07-02-2008, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Birmingham, AL
Age: 17
Posts: 288
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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin Franklin
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
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 - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Thomas Jefferson
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay
Benjamin Franklin: Helped Draft the Declaration of Independance
Thomas Jefferson: Wrote the Declaration Of Independance
Alexander Hamilton/James Madison/John Jay: Wrote the Federalist Papers
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Both you and I know that the Republican base has largely neglected the ideologies and philosophy of the Founding Fathers and the ancient Republicans. The Republican party which is in existence at the moment is in no way representing Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay views on how this nation should be ran. Ron Paul is probably the closest thing to a original Republican thats in the Republican party and he a racist Constitutionalist.
Apart from the current day Republicans being so different from the Founding Fathers, I can care less what the Found Fathers thought or their philosophy. The Founding Fathers were hypocrites. They talked about human rights and dignity, but at the same time they slaved Africans and displaced millions of Native Americans. They committed genocide to sum it up. The Founding Fathers actions contradicts the Constitution and if they were still living today they should be tried for treason.
Last edited by Kenny; 07-02-2008 at 05:08 PM.
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