We base our conclusions on the foundations laid by our forefathers.  Below are only a few of the jewels cut for us by the original American freedom fighters as well as other famous past and present quotes on government, liberty and freedom.  

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” R. Reagan

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold, is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” T. Jefferson

“The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” M. Thatcher

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” V. Lenin

“A government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take it all away.” T. Jefferson

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” W. Churchill

“My new comrade.” D. Medvedev of Obama

“If this be treason, make the most of it.” P. Henry

“Give me Liberty or give me death.” P. Henry

“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” R. Reagan

“Man is not free unless government is limited.” R. Reagan

“One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.” R. Reagan

“Let us be sure that those who come after us will say of us…that in our time we did everything that could be done, we finished the race, we kept them free, we kept the faith.” R. Reagan

“We don’t have a trillion dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion dollar deficit because we spend too much.” R. Reagan

“The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” R. Reagan

“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right, is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last-but he will eat you.” R. Reagan

“Never spend money you don’t have.” T. Jefferson

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.” T. Jefferson

“If our house is on fire…we must extinguish it.” T. Jefferson

“The government that governs least, governs best.” T. Paine

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” T. Jefferson

“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.” T. Jefferson

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” T. Jefferson

“These are times that try men’s souls.” T. Paine

“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” G. Washington

“The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.” G. Washington

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” G. Washington

“Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem.” R. Reagan

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” A. Lincoln

“Suppose you were an idiot…and suppose you were a member of Congress…but I repeat myself.” M. Twain

“Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not an increase of it.” W. Wilson

“Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.” G. Vidal

“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.” R. Limbaugh

“I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.” R. Reagan

“No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” R. Reagan

“The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” R. Reagan

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” B. Franklin

“We will not waiver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.” G. Bush

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it’s preservation.” Gen. D. MacArthur

“A patriot must always by ready to defend his country against his government.” E. Abbey

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace.” T. Paine

“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.” FDR

“The liberties of a people never were, not ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” P. Henry

“The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw a few bread crumbs. They will follow you forever.” J. Stalin

 “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers 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 everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1816

 “A wise and frugal government… 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, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

 “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

 “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” — Thomas Jefferson

 “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” — James Madison, 1794

 “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.” — John Adams, 1787

 “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” — James Madison

 “[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” — James Madison

 “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” –James Madison, 1792

 “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison, 1788

 “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” — Benjamin Franklin

 “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. 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

 “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin

 “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.
There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams

 “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams

 “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.” — Benjamin Franklin

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Possible Tea Party Sign Slogans

 Stimulus/Economy:

 Liberty: All the Stimulus We Need

Your Mortgage is Not My Problem

Born Free-Taxed to Death

Don’t Stimulate-Liberate

You Are Not Entitled to What I Have Earned

Our Congress is a Toxic Asset

The Change in my 401K is not the Change I Need

If You Think Health Insurance is Expensive, Wait until it’s FREE!

Free Markets, Not Freeloaders

No Taxation without Deliberation

You Keep the CHANGE, I’ll Keep My LIBERTY

Got Pork?

Capitalism-RIP

This Sign is Not Worth the Dollar I bought it With

Obamanomics: Chains We Can Believe In!

Taxation With Representation Ain’t so Hot Either!

I Read as Much of the Stimulus Bill as my Congressman Did (child)

You Can’t Spend Your Way Out of Debt!

Your “Fair Share” is Not in My Wallet

Hey Congress! Before You Raise Our Taxes-Pay Your Own First!

Give Me Liberty-Not Debt!

$11 Trillion and Climbing-Now THAT”S a Lot of Change!

Bailouts and Debt=Fiscal Child Abuse

Can We Bankrupt the Country? Yes We Can!

Equal Opportunity, Not Equal Distribution

How About a 90% Tax on Congressional Salaries?

I Am Not Your ATM

I’ll Pay For My House If You Pay For Yours

Keep Your Bailout…I’ll Keep My Freedom

Repeal the Legislative Pork, or Your Bacon is Cooked!

Stimulate Business, Not Government

You Can’t Multiply Wealth By Dividing It

Special Interests Get the Pork, We Get the Beans!

No Public Money For Private Failure!

If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Taxes!

Obamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty

Personal Responsibility Not Collective Responsibility

If Washington is the Seat of Government, Then the Tax Payer is the Pants Pocket

Hey, I Want the Tax Break Turbo Tim Got!

It Looks Like the American Taxpayer Will Be The FIRST Natural Resource to be Completely Exhausted

Haste, Waste, and Fear are NOT an economic plan

My Budget Can’t Afford Your Deficit

Pay Congressional Salaries from the Budget Surplus

I Thought we had Already Solved the Issue of the “Intolerable Acts” in 1776

In America We Don’t Redistribute Wealth, We Earn It

You Can’t Change the Meaning of Debt

It’s not a Stimulus, it’s a Stickup

Help! The Taxpayer has fallen and Can’t Get Up

Reduce the Government Footprint

Printing Money Emits Greenhouse Gases

Can You Say Quadrillion?

Stimulus: The Audacity of Dopes

Where are the Jobs?

The Only Thing We Need to Cap and Trade is Government Control and Spending

Can We Bankrupt the Country? YES WE CAN!

Don’t Spread My Wealth…Spread My Work Ethic

WE THE PEOPLE, Are Fed Up!

Politically Oriented:

VOTE: Impress Your Friends, Scare Your Enemies

Congress Represents ME? I Must Be Really Corrupt!

Your Silence Means Consent

Hope and Change = Rope and Chains

Take Back the Republic

T=Taxed
E=Enough
A=Already

Save America Now…Send Pelosi Home-ECONOMY Class!

Your Choice: 1776 or 1984?

Democracy, Not Pelosi’s Monarchy

3 Simple words: WE THE PEOPLE

Join Our Cause-Restore the Republic

Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

Revolution is Brewing

Party Like It’s 1773!

Back Off Barney

Dump Dodd

Punt Pelosi

I Would Rather Live Under a Bridge than Under Socialism

TEA is Only the Beginning

Do You Know What Happened in 1773? WE DO!

Don’t Tread On Me

You Can’t Fix Stupid, But You Can Vote Them Out

What Would The Founding Fathers Do? TEA PARTY!

Independence Not Dependence

Just a Spoon Full of Sugar Helps the Blue Pill Go Down!

The Constitution, the Other Document They Never Read

This is My Country, and I’m Not Surrendering

100 Million Deaths in the History of “Social Reform”

The Reaper is Cheaper

Conservatism is Alive, Well, and Right!

Atlas Will Shrug

Go Galt!

Government For the People, By the People, not Against the People

Dude, Where’s My Country?

233 Years to Build the Republic, 7 Months to Destroy It

Insanity is Trying Socialism Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results

Obamacare = Rationed Care

This Isn’t a Left-Right Thing, It’s a Right-Wrong Thing

STOP! You’re Starting to Scare George Orwell

Tyranny: Making Offers We Cannot Refuse

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You-JFK

Socialism = Misery Shared Equally

Obamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty

Apathy Kills Liberty

If You Can’t Read the Bill, Stay Off the Hill

Step Outside the Flock and Recognize the Wolves

Your Servants Have Become Your Tyrants

When you Elect Clowns Expect a Circus

There is no “ism” in America

Is This What You Meant by Community Organizing

Stop the Insani-TEA!

Socialism Is Incorrect Change

Teleprompters Against Socialism!

We Have the Tyrants-We Need the Patriots!

The Tea Party Movement is the Big Stick

Silent Majority No More!

Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reasons.

Obama’s Change List:
-loss of wealth
-loss of property
-loss of freedom
-loss of liberty
-loss of dignity

 “So How’s That Hope and Change Working Out For You?”

OBAMANISM: Equality in Poverty