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Civic Quotes

Latest Update: Monday, 04 April, 2022

“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​

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

John Adams​

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“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​

 

“The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.”

Daniel Webster​​

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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

Frederick Douglass​

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“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”

Patrick Henry​

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“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen.”

Patrick Henry

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“Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!”

Sam Adams​​

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“If we are too weak to take charge of our own morality, we shall not be strong enough to take charge of our own liberty.”

Calvin Coolidge​

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“Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master".

Dwight D. Eisenhower​

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“If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with.”

Ronald Reagan​

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“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

Ronald Reagan​

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“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.”

Frédéric Bastiat​​

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“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Frédéric Bastiat​​

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'Our founding fathers believed that the real leaders in this republic were not presidents, governors, or mayors – but the citizens". 

Michael Quinn Sullivan 

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“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”

Elmer Davis​

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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Thomas Jefferson​

 

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that justice cannot sleep forever.”

Thomas Jefferson 1781

 

 “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Wendell Phillips 

 

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Patrick Henry​

Government​

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead.

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“The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”

Ronald Reagan​

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“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

James Madison​

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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

Milton Friedman

Freedom of Speech

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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On February 24, 1836, William Travis penned his famous letter from the Alamo:

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World-

Fellow Citizens & compatriots-

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna - I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man - The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken - I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls - I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch - The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country - Victory or Death.

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