Good Quotes to Ponder

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) , letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

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 (1743 - 1826)

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 (1743 - 1826)

KEEP THE CHANGE... I'LL KEEP MY FREEDOM, MY GUNS, AND MY MONEY"

"DON'T SPREAD MY WEALTH... SPREAD MY WORK ETHIC!"

Work harder: Millions on welfare are counting on you.

Terrorists won't destroy America: Liberals are beating them to it.

Ignore your rights and they'll go away.

"Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either." — Gerald Barzan, humorist

Frederic Bastiat, quotes about Tax:
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Tax:
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Davy Crockett, quotes about Tax:
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Benjamin Disraeli, quotes about Tax:
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection, it is plunder.

Steve Forbes, quotes about Tax:
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!

Benjamin Franklin, quotes about Tax:
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

Thomas Jefferson quotes:
Jefferson still survivies. John Adams

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Letter to James Madison, 1787
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) , First Inaugural Address