Morning Quote

"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened." --Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations

Is this not a snapshot of the times? I do believe that our founders had a sort of vision into the future because the above quote is as relevant today as it could ever be.


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Timeless Quotes That Stir the Senses

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.

-John Wayne as Col. Davy Crockett In the Alamo (1960)

     I really wish the Duke were here today to call foul on a lot of the garbage going on these days, sadly though I think he is rolling in his grave at what we have become.

If anyone else has any good quotes out there please leave them in the comment section and I will collect them for a post in a week of so. Thanks

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