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Historic Quotes
Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech To Major League Baseball
Babe Ruth's Farewell To Major League Baseball
Will Rogers Plan to End the War
Woodrow Wilson's Radio Address
CONGRESSIONAL OATH OF OFFICE:
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God."
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal." - Thomas Jefferson
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." - Patrick Henry
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife until she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town. - O. Henry (1862-1919)
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Oliver Wendell Holmes in "Old Ironsides"
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. - George M. Cohan
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it. The United States Supreme Court.
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. - Rev. Jesse Jackson
'Twas red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fit in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. - Julia Ward Howe in "The Flag"
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self-government, and the sovereignty of the individual. - Robert Ingersoll
Our flag is our national ensign, pure and simple, behold it! Listen to it! Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate. - Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Senator from Massachusetts
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public office save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. -
Theodore Roosevelt
"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved." - Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution evidently contemplated no taxes as direct taxes, but only as Congress could lay in proportion to the census. - U.S. Supreme Court ; Hylton v. United States (1796)
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. - Daniel Webster
A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson
The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. - John Adams
"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of god, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - Samuel Adams was the Father of the American Revolution
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. - James Madison The Federalist Papers, No.45
The tax power has been used by the national government as a weapon to take over, one by one, subjects traditionally within the orbit of state police power. - Chief Justice Taft
Let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson
"Income," as used in the statute should be given the meaning so as not to include everything that comes in. The true function of the words "gain" and "profit" is to limit the meaning of the word income - So. Pacific v. Lower, 238 F 847
Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; 'thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. - Samuel Adams , 'Rights of the Colonists," Nov. 1772
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. - Sixteenth American Jurisprudence Second Edition, Section 177
Income Tax: A tax on the yearly profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices. - Black's Law Dictionary Second Edition, 1891
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty's Teeth." - George Washington
The legal right of the taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes or altogether avoid them by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. - Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465
We shall cause the United States to spend itself to destruction. - V. 1. Lenin
I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. If they have that, and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if they have not this, and I had given them all this world, they would be poor. - Patrick Henry in his will
The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight. - John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination
We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks...They are, not government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers... - Senator Louis T. McFadden (for 22 years Chairman of the U.S. Banking & Currency Commission)
The best yardstick of the effectiveness of the fight against Communism is the fury of the smear attacks against the fighter. - J. Edgar Hoover
This nation can never be conquered from without. If it is ever to fall it will be from within. - President Abraham Lincoln
Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise 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 , 1st Inaugural Address
It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation. - Calvin Coolidge
As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. - John Locke , "Of Civil Government" 1689
The common curse of mankind - folly and ignorance. - Shakespeare
An Unconstitutional Act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. - U.S. Supreme Court Norton V. Shelby County 118 U.S. 425, 442
One of the main purposes for the control and power of the Establishment media is to keep the masses deceived and ignorant about their rights and oppressions of their rights. - Charles Weisman
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson
Taxation is the art of plucking the goose, so as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert , Minister of Finance under Louis XIV
All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void. - U.S. Supreme Court Marbury v. Madison, 2Cranch 5 U.S. (1803)
Man will ultimately be governed by Godor by tyrants. - Ben Franklin
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison
All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. - Benjamin Franklin
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. - Chief Justice John Marshall
All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. - Jonathan Swift
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid. - Benjamin Franklin
The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations. - Adam Smith , "The Wealth of Nations"
Property: Rightful dominion over external objects; ownership; the unrestricted and exclusive right to a thing; Property is the highest right a man can have to anything. - Black's Law Dictionary Second Edition, 1891
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty. - Benjamin Franklin
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men." - Samuel Adams
"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood: The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty! Are you free?" - Andrew Ford
"If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free." - Pol Anderson
"The great object is that everyman be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry , in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution
"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." - Sarah Brady
"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns." - Senator Howard Metzenbaum
"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." - C. A. Beard
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article [the Second Amendment] in their right to keep and bear their private arms." - Trence Coxe in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution", under the pseudonym" A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 18 June 1789
"Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower house; these altogether respect personal liberty..." - Senator William Grayson of Virginia in a letter to Patrick Henry
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing upthe ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand... It never did... and it never will... Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglas (1857)
"What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." - Rep Elbridge Gerry , Mass., I Annals of Congress at 750, 8/17/1789
"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts ". - Thomas Jefferson
"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
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann W. Von Goethe
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"The American's Creed I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation and many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it ,to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its Flag, and to defend it against all enemies." - William Tyler Page
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