Quotes from American Patriots

Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils.
( General John Stark )

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense.
( John Adams )

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
( George Washington )

"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
( Benjamin Franklin )

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
( John Adams )

"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
( Daniel Webster )

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights . . . "
( Declaration of Independence )

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
( Preamble to the Constitution )

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

"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
( Nathan Hale )

"That book, Sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
( Andrew Jackson, Re: the Bible )


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