Founding Fathers Tyranny Quotes

#1. When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. I approach every problem with optimism.

Nelson Mandela

#4. The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

Tiffany Madison

#5. To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Rajneesh

#6. To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.

Henning Mankell

#8. It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.

Sharron Angle

#11. I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

Annie Dillard

#12. Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Brent Musburger

#13. [Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

Patrick Henry

#14. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Tiffany Madison

#15. Three things. Three things are all I'll ever ask of you. Never lie to me, never say anything you don't mean, and always give me your pleasure. It's the only things I'll ever want. ~Grayson Mandrake

Marie Skye

#16. A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. The only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living.

Italo Calvino