"Tyranny Founding Fathers" Quotes . Top 34 Short Quotes About "Tyranny Founding Fathers"

"Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Pro Gun #Total War #Democracy

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."

--- Unknown

#Unjust #Libertarian #Federalist

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Economy #Tyranny Founding Fathers #Citizens

"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin"

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Prize #Ignorance #Education

"It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Ignorance #Tyranny Founding Fathers #Tyranny

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

--- Thomas Paine

#Resolution #Little Minds #Motivational Keep Going

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."

--- Thomas Paine

#Religion #American Founding Fathers #Tyranny Founding Fathers

"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Tyranny Founding Fathers #Growing #Useless

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Trust #Libertarian #Democracy

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Redistribution Of Wealth #Robber Baron #Government Politics

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Peace #Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Private Property #Money #Politician

"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Truth #Constitution #Great Libertarian

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Anti War #Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Religion And Government #Economy #American Founding Fathers

"I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Clergy #Religion #Change

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Peace #Anti War #Government Politics

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#People #Us Constitution #Possession

"[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Legislature #Action #Tyranny Founding Fathers

"To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Us Constitution #Possession #Fields

"I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Clergy #Religion #American Founding Fathers

"The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Private Property #People #Economic Order

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#People #Education #Evil Spirits

"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Redistribution Of Wealth #Robber Baron #Government Politics

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

--- Samuel Adams

#Peace #Countrymen #Asks

"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

--- Samuel Adams

#Countrymen #Down And #Patriotic Gun

"[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

--- Patrick Henry

#People #Us Constitution #Constitution

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

--- Patrick Henry

#Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun

"The great object is that every man be armed."

--- Patrick Henry

#Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

--- Patrick Henry

#Us Constitution #God And Country #Total War

"I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."

--- George Washington

#Christian Persecution #Zealous #God And Country

"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."

--- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #Just One

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

--- James Madison

#Fear #Fighting #Anti War

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

--- James Madison

#People #Encroachment #Tyranny Founding Fathers

34 "Tyranny Founding Fathers" Quotes