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Free Speech And The House Of Representatives PDF Print E-mail
Written by Lady Logician   

I recently began subscribing to a newsletter that is a daily reflection of the Founding Fathers thoughts and beliefs. I got one late last week that really hit home with this blogger.

"Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."

-- Benjamin Franklin (writing as Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July1722)

Reference: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Labaree, ed., vol. 1(27)
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The Natural Progress of Things PDF Print E-mail
Written by Thomas Jefferson   

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

—Thomas Jefferson
 
Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You PDF Print E-mail
Written by John F. Kennedy   

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. —John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
 
Politics PDF Print E-mail
Written by Groucho Marx   

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. —Groucho Marx
 
A Government That Is Big Enough To Give You Everything PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ronald Reagan   

A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have.

—Ronald Reagan (attributed)
 
Time To Check And Reverse The Growth Of Government PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ronald Reagan   

Our government has no power except that granted it by people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people.

All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the states; the states created the Federal Government.

Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work — work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

—Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1989)
 
Government Is The Problem PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ronald Reagan   

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

—Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1989)
 
Money From The Public Treasure PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alexander Tyler   

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.