Uncommon Sense

Corruption is like a cancer

gregory — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:04:43 +0000

“Corruption, like a cancer … eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, floppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.”

Speak out against tyranny

gregory — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:18:11 +0000

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Protecting the country from its government

gregory — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:39:48 +0000

“It is the Responsibility of the Patriot to protect his country from it’s government.”

Commerce Clause

gregory — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:24:51 +0000

“It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather … Continue reading →

Un-Constitutional spending

gregory — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:19:28 +0000

“I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.”

The true danger to liberty

gregory — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:42:11 +0000

“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”

Retaining the blessings of liberty

gregory — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:25:05 +0000

“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

The judiciary

gregory — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:20:27 +0000

“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous.”

Hope versus reality

gregory — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:28:23 +0000

“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”

Obedience and rebellion

gregory — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:31:13 +0000

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”