Quotations

A News and Opinion Journal ~ Published in Erie County, Pennsylvania

Quotations

"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."
--George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like
sheep to the slaughter."
--George Washington

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."
--John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787

"I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall
hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!"
--John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, November 2, 1800 (First night in the White
House)

"Independence forever."
--John Adams, last public words as a toast for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1826

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.
But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their
ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."
--John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our
liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair,
virtuous, and independent elections."
--John Adams, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797

"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift
of their chief magistrate."
--Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America , 1774

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is
attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will
diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will
by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
--Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President
or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the
country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he
fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the
truth-whether about the President or anyone else."
--President Theodore Roosevelt

"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
-- John Wesley

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the
expense of everyone."
--Frederic Bastiat

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
--Jesus Christ

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