Quotes Calling for a Return to Democrat(ic) Principles
In light of the resurgence in the entitlement, big-government mentality embodied in Obamacare, etc., it is instructive to see how far Democrats have strayed from the noble principles of their founder over 200 years ago, and leaders as recently as 50 years ago. Principles they need to return to.
John F. Kennedy: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
Thomas Jefferson (founder of the Democrat Party) quotes:
On the Nanny State: “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.”
On Obamacare & dietary regulations: “Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
On redistribution of wealth & the welfare state: “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
On the March 21 debacle: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Regarding public funding for abortion: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
On government micromanagement of industry & free enterprise: “Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
Is health care a right granted by Obama et al? “A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
On Growth of government:
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“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 the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
“I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
“Most bad government has grown out of too much government.”
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?”
Calls to action:
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Some Others' Quotes:
Crystal Eastman: “A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.”
C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” [note that the greatest evils and genocides occurred under the most idealistic tyrants – Lenin, Hitler, Mao, ....]
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" (proverb)
Ronald Reagan: "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
John F. Kennedy: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
Thomas Jefferson (founder of the Democrat Party) quotes:
On the Nanny State: “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.”
On Obamacare & dietary regulations: “Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
On redistribution of wealth & the welfare state: “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
On the March 21 debacle: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Regarding public funding for abortion: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
On government micromanagement of industry & free enterprise: “Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
Is health care a right granted by Obama et al? “A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
On Growth of government:
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“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 the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
“I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
“Most bad government has grown out of too much government.”
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?”
Calls to action:
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Some Others' Quotes:
Crystal Eastman: “A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.”
C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” [note that the greatest evils and genocides occurred under the most idealistic tyrants – Lenin, Hitler, Mao, ....]
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" (proverb)
Ronald Reagan: "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
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