"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

"[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." -- Thomas Jefferson-Letter to Judge William Johnson

"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?... Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?... Let history answer this question." -- Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural Address

"If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree." --Michael Crichton

"A government can be compared to our lungs... Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe... It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness." --- Lao-Tzu

"The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf... And it is my earnest prayer that we may so conduct ourselves as to merit a continuance of those blessings with which we have hitherto been favored." --George Washington

" There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us...We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening...If we lose freedom here [in America], there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." -- Ronald Reagan (October 27, 1964)

"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business ...frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite." --Ronald Reagan

"There are three reasons to own a gun. To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face." - Krusty the Clown

"To sit back hoping that some day, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping that he will eat you last -- but eat you he will." --Ronald Reagan

"And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance?... I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men... And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" -- Benjamin Franklin

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -- Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Matthew 6:33,34)