Founding Fathers & Patriot quotes

[Outlaws]

I made these but thought some people might like them. I am gonna put them on a webpage on my website, but feel free to distribute/use them as you wish. I am gonna make a few more too.

 

[xd9fan]

love em

 

[pcosmar]

Very nice, they would be great school posters. If only more people believed them.

 

[Logistics]

Excellent! More please!

 

[hqmhqm]

How about this one

To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve," Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.

"Our efforts have been crafted carefully to avoid infringing on constitutional rights, while saving American lives."

A true patriot and guardian of our constitutional rights. NOT! I wish he could have said that to the faces of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. They would have slapped him silly.

 

[Outlaws]

 

[MrTuffPaws]

None of the founding fathers would be a republican or a Democrat.

 

[FM2Wildcat]

"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possesion 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

 

[Louisiana Carry]

Here's a thread I started on the subject at GT:

http://glocktalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=612449

Turned out interessting.

 

[Axman]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."--Benjamin Franklin

 

[Zedicus]

Here's a few I did up.

More to come Later

 

[Ieyasu]

Clean-up time for some of you guys...
http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/general/BogusFounderQuotes.htm
http://guncite.com/gc2ndbog.html

 

[lamazza]

None of the founding fathers would be a republican or a Democrat.

Jefferson was a republican.

 

[Regolith]

Jefferson was a republican.

Jefferson was a "Democratic-Republican". It lasted until 1820 when it split, with one branch becoming what is the modern day Democratic Party. The modern Republican party didn't appear until the late 1850's.

 

[Polishrifleman]

I don't have the fancy portraits but here are some of my favorites.

People of Principle

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
- John F. Kennedy

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
-- Thomas Paine


"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-- Mahatma Gandhi


"We, the People, are the rightful masters of both the Congress and the Courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who have perverted it."
-- Abraham Lincoln


"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."
~Louis D. Brandeis


"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
~Sinclair Lewis


"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-Richard Henry Lee


"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
-- George William Curtis

 

[Ieyasu]

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
-- Thomas Paine

I'm not ready to say the above quote is bogus, yet, but I'd sure like to see a citation for it. Ie., in which work/paper of his did he make that statement. Looks fishy...

 

[Autolycus]

Here are some quotes I enjoy.

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -George Washington”

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. - Thomas Jefferson”
“We should have a strong president; strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have. - Ron Paul

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - Thomas Jefferson”

“Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism. -George Washington”
“"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Edmund Burke"

“The amount of money and legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans…is an outrage, an imposition, on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy. – William F. Buckley”

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. – Thomas Jefferson”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending to small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson”
“There’s never been a good government. - Emma Goldman”

“That whenever any form of government becomes too destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to abolish it. - Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)”

“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. - Ron Paul

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation – Anonymous”

“A wise and frugal government which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned- that is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson”

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain”

 

[oldsoldier]

Tried to print out that last bunch of quotes, but the printer sure didn't like them even if I did!

 

[rusty bubbles]

Hey- Outlaws- you started a great thread- very inspiring !love the portraits too!
Rusty B

 

[highfive]

Love this thread....thanks

 

[TallPine]

Rather a bizarre (hypocritical) quote from Abraham Lincoln ...

 

[mp510]

sweet!

 

[JohnL2]

Rather a bizarre (hypocritical) quote from Abraham Lincoln

Yes. But Lincoln also said that the Civil War was essentially a peoples contest. There were people for the Union and people opposed to the Union. Thus Civil War.
The U.S. government tried compromise after compromise to placate the Southern states. Slavery was the indirect cause of the war. Armed insurrection against the government was the direct cause of the war.

It's kind of funny. If you take away the historical context; it sounds like ravings of a right-wing wacko.

 

[TallPine]

There were people for the Union and people opposed to the Union.

And sometimes people just want a divorce

 

[Polishrifleman]

Thomas Paine Quote

Ieyasu:

Insert the quote into google and everyone and their mother attributes it to Thomas Paine. If you go to wikiquote you see that it is attributed to him but not sourced. I like the quote but whoever started the evil rumor about Paine should get the nod I guess.