Alexander Hamilton

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."

--Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

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Benjamin Franklin

"In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself."

--Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771

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James Madison

The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into  tyranny.

--James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788

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James Madison

"If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788

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Benjamin Franklin

"History will also give Occasion to expatiate on the Advantage of Civil Orders and Constitutions, how Men and their Properties are protected by joining in Societies and establishing Government; their Industry encouraged and rewarded, Arts invented, and Life made more comfortable: The Advantages of Liberty, Mischiefs of Licentiousness, Benefits arising from good Laws and a due Execution of Justice. Thus may the first Principles of sound Politicks be fix'd in the Minds of Youth."

--Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749

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John Maynard Keynes: NO! I'm not kidding!!

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens....The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction and does it in a manner that not one man in a million is able to diagnose"

– John Maynard Keynes.

Alexander Hamilton

"To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character."

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 34, 1788

John Stuart Mill

"State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly alike one another...in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body"

-- John Stuart Mill.

James Madison

"In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. ... Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 55, 1788

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Benjamin Franklin

"They are of the people, and return again to mix with the people, having no more durable preeminence than the different grains of sand in an hourglass. Such an assembly cannot easily become dangerous to liberty. They are the servants of the people, sent together to do the people's business, and promote the public  welfare; their powers must be sufficient, or their duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences; so that, having no chance for great places, and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no  triguing or bribing for elections." --Benjamin Franklin, letter to George Whatley, 1785

James Madison

"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty, gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788

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Thanksgiving

"Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations."

--Psalm 100:4-5

Rush Limbaugh

"If you want to make a conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a liberal angry, tell him the truth!"

--Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh

"Only thieves 'give back'!"

--Rush Limbaugh

Broken Clock!

"Dwelling on the negative, simply contributes to its power."

--Shirley MacLaine

Alex's Dad

"To All Politicians: Cut Taxes. Cut Spending. Or find a new job!!" --Alex's Dad