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  - Ecc 3:11.

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Conservative Quotations

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen".
-- Samuel Adams

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that menial lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
-- Thomas Paine

"What is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"You cannot help men permanently by doing what they could and should do for themselves. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence"
-- Abraham Lincoln

"We have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- President John Adams

"Respect for religion must be reestablished. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of public officials must be curtailed. Assistance to foreign lands must be stopped or we shall bankrupt ourselves. The people should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence."
-- Cicero, 60 B.C.

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"All cruelty springs from weakness."
-- Seneca

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
-- H. L. Mencken

"No public man can be just a little crooked."
-- Herbert Hoover

"Blacks are equally racist, not only against their own race, but against white people also. No race of people has a monopoly on goodness in America. You and I have far more in common than not, because we bleed, we laugh, we cry, we get happy, we lose loved ones, we mourn, we come together in tragedy. Those are the things that bind us as human beings."
-- Armstrong Williams, black talk-show host

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we remove from them the conviction that those liberties are a gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this one by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, providence punishes national sins with national calamities."
-- George Mason, father of the Bill of Rights

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
-- Patrick Henry

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the ten commandments of God.
-- James Madison, cosigner of the Constitution

"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principals of Christianity will change the face of the world."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"We need God to be our friend and our ally. We need to keep God's concurring aid. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable an empire can rise without his aid? We've been assured in the sacred writings, that except the Lord keep the city, they labor in vain that build it."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and his favor."
-- George Washington

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers and in wealth and in power as no other ever has, but we have forgotten God. We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace and too proud to pray."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"It is the duty of all nations as well as of men to own a dependance upon the over-ruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blessed whose god is the Lord."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Providence has given to us the choice of our rulers, and it is the duty as well as the interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
-- John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

"I am nothing. Truth is everything."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
-- John 8:32

"Our task and our duty must be to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God, for we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill and the eyes of all are upon us."
-- John Winthrop

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means are we to fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military power to step across the country and crush us? Never. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it cannot and it will not come from abroad. If danger ever reach us, it must spring up from amongst us. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and its finisher as a nation of free men, we will live through all time, or die by suicide."
-- Abraham Lincoln