I have always been told that if someone has said it better to quote them instead. The following is a soon to be comprehensive list of notable quotes from founding fathers and notable figures who knew what America was about and how to keep it that way:
One thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. . . . It is in violation of the traditions of America.
-Words of FDR regarding the New Deal later repeated by Reagan
It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work– work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back.
-Ronald Reagan
The United States has helped Europe to win the First and Second World Wars. It twice raised Europe from postwar destruction – twice – for 10, 20, 30 years it has stood as a shield protecting Europe while European countries counted their nickels to avoid paying for their armies (better yet, to have none at all), to avoid paying for armaments, thinking about how to leave NATO, knowing that in any case America will protect them . . . The United States has long shown itself to be the most magnanimous, the most generous country in the world. Wherever there is a flood, an earthquake, a fire, a natural disaster, an epidemic, who is the first to help? The United States. Who helps the most, and unselfishly? The United States.
-Laureate Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
