Downfall Pt 15

As I have done through this entire piece, I would now like to continue with some quotes by our founding fathers. I will post a quote and then give my thoughts on each one. You can take my comments with a grain of salt, but at least think about what our founding fathers said.

"It is when people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains"
-Patrick Henry

Our country has forgotten God. We have allowed our government to restrict the free practice of religion to the point that God has been hidden away in our closets. The whole time our government has been plotting to take away the rest of our freedoms as well.

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering but if we neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how soon a catastrophe may overcome us, and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
-Daniel Webster

Again, our country was founded upon Christian beliefs. To deny or do away with those beliefs will bring about the downfall of us as a nation.

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted"
-James Madison

No need to comment on this one.

"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. "
-James Madison

Think about this and our war on terror, the Patriot Act and all the Homeland Security plans.

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

Try reading any of the legislation passed by our Congress and you will get the point.

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

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

-Thomas Jefferson

I am not promoting revolution but I am curious as to whether there any patriots left in this country who would be willing to stand up and die for what they believe in?

"The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and... if any act shall be... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right."
-Thomas Jefferson

As I said earlier, our government has taken God out of our lives and this states that it is our right to worship as we deem proper and right.

"The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pockets to pay for it would make of our country one of the happiest on earth."

"The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed [by legislation doing so] have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated."

"I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
-Thomas Jefferson

So what does that tell you about the Federal Reserve Bank, and our nations federal deficit and our own personal debts?


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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

"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants."

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

Ben Franklin was a wise man.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
-George Washington

I wonder if that is why I have always been somewhat of a loner?


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

That goes back to what the Declaration of Independence said, that "mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable..." Why do we tolerate abuses at the hands of people we elect to serve us?

Finally a quote by Mark Twain.

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain

That only shows the nature and character of men, that they are afraid to stand up for what is right until they are among a crowd and their cowardice can be hidden.