"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.  It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government."

-- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837

"Policies are many; principles are few. Policies will change; principles never do."

--John C. Maxwell

 "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction."

--  Ronald Reagan

"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order."

-- Henry Kissinger

(Click here to contact your representatives to block the North American Union)

"Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders."

-- George Bush Sr.

"Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

-– Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

"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."

-- The Declaration of Independence

"There can be no legal tender in this country...but gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle...of the very highest importance."

-- Daniel Webster

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution -- taking from the federal government their power of borrowing."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold."

-- Thomas Edison

"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution."

-- Benjamin Franklin

“The only way to keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.”

-- Spencer W. Kimball

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master!”

-- George Washington (The Red Carpet, p. 142)

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."

-- James Madison

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

-- John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
      
-- John Quincy Adams

I believe we have a responsibility to seek knowledge and not just do something because someone else says so. This quote by Hugh Nibley supports this principle.

"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Now I tell you it is time the people of the United States were waking up with the understanding that if they don't save the Constitution from the dangers that threaten it, we will have a change of government."

-- Joseph Fielding Smith, Conference Reports, April, 1950, p. 159

"We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

-- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798; Address to the military

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature."

— James Garfield, US President, 1877

"Climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world”

"No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits" to global warming policies.

-- Christine Stewart, Canadian Environmental Minister, Calgary Herald, 14, December, 1998

"To capture the public’s imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest."

There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

-- Karl Marx

"The purpose of the office of the president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it"

-- Douglas Adams

"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 tactics, 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

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

-- Albus Dumbledore