"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

Friday, July 3, 2009

American Independence Day Thoughts...

"When the government has more power than the people, that's TYRANNY. when the people have more power than the government, that's LIBERTY." - Thomas Jefferson


"America is too great for small dreams." -Ronald Reagan


"I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts. " -Ronald Reagan

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

In response to concern over the world's view of the United States regarding its operations abroad:
"You have enemies? Good! That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry

Apprapot to the recent nomination of Judge Sotomayor as Assoc. Justice to the Supreme Court and her penchant for judicial activism:
" They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." - John Adams


"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." - James Madison


God Bless America and thank you to all who have served in defense of It.