Quotes for July 4th

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government

.-Edward Abbey

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe

-John Adams

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

-John Quincy Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

-Samuel Adams

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression

-Alabama Declaration of Rights section 35

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

-Winston Churchill

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free

-Charles S. Darrow

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

-Justice William O. Douglas

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.

-Ben Franklin

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

-Barry Goldwater

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

-Germaine Greer

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

-Andrew Johnson

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty

-John F. Kennedy

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls

-Wayne LaPierre

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

-Richard Henry Lee

The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

-Abraham Lincoln

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

-James Madison

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

-Thomas Paine

Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on them to do the same.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

-Ronald Regan

Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books

-Jimmy Stewart "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

-Dorothy Thompson

...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men

-Voltaire

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

-George Washington

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

-Daniel Webster

Obama doesn't like oppressed people

I always felt that one of America's best qualities was that it was that we spread the hope of liberty to all oppressed people. We showed that the common man could throw down the shackles of oppression to form a government of the people. We stood up to the most powerful nation(twice) and beat them. We are the first country in history that has not used our superior armies to conquer foreign nations. We have stood up to tyrants throughout history before they could conquer the world, and when we couldn't(or wouldn't) stand up we gave aid to our oppressed brothers and sisters. We started VOA(voice of America) to get our message of freedom and liberty to oppressed nations. Maybe this is a Frank Capra-ish view, but it is my view. The last 2 weeks however America has changed, thanks to the Obama administration.

First was the Iranian election. For those of you that don't know how Iran works, here's a brief rundown. The supreme leader(Khamenei) has the final say over all matters, he decides if the person elected is the one that is best for Iran's(and more importantly HIS) ideas. After the June elections Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His opponent Mousavi and his followers cried "foul"! They took to the streets in the 100's of thousands. There were brutal crackdowns on these peaceful protests that included the now infamous killing of a young woman. After a week of protests, killings and beatings our President finally spoke to the people of Iran to give them hope by saying to the government of Iran "stop all the violent and unjust actions against their own people" Wow that's pretty harsh, what's more interesting is he made this weak statement after being pressured by his own staff to make a statement. Nothing saying America will stand with the oppressed, or anything else to give support to the Iranian people.

Now lets look at Honduras. The president (Manuel Zelaya) wanted to become a dictator by being allowed to be president longer than the constitution says. The supreme court and congress of Honduras said no to this, however he wasn't going to let his dreams of a dictatorship rest. The congress contacted the military to "get rid" of the president. Now here's the interesting thing. The military arrested the president and took him to the airport to go to Costa Rica. After doing this the military gives power BACK to the congress! They in turn vote in an interim president, who is from the same party as the ousted president! The interim president says the January elections will go on as planned and he WILL NOT run for president. This has to be the most peaceful and democratic coup of all times! When was the last time you heard of a coup that the military didn't want to control the country, and that congress put the same party back in power? Now here's how Obama reacts. He says that Zelaya is the democratic president and the coup was illegal! He does however have some people that back him on this, most notably Chavez, Ortega and the Castro bros. That's some good company for an American president to have. Take that Honduras how dare you oust a would be dictator!

What does this say to our neighbors? America will no longer stand with the just and right, and will stand with dictators and tyrants! Sorry world Obama doesn't care about your right to freedom and liberty.

Minnesota elects a comedian, and I'm not laughing!

Yesterday Norm Coleman conceded the election in Minnesota. After 8 months of recounts, and court room drama, Al Franken is now the junior senator of Minnesota! This means that King Obama now has complete control of both houses of Congress. With the cap and trade bill coming up in the Senate in a couple weeks, there is a better than good chance that the capitalist system we have all enjoyed all our lives will be gone overnight. We will be paying anywhere from 100-300% more in utilities. Not to mention prices for everything else will rise to help companies pay for the strangling yoke of cap and trade. Fraud will run rampant, as the government will decide who gets the "coupons". Fake businesses will pop up selling their "coupons" to other business that are in need of them or face fines from Uncle Sam. Other companies will realize its easier to just move outside the United States to escape restrictive government in the private sector. Smaller business that don't have this option will be forced to close. Either way millions will be out of jobs. All of this(and more) just for some pseudo-science that is global warming.