"The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not fit for public trust."

-Millard Fillmore

"The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive branch to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government."

- William Henry Harrison 

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

- Calvin Coolidge 

"A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of it's contents."

- Herbert Hoover

"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger."

- Andrew Jackson

"What is right and what is practical are two different things."

- James Buchanan 

"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge."

- James Wilson

"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." 

- Noah Webster 

"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and suffering, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence."

- Joseph Story

"You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And... that all civil rights and the rights to hold office were to be extended to person's of any Christian denomination."

- Roger Sherman

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."  

"No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor."

-Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

-Benjamin Franklin

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." 

-Benjamin Franklin 

"The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches."

- John Witherspoon

"A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust."  

"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry, we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free..."

- Dr. Joseph Warren 

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." 

- Patrick Henry 

"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source  -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth.  They are not annexed to us by parchment and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, with out taking our lives."

- John Dickinson 

"Posterity! you will never know, how much it cost this present Generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."

- John Adams

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"

- Thomas Paine 

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

- Thomas Jefferson   

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man... The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people."

-Samuel Adams 

"The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well-being of society"

- Richard Henry Lee

"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends."

- James Monroe  

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."

- Clara Barton 

"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty."

- Dr. Benjamin Rush 

"The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others."

- John Jay 

"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!"

- Henry Ward Beecher  

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." 

- Alexander Hamilton

The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775