Happy Birthday to Our Country!

Here are some interesting quotes to read on various subjects concerning our nation. These quotes have been researched thoroughly and are 100% accurate.

On The Constitution
“When government fails to protect rights or itself threatens them, the people have a right and duty to alter or abolish it.” (This is in the Declaration of Independence). -THOMAS JEFFERSON – 3rd President of the United States

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN – Founding Father

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.” - WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON – 42nd President of the United States

On our Freedoms
“It may be impracticable that our distinctively American experiment of individual freedom should go on.” - DAVID HILL – Senator, NY - Democrat

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW – Writer

“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.” - JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU – Philosopher

“We must stop thinking of the individual, and start thinking about what is best for society.” - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON – NY Senator and former 1st Lady, Democrat

“The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.” - WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON – 42nd President of the US - Democrat

“Liberals have this pathetic little habit of dealing with people as members of groups, rather than as individuals. The Constitution and our Bill of Rights grant no rights whatsoever to any groups. All rights are conferred on individuals. There is an individual, not a group, right to freedom of speech. Ditto for freedom of religion.” - NEAL BOORTZ – Writer and columnist

“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.” - H. L. MENCKEN – Writer

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” - DAVID HUME – Philosopher

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why would we let them have ideas.” - JOSEF STALIN – Russian Communist Dictator

“You know the one thing that is wrong in this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.” - WILLIAM CLINTON – 42nd President of the US, Democrat

“All government, of course, is against liberty.” - H. L. MENCKEN – Writer

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and that the natural tendency is for government to grow and liberty to yield.” - THOMAS JEFFERSON – 3rd President of the US

On Liberalism
“The liberals who run these big cities always have their excuses. They will tell you they are not getting enough federal aid. With liberalism, the problem is always somewhere else. But the ruse is running thin. Liberalism, socialism, and utopianism make empty promises to the world, but offer only a dead end. Capitalism, though not promising prosperity to all, greatly improves the lot of most and offers opportunity to all. Liberalism suggests that all answers lie in government intervention.” - RUSH LIMBAUGH – Conservative radio talk show host

“The liberal crusader is focused on the negative. He is trying to stamp out all evil with a coercive hand of big government, and winds up destroying much of what is good in the process.” - EDWIN FEULNER – President of the Heritage Foundation

On Capitalism versus Socialism/Communism/Democrat Policies
“They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.” - FREDERIC BASTIAT – Philosopher

“I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become Communists.” - JANE FONDA - Actress

“Long live Fidel Castro, long live Che Guevara!” - JESSE JACKSON – Reverend and Civil Rights Leader

“A society that puts equality – in a sense of economic equality of outcome – ahead of freedom, will end up with neither equality or freedom.” - MILTON FRIEDMAN – Economist

End of quotes.

Source of quotes: A book written by Nik Faldo called “Liberal Quicksand”, as yet unpublished. This book was started in 2002 and finished in 2004.

What is scary to me is the quotes of Bill Clinton and past liberal icons. They spoke moderately as compared to the liberals in control today. When you have the current president of the United States of America speaking of the wonders of socialism/communism – to a group of world socialists and communists – and they basically tell him “your policies don’t work”, we have a problem.

Happy Birthday to the best country the world has ever seen. I pray it is not one of – or the last one.