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