John Adams

"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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Thomas Jefferson

"[T]he flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them."

--Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1821

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George Washington

"Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness."

--George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

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Alexander Hamilton

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, 1787

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Benjamin Franklin

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

--Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776

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George Washington

"Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness."

--George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

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George Washington

"Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness."

--George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

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Alex's Dad

"To be early, is to be early. To be on time, is to be on time. To be late, is to be late. To be a tyrannical dilettante, is to be a tyrannical dilettante. Words mean things."

--Alex's Dad

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John Adams

"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."

--John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763


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Marcus Brutus

"Sic semper tyrannis."
-- Marcus Junius Brutus

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Fisher Ames

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."

--Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

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James Madison

"[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787

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James Madison

"[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787

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John Wooden

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive a doer makes mistakes."

John Wooden
UCLA's Men's Basketball Coach, 1948-1975

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Theodore Roosevelt

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

--Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

--Theodore Roosevelt
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James Wilson

"The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it."

--James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790

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George Washington

"No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm."

--George Washington, letter to James Madison, 1786

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Alexander Hamilton

"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments."

--Alexander Hamilton, letter to James Bayard, 1802

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Thomas Jefferson

"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect."

--Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791

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James Madison

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."

--James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1792

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