While making his case, McCain — who like Trump is a Republican — mentioned Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. Von Kleist was part of the group that plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
"What would von Kleist's generation say if they saw our world today?" McCain asked.
"I fear that much about it would be all too familiar for them.
And they would be alarmed by it."
Hmmm, WHAT WOULD OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
AND THEIR GENERATION THINK OF, NOT ONLY OUR COUNTRY
BUT, THE SAD, CORRUPT STATE OF OUR GOVERNMENT?!
Germany... unfuckingbelievable
How many years has he been ******* us in office?
I'd like to run into him some day...
when he's walking and I'm driving!
Government is instituted for the common good;
for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people;
and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man,
family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone
have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right
to institute government;and to reform, alter, or totally change the same,
when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
If angels were to govern men,
neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,
the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government
to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
James Madison, Federalist No. 51, February 8, 1788
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for;
but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced
among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend
their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
James Madison, Federalist No. 58, 1788
The States can best govern our home concerns
and the general government our foreign ones.
I wish, therefore... never to see all offices transferred to Washington,
where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people,
they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, June 12, 1823
The natural cure for an ill-administration,
in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21, 1787
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, Notes on the State of Virginia Query 19, 1781
The same prudence which in private life
would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects,
forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Shelton Gilliam, June 19, 1808
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
A general dissolution of principles and manners
will more surely overthrow the liberties of America
than the whole force of the common enemy.
While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued;
but once they lose their virtue they will be ready
to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government;
secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution;
and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory,
must be, in practice, a bad government.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 70, 1788
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite
to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care,
and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible,
free from every other control but a regard to the public good
and to the sense of the people.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 31, January 1, 1788
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies
cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident
that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential
that the credit of a nation should be well established.
Alexander Hamilton, Report on Public Credit, January 9, 1790
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
No government, any more than an individual,
will long be respected without being truly respectable;
nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
Alexander Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 62, 1788
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy.
and I am much mistaken if experience has not wrought
a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind that greater energy
of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 26
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on
the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure,
original fountain of all legitimate authority.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 22, December 14, 1787