preparation, and the enemy will be informed of your intentions, not only before you are equipped for an attack, but even before you are fortified for a defense. The consequence is too obvious to require any futher delineation.”

– James Wilson –

On Morality!

“Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.”

“Political interest can never be separated in the long run from moral right.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Patriotism!

“Citizens, either by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has the right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”

– George Washington –

“The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced from it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Politics and Religion!

“Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.”

– James Madison –

On Preferred Judges!

“Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers.”

– John Jay –

On Prelude to Tyranny!

“The government of a nation may be usurped by the forcible intrusion of an individual into the throne. But to conquer its will so as to rest the right on that, the only legitimate basis, requires long acquiescence and cessation of all opposition.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Preserving The Union!

“Possessed of the blessing of self-government and of such a portion of civil liberty as no other civilized nation enjoys, it now behooves us to guard and preserve them by a continuance of the sacrifices and exertions by which they were acquired, and especially to nourish that Union which is their sole guarantee.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Private & Public Life!

“I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Private Property!

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

– John Adams –

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”

– James Madison –

On Promoting Wealth!

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

On Redistribution of Wealth!

“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association–the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Religion!

“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.”

– Benjamin Rush –

“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.”

– John Adams –

On Representative Government!

“Whenever our affairs go obviously wrong, the good sense of the people will interpose and set them to rights . . . No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Revolt!

“No degree of power in the hands of government will prevent insurrections.”

“If pride of character be of worth at any time, it is when it disarms the efforts of malice.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Social Justice!

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”

– James Madison –

“If the question before justices of the peace relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Success and Failure!

“I had rather temporarily fail with a cause that must ultimately succeed, than to temporarily succeed with a cause that must ultimately fail.”

– Woodrow Wilson –

On Taxation!

“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed–that is, extension of the revenue.”

– Alexander Hamilton –

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

– John Marshall –

On The Ten Commandments

“We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

– James Madison –

On Thanksgiving!

“Whereas, it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas, both the Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

– George Washington –

On Tyranny!

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

– Thomas Jefferson –

On Universal Peace!

“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.”

– James Madison –

On Veteran Support!

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.”

– Theodore Roosevelt –

On War and Peace!

“There never was a good war nor a bad peace.”

– Benjamin Franklin –

“A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.”

– James Madison –

On Welfare!

“The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”

– James Madison –

 

The America we love is at stake.