“This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
The foundation of self-government
“We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God.”
Author: James Madison
Wonderful diversity?
“If diversity was such a wonderful thing, why isn’t it Christmas year round for the Indians? I mean, tell me. If diversity is a great thing, the Indians should be happy as clams.”
Author: Jared Taylor
The myth of diversity
“An occasional glance at a newspaper is all it takes to learn that diversity of the kind that is supposed to benefit the United States is a problem wherever it is found. Every large-scale and intractable blood-letting, be it in the Middle East, Ireland, Burundi, or the former Yugoslavia is due to “diversity,” that is to say, people who differ from each other trying to live in the same territory.
“Most of the time, the reasons for discord are not even as salient as race. They can be religion, language, or ethnicity. From time to time, Americans have fought each other for these reasons, but race is the deepest, most constant source of antipathy. Unlike language or religion, race cannot change. Differences between men that are written deep into their bodies will always be a source of friction.”
Author: Jared Taylor
Educating children
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”
Author: John Adams
Going from despotism to liberty
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed.”
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Hyphenated Americans
“Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.”
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Hyphenated Americanism
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.”
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty and justice
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Author: Edmund Burke
Elections cynically viewed
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
Author: H. L. Mencken