who hotly deny it. Nov. 21 1957, N.Y. Times (could be ’54).
Thomas Jefferson
I place economy among the 1st & most important virtues, & public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt we must be taxed in our meat & drink, in our necessities & in our comforts, in our labor & amusements. If we can prevent the govt. from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them , they will be happy.
Samuel Gompers
O nly resentment is aroused & the end is not gained. Only thru moral suasion & appeal to men’s reason can a movement succeed.
Lord Macaulay to Hon. H. S. Randall—N.Y. (Grandson, Thom. Jeff.), May 23 1857
A s I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress either civilization or lib. must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of govt. with a strong hand, or your rep. will be fearfully plundered & laid waste by barbarians in the 20th century as the Roman emp. was in the 5th; with this diff., that the Huns & vandals who ravaged the Roman Emp. came from without & that your Huns & vandals will be engendered form within your country by your own institutions.
Poem
His horse went dead & his mule went lame,
And he lost 6 cows in the poker game.
Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day
And blew the house where he lived away
An earthquake came when that was gone
And swallowed the land the house stood on
And then the tax collector came around
& charged him up with the hole in the ground.
ON RELIGION
Whittaker Chambers
M y eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear. Those intricate perfect ears the thought passed through my mind—no those ears were not (as the comms. say) created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature. I didn’t know it at the time but God had laid his finger on my forehead.
Thomas Jefferson
T he God who gave us life gave us liberty—can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
George Washington
D espair my fellow countrymen of ever teaching citizenship save on the basis of immorality & abandon all hope of teaching morality on any other foundation than religion for the nation that forgot God has never been allowed to endure.
Patrick Henry
P erfect freedom is necessary to the health & vigor of both commerce & citizenship & both will have freedom concurrently or neither will have it at all.
W e have it within our power to begin the world over again.
T hose who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.
John Dickinson, Signer, Declaration of Independence
I t is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. We have counted the cost of this content & we find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Abe Lincoln
I should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon this footstool if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties which have come upon me, since I came to this place, without the aid & enlightenment of one who is stronger & wiser than all others.
Antigone to the Legislature: Sophocles
Y ou who are mortal cannot change the infallible, unwritten laws of heaven They did not begin today or yesterday, but they are everlasting & none can tell the hour that saw their birth. I would not from fear of any human edict, incur the God-inflicted penalty of disobeying divine law.
William Penn
I f men will not be governed by God (that is to be honest, truthful, diligent, fair & just to all) then they must be governed by tyrants.
Numbers 6:24–26
T he Lord bless thee & keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee & be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee & give thee peace.
Commandments
T
Thomas Jefferson
I place economy among the 1st & most important virtues, & public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt we must be taxed in our meat & drink, in our necessities & in our comforts, in our labor & amusements. If we can prevent the govt. from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them , they will be happy.
Samuel Gompers
O nly resentment is aroused & the end is not gained. Only thru moral suasion & appeal to men’s reason can a movement succeed.
Lord Macaulay to Hon. H. S. Randall—N.Y. (Grandson, Thom. Jeff.), May 23 1857
A s I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress either civilization or lib. must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of govt. with a strong hand, or your rep. will be fearfully plundered & laid waste by barbarians in the 20th century as the Roman emp. was in the 5th; with this diff., that the Huns & vandals who ravaged the Roman Emp. came from without & that your Huns & vandals will be engendered form within your country by your own institutions.
Poem
His horse went dead & his mule went lame,
And he lost 6 cows in the poker game.
Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day
And blew the house where he lived away
An earthquake came when that was gone
And swallowed the land the house stood on
And then the tax collector came around
& charged him up with the hole in the ground.
ON RELIGION
Whittaker Chambers
M y eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear. Those intricate perfect ears the thought passed through my mind—no those ears were not (as the comms. say) created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature. I didn’t know it at the time but God had laid his finger on my forehead.
Thomas Jefferson
T he God who gave us life gave us liberty—can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
George Washington
D espair my fellow countrymen of ever teaching citizenship save on the basis of immorality & abandon all hope of teaching morality on any other foundation than religion for the nation that forgot God has never been allowed to endure.
Patrick Henry
P erfect freedom is necessary to the health & vigor of both commerce & citizenship & both will have freedom concurrently or neither will have it at all.
W e have it within our power to begin the world over again.
T hose who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.
John Dickinson, Signer, Declaration of Independence
I t is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. We have counted the cost of this content & we find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Abe Lincoln
I should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon this footstool if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties which have come upon me, since I came to this place, without the aid & enlightenment of one who is stronger & wiser than all others.
Antigone to the Legislature: Sophocles
Y ou who are mortal cannot change the infallible, unwritten laws of heaven They did not begin today or yesterday, but they are everlasting & none can tell the hour that saw their birth. I would not from fear of any human edict, incur the God-inflicted penalty of disobeying divine law.
William Penn
I f men will not be governed by God (that is to be honest, truthful, diligent, fair & just to all) then they must be governed by tyrants.
Numbers 6:24–26
T he Lord bless thee & keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee & be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee & give thee peace.
Commandments
T
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