Some of my favorite quotes....

I've been posting so much about food and such, I've totally neglected my political friends. So to make up for it, here are some of my FAVORITE quotes...Enjoy!


“What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s 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 & 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 & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”

– Thomas Jefferson writing to William S. Smith, John Adams’ secretary, discussing Shays’ Rebellion in Massachusetts, November 13, 1787

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~~Irving Kristol

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Unknown

I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.~~Benjamin Franklin

"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence”~~Charles Austin Beard

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. ~~Thomas Jefferson

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

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~~Alexis de Tocqueville

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin