As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
~Thomas Jefferson
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
~Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
~Alexander Hamilton
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
~George Washington
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
~John Adams
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.