I believe that our Nation's Founding Fathers were inspired by God when they formed our new Government. The Constitution and The Bill of Rights are inspired documents. The creation of the United States of America has blessed the whole planet. No other government like it existed at the time of its formation. Now liberty spreads throughout the earth. Many other nations have patterned their own constitutions after ours. I think that our Founding Fathers beliefs are still relevant today. I thought I'd post a few great quotes from our Founding Fathers. Its important that we remember the intentions of those men who worked to form this new government."Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -Thomas Paine
"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 "
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin
(Have we not all seen how frighteningly true this is? Wise Mr. Franklin knew the danger we could face)
Our Founding Fathers on The Redistribution of Wealth
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers have acquired too much, in order to spare to others who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equaled industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'to guarantee to everyone of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.' If the overgrown wealth of an individual be deemed a danger to the state, the best corrective is the law of equal inheritance to all [his descendants] in equal degrees; and the better, as this enforces a law of nature, while extra taxation violates it." -Thomas Jefferson
"I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading them or driving them out of it." -Benjamin Franklin
"The Utopian schemes of leveling [redistribution of the wealthy] and a community of goods [central ownership of all the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional." -Samual Adams
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them ohterwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvements, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
"The only encouragements we hold out to strangers are a good climate, fertile soil, wholesome air and water, plenty of provisions and fuel, good pay for labor, kind neighbors, good laws, liberty, and a hearty welcome; the rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue. Lands are cheap, but they must be bought. All settlements are undertaken at private expense; the public contributes nothing but defense and justice." -Benjamin Franklin
(Wow, how far we've come from the public providing only defense and justice... now the public has to provide a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and payments to fictions students and colleges for student loans).
Our Founding Fathers on The Second Amendment
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson"Are we at last brought to such a huiliating and debasing degradation tha we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" -Patrick Henry
Our Founding Fathers were very concerned about the government becoming too powerful. They truly intended for "We The People" to hold the power. The right to bear arms was not only included in the Bill or Rights so that one could defend his own property and life, but so one could defend himself against the government should it become tyrannical.
A Little Liberal Humor
Someone so open-minded their brains fall out
"It isn't that liberals are ignorant; its just that they know so much that isn't so." -Ronald Regan
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