Wise Words

-THE FALLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF
AMERICAN FOUNDING WISDOM, AND
POLITICAL WISDOM IN GENERAL, THAT ARE
NOT REPRESENTED IN
ACADEMIA OR IN OUR MSM-

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Reagan Quotes
-ReaganFoundation.org









A Time for Choosing (Video)
- Ronald Reagan - 1964

ReaganFoundation.org

Milton Friedman - Greed

The Wealth of Nations

-Adam Smith

Constitutional Interpretation Quotations
-WeStillHoldTheseTruths.org



As we listen to those on the Left (Progressives) continue to propagate the notion that the Constitution (a contract between the American people and their government) is living and breathing (i.e. politicians and judges have the authority to interpret it as they see fit) it is necessary to remind the citizenry that such a practice renders us Constitution-less.

Without a Constitution we become a people under government rule, rather than a people who set rules for government.

Progressives will tell you the Constitution is too old to be understood, that it's out of touch with modern man, that the founders intended it's meaning to be mutable or unfixed in order to meet the needs of the time.

After reading these quotes by James Madison (the author of the Constitution) and other founders, you can know FOR CERTAIN that the Progressives are dead wrong.

The simple fact that the founders inserted an AMENDMENT PROCESS (Article 5) into the Constitution - alone - proves the living and breathing notion false:

Article V - Amendment

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

My favorite quote regarding inerpreting the Constitution is by James Madison:

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers. If the meaning of the text be sought in the changeable meaning of the words composing it, it is evident that the shape and attributes of the Government must partake of the changes to which the words and phrases of all living languages are constantly subject. What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense. And that the language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founder, will I believe appear to all unbiassed Enquirers into the history of its origin and adoption.







'Mark Levin - Alinsky's Rules for Radicals' (Part 1 of 3)










Were You Taught Any of These Quotes in U.S. History Class When You Were In School?

(PAST TO PRESENT)

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. - Declaration of Independence

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter  for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection  against the government. -Ayn Rand

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -Ayn Rand

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. -Ayn Rand

By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. -Adam Smith

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. -Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. -Adam Smith

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it. -Adam Smith

Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy? Franklin responded, A republic, if you can keep it.
- After the Constitutional Convention

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -James Madison

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
-James Madison

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. -James Madison

In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. -Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. -Thomas Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. -Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -Thomas Jefferson

Gaurd with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! - Patrick Henry

...who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers. -George Mason

No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

- State Gazette (Charleston), 1788

While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.

- Rev. Nicholas Collin, 1789

... of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trail by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.

- James Monroe

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone...the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour. -George Washington

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. -James Madison (Federalist Papers #45)

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. - Thomas Jefferson

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions. - James Madison

With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. -James Madison in letter to James Robertson

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

- James Madison criticizing an attempt to grant public monies for charitable means

As the essential principle of his [Muhammad’s] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated. - John Quincy Adams

…that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. -Thomas Jefferson

While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it. -Frederick Douglass, ex-slave, abolitionist, orator, and publisher

...is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course none of us are greedy; its only the other fellow who’s greedy.Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.



The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. -Milton Friedman

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think – excuse me, if you will pardon me – do you think American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? Is it really true that political self interest is nobler somehow than economic self interest? You know I think you are taking a lot of things for granted. Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us? Well, I don’t even trust you to do that. -Milton Friedman

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

-Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

-Ronald Reagan

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. -Ronald Reagan

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
-Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan

The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.

-Ronald Reagan

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

-Ronald Reagan

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

-Ronald Reagan

It is old-fashioned, even reactionary to remind people that free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. -Ronald Reagan

Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.
-Ronald Reagan

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. -attributed to Mark Twain

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is...by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare attempt. -Thomas Jefferson on the our Judicial Branch of government

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.

Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. -Ronald Reagan

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal*, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

-Alexis de Tocqueville

(*Liberal in Tocqueville’s time meant non-authoritarian or limited government. The politics of a Liberal in Tocqueville’s time resembled today’s Conservatism.)

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.  -Alexis de Tocqueville

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -Albert Einstein

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. -Patrick Henry

We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot. –Henry Morgenthau, F.D.R’s Treasury Secretary

Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. –Abraham Lincoln

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.

Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - Liberty and Tyranny. -Abraham Lincoln

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

-Abraham Lincoln

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. -John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. -John Adams

If you are not a liberal at 20 you have no heart If you are not a conservative at 40 you have no brain. -Winston Churchill

Do you think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -Ayn Rand

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. -Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. -Ayn Rand

Communism and environmentalism—we are talking about two ideologies that are structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralist master-minding of our fates. They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat, how to travel, what we can do and what we cannot do. There is a huge similarity in this respect. -Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of Environmentalism. -Czech President Vaclav Klaus

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their Own hands; they may a point teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision for the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit of the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions for the general welfare.
-James Madison, Author of the U.S. Constitution

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. -Thomas Jefferson

When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. -Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
-Thomas Jefferson

If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments.

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. -Thomas Jefferson

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

-Thomas Jeferson

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt. - John Adams

My Words

Beware of those who operate
under the veil of Compassion.


I agree that we should not hate Jihadists;

We should destroy them.

Racism has no race.

Peace as a national security strategy

will bring us to pieces.

 

Gandhi suggested the Jews defeat the Nazis with passive resistance.

If only the British Imperialists were the extent of the problem for the Jews

- 6 million more Jews would have survived WWII.  

The hatred towards Bush regarding the WMD "lie" implies that Saddam was being honest about what he has never been honest about before.

Europe’s Anti-American elements are due to an inferiority complex.

You think it’s bad now? Just imagine if the US wins a World cup.

Did you notice those who called the Iraq war a failure with-in a year of engagement, were and remain beholden to the UN agenda - which has been a failure for 50 years ...and counting?

B. Franklin said Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, which implies that those who would give up a little temporary Liberty, to purchase Essential Safety, deserve both Liberty and Safety.

Israel's unavoidable bombing of civilians in order to protect itself from Islamo-terror, is condemned by Europe. Where are the condemnations coming from Europe against the US, for bombing 100 thousand German civilians in order to save Europe from the Nazis?

Israel remains highest on Islam's crusade list for one reason; as a result of Islam’s central fervent belief in the demise of the Infidel and in the conquest of his lands. Israel is the spiritual capital of Judao-Christianity, thus it is the spiritual epicenter of the infidel. If you believe there is any other root cause behind the so called Middle East crisis, you are an enabler of the Islamic crusade.

Some said terrorist recruiting had increased as a result of the Iraq war.

Ya...just as terrorist recruiting had increased as a result of Jews drinking the blood of Palestinian children - right? Obviously we don't need to give Islamo-Fascists more reason to hate us. They will conger up reasons on their own.

 
Since when is war 

and peace mutually exclusive?

The left has such wonderful reasons

for seizing your liberty.

Question those who

question authority as well.

The Constitution enforces rights,

not what is right.

Racism is straight forward.

There’s nothing reverse about it

 Liberals are so focused on their causes

that they couldn’t care less about the effects.

Compassion can’t be legislated.

Democrats are CON-passionate.

OXY-MORON: Pro-Choice Liberal

Liberal: Stay out of my bedroom!

Conservative: I was looking for my wallet!

Have you heard of the 2^nd Amendment?

It’s in-between the 1^st and 3^rd.

If only Bill Clinton stuck it to Osama

instead.

11^th Commandment: Thou Shall not be a Democrat

If Love is blind,
why would you want it to be our national security policy?

Hope is for those without Liberty.

Missing from Obama's family dictionary:

Liberty, Property Rights, War on Terror

Conservatives are loyal opposition because they want what's Best for our Country. Liberals create opposition in spite of what's Best for our Country.

The rights of the individual IS the common good. Get it!?

The left’s power structure is dependent on the existence of two types of psychological conditions within the citizenry. They need a large portion of the masses to feel deep shame for who we are, and to feel overwhelmed with guilt for what others don't have.
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The other part of their power structure needs another large segment of the masses to feel enraged and helpless in response to their so called oppression and exploitation by those who are shamed and guilt ridden.

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This keeps both segments of society in a constant state of agitation and conflict. It keeps both sides feeling vulnerable to the other while feeling dependant on the cult of Liberalism which peddles the narrative of this mythical struggle beteen the so called classes while offering both classes their only hope of earthly salvation.

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But unknown to many, the remedy is the very cause of their disease.

Progressivism is Marxism one step at a time.

As a matter of human nature or natural law – man will always pursue his self-interest, but a free-market system – by default – channels this self-interest to the benefit of the public good better than any other system in that the manifestation of one man’s self-interest is hinged upon his success in supplying for the demands of his fellow man. The public good is an effect even though it is not the cause. (The wisdom here is Adam Smith's and Milton Friedman's. I just wanted to put their teachings in my own words)