Kingston/Rhinebeck Tea Party of N.Y.

George Washington

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. 

Ronald Reagan

Our federal tax system, is in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, it reeks with unjustice and is fundamentally un-American.....it has earned a rebillion and it's time we rebelled.

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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 

 

George Washington 

 

 

 

 Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is a force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

 

 

 

 

 

 Thomas Paine

 

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

 

 

             

 

 

 Daniel Webster

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happend once in 6,000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution.!

 Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

Peter Marshall

........May freedom be seen not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to please to do what is right. May it ever be understood that our liberty is under God and can be found no where else.....To the extent America honors Thee, wilt Thou bless America....

Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must befought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, orone day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.

Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel Kercheval

Date: July 12, 1816

 

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

 

                                   

Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address

 Date: March 4, 1801

 Still one thing more, fellow citizens—a wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

Date: June 12, 1823

 

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

 William Penn

 

If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.

 

 

 President Calvin Coolidge

 

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

 

 

 Alexander Hamilton

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

 

 

Alexander Hamilton

 

Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

 

 

Noah Webster

Founding Father and author of the first English dictionary

Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God (Exodus 18:21).....If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted....If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

 

 James Madison

To the Gereral Assembly of the State of Virginia

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of the goveernment, far from it. We've staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity...to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

 At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22,  "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us."