"Liberals" evolved into Marxists, who call themselves "Democrats", who constantly proclaim our Founders established a "Democracy", and who think they devised a new political agenda they call "democratic-socialism". The Founders (and "Forefathers") were knowledgeable about human history, it's evolution of political establishment, and what worked and what did not. They were not perfect humans, because none of us are. Yet, they established a "more perfect Union" - more perfect than anything devised in human history - a constitutional republic based upon the "Rule of Law", not "Mob Rule". Democracy in its "purest form" was found to be lacking by the Greeks who established it. The Founders lived in an age of Enlightenment, backed by great philosophers of human history and gleaning knowledge from foreign intellectuals. It is amazing that out of the chaos of a revolution that 13 colonies would turn into a conglomerate of united states. But after generations, We the People did not heed their warning about how to keep a constitutional republic, as well as their freedom of choice, liberties, and established rights called the "Bill of Rights". Show me where the Founders prescribed "Democracy" in the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights ("amendments") and encouragement in the Federalist Papers to establish a democracy and not a republic, despite what the American Democrat-Socialists would have US believe. The Founders warned us of much of what is occurring today. The cry should be heard across our homeland and within the halls of our education system: 'SAVE OUR REPUBLIC". --- Keith Allen Lehman, 2022
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| John Locke (1632-1704) |
* “A government is like everything else: to preserve it, we must love it. Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic, and to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education.” — Montesquieu (1689-1755)
* “A democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction,” Ames thundered. “These will produce an eruption, and carry desolation in their way.” — Fisher Ames, 1788
* "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." — George Washington (1796)
* “I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole body of the people.” — George Mason (Defending the 2nd Amendment)
* “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." — Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1788
* “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Jefferson`s “Commonplace Book,” 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
* “Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.” — Thomas Jefferson (1813)
* “The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” Thomas Jefferson
* “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry … has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who … have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” —Thomas Jefferson (1816)
* “The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people, which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson (1787)
* “A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.” — Thomas Jefferson
* “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams
* Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.” — John Adams, An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, 1763
* “They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” — John Adams (1775)
* “We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” — John Adams (1797)
* “...a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it…” — John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, July 1775
* “If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.” — John Adams
* “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions.” — John Adams
* “That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangements of the powers of society, or, in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of republics.” — John Adams: Thoughts on Government, 1776
* “The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, and both should be checks upon that.” — John Adams: Thoughts on Government, 1776
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| James Madison (1751-1836) |
* “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” — James Madison
* "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. — James Madison
* “A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.” — James Madison
* “The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.” — James Madison
* “With respect to the words, ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of power connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution...not contemplated by the creators.” — James Madison
* “I cannot…lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” — James Madison
* “If Congress can employ money indefinitely...the powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.” — James Madison
* "No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." — James Madison 1788 - Federalist No. 48
* "The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived." — John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams
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| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
* "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." — Benjamin Franklin
* “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” — Benjamin Franklin
* A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’
* "We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy... It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers
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| ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804) |
* “Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” — Joseph Story (1833)
* "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos." — John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1801-1835
* “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln [Lyceum Address, 1838]
* “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” — Mark Twain (1853-1910)
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| Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
* “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.” — Mark Twain (1853-1910)
* “Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session” — Mark Twain (1853-1910)
* “There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.” — Mark Twain (1853-1910)
* "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." — John Basil Barnhill, Debate on Socialism, National Rip-Saw publication (St. Louis, Missouri, 1914)
* "Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off." --- Ayn Rand
* “Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.” — Steve King, Representative for Iowa, US Congress
* “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal of sharing of misery.” — Sir Winston Churchill
* “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Winston Churchill
* “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein
* “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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| Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
* “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.” — Ronald Reagan in an address to Congress about the unfair, intrusive and complicated tax system
* “I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeer, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” — Ronald Reagan – 1964 SPEECH
* “Government is never a source of goods. Everything produced is produced by the people, and everything that government gives to the people, it must first take from the people.” — Ted Cruz, A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America
* “…democracy by itself implies nothing about either freedom or the rule of law. A majority may destroy the freedom of a minority or make the issuance of edicts as arbitrary and discriminatory as it wishes.” — Thomas Sowell
* "The best cure for Marxism is not to adopt it in the first place." --- Keith Allen Lehman [Facebook, 2020]
* “Appeasing the mob has NEVER worked out as planned - anarchy and tyrants replace what they have destroyed.” — Keith Allen Lehman
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| Keith Allen Lehman (1949-) |
* “Vote with reason, not emotion. Vote responsibly by performing proper research culling facts from myth and propaganda. Look at the candidate's record ("On the Issues") and background, Don't be fooled by a charismatic personality, but make character part of the choosing process. Voting is not just a right, it is a duty. And that duty should be as serious and calculated decision as purchasing a home. Those elected have the power to change your lives. Will it be for the good?” — Keith A. Lehman [Liberty Lighthouse Journal]
* “If authorities would have dissolved Antifa as a terrorist threat - the Communist/Fascist entity would not have gained momentum you see today. If educators did not teach Marxism versus our Constitutional Republic, this mob generation would not have become puppets under the Marxist handlers. If We the People were more responsible voters, Democrat-Socialists would not have developed the "Deep State". Why do people wait until things get out of hand before doing something? Be brave and do not let the mob rule, but instead live by rule of law Founders created through our Constitution.” — Keith Allen Lehman (Facebook, 2020)
* "Along with freedom of choice comes the responsibility of accepting the consequences, good or bad." — Keith Allen Lehman, "Our Constitution"
* “I, like Thomas Jefferson, rely upon reason. The Founders were generally men of reason and believed in the rule of law and values, not the rule of men. Reason and the rule of law is what made our Constitution unique and we have a Republic and not a Democracy. It does not tell us we are allowed by government to have liberties and rights; but instead, provides clauses and amendments (Known as the “Bill of Rights”) that limits government, not the People. We the People have been apathetic for decades and didn’t believe that Americans would strive for Marxism to replace our constitutional republic. Now that we are seeing the results of that apathy, the fight to return our government to constitutional law and our culture and society to return to common sense morality and family/civic values based upon wisdom from ancient to present will be hard pressed. It is why the Marxists want to destroy history to be replaced by their own concoction” — Keith Allen Lehman, 2021
* "No nation can survive that doesn't share a philosophy, a history, and a culture," and that's what the left is doing now. Its our philosophy spelled out in the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, our history of our founding and story of goodness and exceptionalism, and our culture of patriotism, love of family, and hard work". - Ben Shapiro
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| Donald Trump (1946-) |
* “One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.” — Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
* “In reality they’re not after me. They are after you. I’m just in the way.” — Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
* “The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people.” — Donald Trump, 45th U.S. President
* “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. — Peter Marshall (Presbyterian Minister)
* "Texas is a good place to live and work is because it hasn't been totally destroyed by leftist policies. If you move to Texas, don't turn it into California by voting for destruction." — Emmy Griffin
* “Democracy, standing alone, cannot create the delicate balances needed among all these competing interests. Thus, our Constitution creates something better. Our system is a blend of democracy (self-governance), republicanism (deliberation and compromise), and federalism (state-by-state action). Power is separated among three branches of government. Moreover, power is divided between the states and the national government. Even more power is left to the people themselves! The Constitution requires super-majorities to take some actions, such as to amend the Constitution or to override a presidential veto. And we have an Electoral College.” — Tara Ross, 2022 (Also see Facebook)
* “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” — Selwyn Duke
* “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” — Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography [too often tyrants are replaced by another]
* ENLISTED OATH: I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the [LAWFUL] orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." [Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789].
“Democrats think they discovered a better form of Marxism referring to their ideology as "Democratic-Socialism". But excrement or feces is still a pile of crap. — Keith Allen Lehman [Facebook-January 2022]
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