This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. Our Founding Fathers created a new form of government that never existed before. It is a Constitutional republic called the American experiment in self-government. Ronald Reagan explained how it works. He said: “Ours…
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Sinful And Tyrannical
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson
To Protect Us From Ourselves
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan
Liberty Once Lost, Is Gone Forever
John Adams said, “But a Constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty once lost, is gone forever.”
Our Rights Come From God
And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebearers fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. – John F. Kennedy