Agree that the Democrat party of today must be destroyed. They don't represent the average citizen. They're deliberately trying to turn the United States into a socialist society. A political party is supposed to represent the people, not force an agenda on them.
A political party is supposed to represent the people, not force an agenda on them.
And, the people are supposed to manage their employees,
not allow them to do whatever the **** they want,
and spend and give away however much money they want
on whatever and to whomever the **** they want
get away with it and keep them on the payroll anyway
They don't work for us, we work for them...
and that is just fucked up
People will gather together and raise bloody hell
for passions but, not government abuses and corruption
The fault first lies, with the complacency of the people
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
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, Circa 1774
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
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
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton,
speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
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
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense
of the community should govern the conduct of those
to whom they entrust the management of their affairs;
but it does not require an unqualified complaisance
to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse
which the people may receive from the arts of men,
who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 71, March 18, 1788
Every government degenerates
when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
The multiplication of public offices,
increase of expense beyond income,
growth and entailment of a public debt,
are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821
Wherever the real power in a Government lies,
there is the danger of oppression.
James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin (attributed),
at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
If a nation expects to be ignorant —
and free — in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816