One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
Ron PaulTags: politics income-tax taxes constitution founding-fathers illegal-taxes ron-paul tax
I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas JeffersonTags: government corporations founding-fathers
Give me liberty or give me death."
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
Tags: liberty freedom history death revolution american-revolution founding-fathers revolt
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas JeffersonTags: liberty freedom america founding-fathers thomas-jefferson
For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and truth then formerly we have been acquainted with.
John WinthropTags: christianity america community founding-fathers
The answer to 1984 is 1776
Alex E. JonesTags: liberty freedom democracy 1984 constitution founding-fathers bill-of-rights orwell 1776
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
David MazzucchelliTags: america usa slavery taxes founding-fathers revolutionaries british founders
In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.
Joseph J. EllisTags: history founding-fathers witnessing
What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.
James MadisonTags: religious-freedom founding-fathers american-values not-an-apology
The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.
Rachel MaddowTags: war america military constitution founding-fathers
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