Forum Post: american leader quotes that relate to the movement.
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 2:23 p.m. EST by larocks
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"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe." Abraham Lincoln
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves” – Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (1829–1837).
great quote...
Thanx :) You've posted some good ones too!
need to keep this thread going. maybe the only real thing that has value for some government officials. cause they sure arent listening to the people. maybe they can listen to great men in history. the ones that get me are woodrow wilson. hes the president who enacted the fedral reserve. wish we could find a great leader to emerge from this turmoil. god knows we need it.
I don't think we'll find a leader from the Dems or Repugs. Both have sold their souls to the hightest bidder!
"There is an artificial aristocracy, founded on birth and privelege, without virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendency." TJ
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
"I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should first be those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on them personally." Abraham Lincoln
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin
"The world is not the way they tell you it is." Adam Smith
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." H.L. Mencken
commerce with all nations, alliance with none should be our motto... -Thomas Jefferson-
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. John F. Kennedy
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George Santayana
"There is no such thing as a free press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who would dare to write his honest opinion. The business of the journalist is to destroy truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell himself, his country, and his race, for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks; they pull our strings, we dance; our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes." John Swinton
"Freedom is rarely lost in a single stroke. The danger lies in losing it bit by bit." Dennis Patrick
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." John Locke
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
an uninformed populus is a populus in slavery
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King, Jr
"Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
"Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls." Victor Hugo
"Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasury go dressed in gold and purple." Marcus Porcius Cato - (Roman Statesman - 190 B.C.)
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine
"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war [civil war] is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood ... It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." President Abraham Lincoln
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing." Josiah Stamp
Money is imaginary... Enthusiasm makes the world go round... Dont be mad if you let someone else frame the situation and then realize you were duped.. Due Diligence People!
"Paper is poverty... It is not money, but the ghost of money."
"There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth." Frederick Soddy
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." Patrick Henry
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. Theodore Roosevelt
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow Wilson
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. Rosa Parks
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. Franklin D. Roosevelt
every politician should read this quote before they raise or lower taxes.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. Woodrow Wilson
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.freepatriotism.com
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. – Thomas Jefferson
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin D. Roosevelt
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in. Rosa Parks
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Theodore Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Franklin D. Roosevelt
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. Theodore Roosevelt
All I was doing was trying to get home from work. Rosa Parks
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. Theodore Roosevelt
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. Woodrow Wilson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. Woodrow Wilson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. Theodore Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. Theodore Roosevelt
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. Ernestine Rose
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. Will Durant
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. Theodore Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' Ernestine Rose
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. William Howard Taft
"All the world's problems can be solved in a garden." -- Bill Mollison
A government is for the benefit of all the people. William Howard Taft
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. John L. Lewis
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. Benjamin Franklin
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. John L. Lewis
All Rich people made there money on slaves
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Jefferson Davis
Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy
OWS sign:
The beginning is near.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. John F. Kennedy
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. Benjamin Franklin
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. Thomas Jefferson
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. John F. Kennedy
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Benjamin Franklin
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Benjamin Franklin
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Thomas Jefferson
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. Richard J. Daley
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. Lee H. Hamilton
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. Alexander Haig
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. Thomas Jefferson
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes. Alexander Haig
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. Abraham Lincoln
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. Abraham Lincoln
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. Thomas Jefferson
A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy
A lie cannot live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Careful quoting Lincoln. He also said this:
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
true of what u say. but u must admit he was a great american even if he was a biggot
Lol, I hope you're being sarcastic. Biggot and mass murderer too.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. Karl Radek
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done. Anthony Kennedy
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Thomas Jefferson
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. Karl Radek
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. Oliver Tambo
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. Karl Radek
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. Oliver Tambo
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Marquis de Lafayette
"Those of us who have the greatest ability to pay are not being asked to. I am not keen on being part of the freeloader class." - Bill Collins, former Norwalk CT mayor, earned his wealth in real estate
http://fairsharetaxes.org
"Those of us who have the greatest ability to pay are not being asked to. I am not keen on being part of the freeloader class." - Bill Collins, former Norwalk CT mayor, earned his wealth in real estate
http://fairsharetaxes.org
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. David Icke
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. George Washington
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailments of all republics." - Plutarch, Greek historian, c.100 A.D.
http://fairsharetaxes.org
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. Thomas Nagel
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. Earl Warren
North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending. Mel Watt
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. George Washington
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. Warren Buffett
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. Warren Buffett
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. Warren Buffett
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. Warren Buffett
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. Warren Buffett
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. Calvin Coolidge
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. Grover Cleveland
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. Calvin Coolidge
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Grover Cleveland
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.' - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
To the enablers of the one percent, here is a little wisdom Benjamin Franklin would have us not forget: "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." And always remember: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary [economic] Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. Calvin Coolidge
oct. 20,2011 Gorbachev is killed when his plane is attacked by a Stinger surface-to-air missile in East Germany
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other. - Ronald Reagan
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
"And I can see no reason why anyone should suppose that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still...put to use by reasonable men to reasonable ends, or by madmen to nonsense and disaster." Joseph Campbell, 1969
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robinson
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons. - Bill Clinton
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. - Woodrow Wilson
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. - John F. Kennedy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un- rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the opressing" -Malcolm X
Amen
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. - Richard M. Nixon
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John F. Kennedy
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse Ben Franklin
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think M. L. King Jr
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness M. L. King Jr
"I began my political career in 1936, on a slogan of 'work and wages.' Today, more than half a century later, I;m still a bread-and-butter liberal who believes that every family deserves the opportunity to earn an income, own a home, educate their children, and afford medical care. That is the American dream, and it's still worth fighting for." Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, 1987
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Most bad government has grown out of too much government thomas jefferson
Those who falsely believe that they are free, are the most enslaved. - Goethe
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
What luck for the rulers that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism george washington
“Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.” grover cleveland
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
Wonder if he was talking about bankers
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
“And still the question, "What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?" is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Watterson's solution of it, "Take them out and shoot them," is worthy of attention” Grover Cleveland
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious thomas jefferson
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” Grover Cleveland
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
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
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-
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
I think the first duty of society is justice. Alexander Hamilton
i hope every american can learn fromk this what the movement is about. these leaders have spoken about what is right and what is wrong. if we do not learn from the mistakes and knowledge of our for fathers then we are destined to doom. please i implore each and every person to read these and learn from them. if americans who are politicians can not learn from these quotes then they shouldnt be a politician. please america wake up.
"There is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it." — George W. Bush
please keep this going. everyone should post one comment from an american leader on this forum to keep it up. the more people read and add to it we the people will see the mistakes leaders of the past have seen and done.
word.
repeating mistakes of history all the way through till now is what the government has done. we dont need to understand the mistakes. we just have accept they were mistakes and evolve as humanity in social order. corporations are to large and to controling. we must as people understand that life is precious. not to be ignored. chris rock said "we worship money in america". the value of life for everyone has suffered and given the control to the 1% in america. i am reminded of how in our own country these things happened before and politics are still allowed to make them. our rights are vanished because of social media and the large corporation. they are to big. our rights as americans and our liberty is threatened. we need change. a social evolution in our thinking.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius
"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." -Henry David Thoreau
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution. Thomas Jefferson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson
Whoa.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
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“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history - whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by the small elite."
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." Claire Wolfe
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125
"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 Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler "Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"
"Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19 of them collapsed when they reached the moral state America is in today." Arnold Toynbee
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Henry David Thoreau
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." Polish Proverb
"There is a constituency in the Congress that sees the tax code as a way to do favors for people which is a way to get elected that's not as obvious as actually writing them a check from the American people." Paul O'Neill
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"Most people want security in this world, not liberty." H.L. Mencken
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency ... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." General Douglas MacArthur
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." D.H. Lawrence
"Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people." Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have." Barry Goldwater
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses." Shirley Chisholm
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus
"It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph." Edmund Burke
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." Warren Buffet
"The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" Harry Browne
"If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom." Tom Braun
Give me liberty or (…) never mind!
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." General Omar Bradley
"A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within." Chuck Baldwin
"The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words." The Atlanta Journal
"If a government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws." Noah Webster
"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 6000 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
God love President Lincoln
… and so does Lucifer my dear.
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation ... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." James Garfield
larocks!! These quotes are blowing my mind! Seen some of them before, but the varying voices and their respective times in history are amazing.
"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams
"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity.
Such extension of property is quite unnatural." Thomas Jefferson
Adam Smith: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."
There are 168 hrs in a week. 50 are for sleep. 50 are for work. That leaves 68 hrs in a week for whatever you deem neccesary. A little activism never hurt anyone.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution -- taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." -Thomas Jefferson
"the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles-- the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." -Abraham Lincoln