“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; it is right [to do so]…. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
— G.K. Chesterton

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
— Frederic Bastiat

“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant—they have been cheated; asleep—they have been surprised; divided—the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? … the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it … It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.”
— James Madison

“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

“I respect ordinary thieves more than I respect politicians. Ordinary thieves take my money without pretense. (They) don’t insult my intelligence by proclaiming that they’ll use the money that they steal from me to make my life better.”
— Walter Williams

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the ‘slave state’ disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.”
— Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“A time will come when people will not listen to accurate teachings. Instead, they will follow their own desires and surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.”
— 2 Timothy 4:3

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
— Gen Eisenhower

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
— Ayn Rand

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
–Thomas Jefferson

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
— C.S. Lewis

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed. Lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C.

“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
–Thomas Jefferson

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
— Sam Adams

“The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.”
— G.K. Chesterton

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
— C.S. Lewis

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

“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
— John Adams

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
— John Quincy Adams

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
— Patrick Henry

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
— James Madison