Today is the 222nd anniversery of the signing of our US Constitution at the Philidelphia Convention in 1787. Our current politicians should take time today to sit down and read the Constitution and think about what they are doing. Here are some quotes from those that participated:
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. ... Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
John Adams
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
Thomas Jefferson
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
Samuel Adams
"A free-born people ... may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their ... liberties."
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty after the Boston Tea Party
"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."
Alexander Hamilton
God Bless the USA!
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. ... Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
John Adams
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
Thomas Jefferson
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
Samuel Adams
"A free-born people ... may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their ... liberties."
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty after the Boston Tea Party
"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."
Alexander Hamilton
God Bless the USA!
