Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
My only hope of salvation is in the infinite, transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry
Governor of Virginia, Patriot
This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

J. Edgar Hoover

"...We cannot defeat Communism [Islamic-fascism] with Socialism, nor with secularism, nor with pacificism, nor with appeasement or accommodation...a 'soft' attitude toward Communism [Islamic-fascism] can destroy us." - J. Edgar Hoover [my additions]

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

George Washington

"A free people ought to be armed." - George Washington

John Adams

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge of the people.”
~ John Adams

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan - "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 for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men actually were free."

Barry Goldwater

"We sit by impotently while Congress seeks to improvise solutions to problems that are not the real problems facing the country, while the government attempts to assuage imagined concerns and ignores the real concerns and real needs of the people." - Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960. Sound familiar? Things never seem to really change. We can make lasting change any time that the people are willing to rise up, take action, and insist upon adherence to our Constitution.

James Madison

"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - James Madison, Federalist #51

Mark R. Levin

"As the word 'liberal' is, in its classical meaning, the opposite of authoritarian, it is more accurate, therefore, to characterize the Modern Liberal as a Statist. - Mark R. Levin

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan rightly said “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 for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men actually were free.”

Ludwig von Mises

"The fundamental objection advanced against the practicability of socialism refers to the impossibility of economic calculation. It has been demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a socialist commonwealth would not be in a position to apply economic calculation. Where there are no market prices for the factors of production because they are neither bought nor sold, it is impossible to resort to calculation in planning future action and in determining the result of past action. A socialist management of production would simply not know whether or not what it plans and executes is the most appropriate means to attain the ends sought. It will operate in the dark, as it were. It will squander the scarce factors of production both material and human (labour). Chaos and poverty for all will unavoidably result." - Ludwig von Mises

Lysander Spooner

"Taking a man’s money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman. Neither the numbers engaged in the act, nor the different characters they assume as a cover for the act, alter the nature of the act itself." - Lysander Spooner

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story on The Constitution

"It is to be interpreted, as all other solemn instruments are, by endeavoring to ascertain the true sense and meaning of all the terms and we are neither to narrow them, nor to enlarge them, by straining them from their just and natural import, for the purpose of adding to, or diminishing its powers, or bending them to any favorite theory or dogma or party. It is the language of the people, to be judged of according to common sense, and not by mere theoretical reasoning. It is not an instrument for the mere private interpretation of any particular men. The people have established it and spoken their will; and their will, thus promulgated, is to be obeyed as the supreme law."

James Madison

"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive energy." - James Madison, Federalist #10

Alexander Hamilton

"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #49

Cato - George Clinton

Remember, O my friends! the laws, the rights,
The generous plan of power deliver'd down,
By your renown'd Forefathers;
So dearly bought, the price of so much blood!
O let it never perish in your hannds!
But piously transmit it to your children. - Cato (George Clinton) Anti-Federalist

Ronald Reagan

He said this to students as Moscow State University in 1988: "The key is freedom-freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication....People do not make wars; governments do. And no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, economic advantage, for ideology. A people free to choose will always choose peace." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Gun Ownership - Makes Us Safer

I believe that the Right to Bear Arms is a fundamental right. It could have been included in the First Amendment of the Constitution, but, was deemed important enough to have its own amendment, the 2ND, giving Americans the right to bear a firearm. During the American Revolution, there was the Continental Army. These were the career service men who served the colonies. Militias were formed among the citizens who were farmers, shopkeepers, etc. They were formed as needed. But among the militia, the Minutemen were formed; an elite group that were specially trained and had to be ready at a moment's notice. These militia, minutemen weren't provided firearms by the Army, but were required to bring their personal firearms that they used for defense against the animals in the wild, Indians, lawlessness, and for hunting. The fact that the people were armed helped win the Revolution and start our great nation. So the right to bear arms is a reason we have our Liberties in the first place.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville said, "I have a passionate love for liberty, law, and respect for rights. I am neither of the revolutionary party nor the conservative....Liberty is my foremost passion."

Leonard Read

Leonard Read was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946. He espoused libertarian/conservative thought, standing alone in a wilderness of collectivist utopian socialism, with very few allies at the time. He believed that education was a key. He believed, then, that "there are so few persons on earth who understand and can explain socialism's opposite, which is the free-market, private ownership, limited government philosophy." Has it changed much? I don't think so. We're still ignorant of our history, our economics; needing intensive education on both. If we lose our freedoms, I believe we'll trace it back to when we allowed education to not teach our fundamental political and economical principles.

Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini said, "Ideas rule the world and its events. A revolution is the passage of an idea from theory to practice. Whatever men say, material interests never have caused, and never will cause a revolution." The TEA PARTY REVOLUTION should be based on ideas, people together sharing their ideas in free expression, mobilizing with these ideas like cloves of fire ablaze alive in each of us.

Abraham Lincoln

"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names-liberty and tyranny." - Abraham Lincoln, 1864 This is printed on the back of the jacket of Mark Levin's book, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.

Joseph Story

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Joseph Story, A Familiar Exposition of The Constitution Of The United States. Story was the youngest ever appointed as a Supreme Court Justice. His book is one of the most important books ever written on American constitutional interpretation. The quote is from the end of that book. It is as revelant now as it was when it was originally published in 1840, probably more now. I highly recommend the Conservative Book Club edition. I will be quoting him from time to time in posts to come. He is a beacon that shines on the real truth of our Constitution, dispelling the liberal cloud of darkness that hangs over it today.

I will be showing, as many great quotes as i can find, here on my blog. My attempt to pass on the history of right like-minded people.

Daniel Webster

"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster

James Wilson

"Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." - James Wilson