clipped from: www.jackchambless.com "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"The inevitable progression of things is for the government to gain ground and for liberty to yield."
Thomas Jefferson
"We have the right, as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so as to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
David Crockett in Not Yours to Give
"I do not believe that Washington should do for the people what they can do for themselves through local and private effort."
John F. Kennedy
"Government is a broker in pillage and every election is an advanced auction on stolen goods."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson