Posts tagged ‘balanced budgets’
- Victory for Rand Paul on May 19, 2010
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." (Voltaire)
"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." (Alexis de Tocqueville)
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." (George Washington)
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." (Ronald Reagan)
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." (Washington)
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." (Reagan)
"George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles." (Unknown)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Jefferson)
"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." (Charles de Gaulle)
"There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen." (Unknown)
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." (Jefferson)