Quotes

Herbert Hoover	When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
George Washington	At disappointments and losses which are the effects of Providential acts I never repine, because I am sure the divine disposer of events knows better than we do what is best for us, or what we deserve.
Thomas Jefferson	Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Thomas Jefferson	He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson	If a NATION EXPECTS to be IGNORANT and FREE, it expects what NEVER WAS and NEVER WILL BE
Alexis de Tocqueville	In the end, the state of the Union comes down to the character of the people...I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Thomas Paine	'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Mark Twain	The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.