These are just some of My Favorite Quotes

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government,
so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution
so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
Thomas Jefferson

“It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work — work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.”
–Ronald Reagan

“We’ve come to a moment in our history when party labels are unimportant. Philosophy is all important. Little men with loud voices cry doom, saying little is good in America. They create fear and uncertainty among us. Millions of Americans, especially our own sons and daughters, are seeking a cause they can believe in. There is a hunger in this country today—a hunger for spiritual guidance. People yearn once again to be proud of their country and proud of themselves, and to have confidence in themselves. And there’s every reason why they should be proud. Some may have failed America, but America has never failed us, and there is so much to be proud of in this land.”
—Ronald Reagan

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams

“The future and success of America is not in this Constitution,
but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”
James Madison

No truth is more evident to any mind than that the Christian religion
must be the basis of any government intended to secure
the rights and privileges of a free people.”
Noah Webster

Life’s truest heroes never carve their name
On marble columns built for their acclaim;
They build instead a legacy that springs
From faithful service to the King of kings. —Gustafson
A life lived for God leaves a lasting legacy.

“Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States,
is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.”

–James Madison

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
James Madison