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This is a clip of Ron Paul speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives, on May 22, 2007, about the state of our nation and what a true Patriot really is. This is the most comprehensive, accurate and thorough analysis on the present condition of the United States of America that I have seen since the turn of the century. This is a 24-minute clip, and it could be the most important 24 minutes you ever spent watching a Presidential candidate.

JAMES MADISON QUOTES

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded."

"The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties."

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."

"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."

"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."

"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."

"When in doubt, don't."

"Where liberty is, there is my country."

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES

"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."

"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."

"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."

"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

"We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience."

"When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour."

THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"Information is the currency of democracy."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."

"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

"Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

"That government is best which governs the least."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."

THOMAS PAINE QUOTES

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."

"That government is best which governs least."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."

PATRICK HENRY QUOTES

"Give me liberty or give me death."

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"

"The great object is that every man be armed."

"Fear is the passion of slaves."

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."

"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Regarding the advice of the Founders of our country, and the last quote above, I thought it fitting to add into this site another American hero, who, like Ron Paul, knew the war in Iraq was illegal. In our recent time, two individuals -- Patrick Daniel Tillman and Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul -- have helped to show the American people and the wider world what the governing establishment in America is up to. These two individuals, and their families, are doing a tremendous service to the United States of America now and forevermore. They are among the truest and purest American patriots to have ever lived. Below are videos, in deliberate order, to familiarize yourself with the treatment of Pat Tillman by our government.

PAT TILLMAN

Ron Paul is the only candidate for President in 2008 that we can trust, that adheres to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, and that supports the principals from which America began and thrived for over 200 years.

If you only take a small something from this site, let it be this....Ron Paul has the courage to speak the truth amidst incredible opposition. By doing this, he has exposed for all Americans the truth about the established media and the necessity to keep the Internet free from government interference, and he has remained overwhelmingly consistent in Congress in working for more freedom, more liberty, less government intrusion, fewer taxes, less government spending, no preemptive wars, no entangling alliances, and opposing the calls for a North American Union and a National I.D. Card. This could be the most important election in the history of America. I must conclude my absolute and unwavering support for Ron Paul. He is the right guy at the right time, and I cannot find any excuse not to vote for him.

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