The Loud Talker

As our government runs amok, as our media swoons in the puppy-love of a charismatic charlatan, as our youthful voting population is enamored with reality television, I offer the following quotes to help try and “reset” American patriotism. If you want more, go purchase “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Scousen (ISBN-13: 978-0-88080-148-5). This is where I found the quotes below.

• “The Utopian schemes of leveling [re-distribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional.” – Samuel Adams
• “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
• “For it is truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those [toward] whom they entertain the least suspicion.” – Alexander Hamilton
• “In questions of power, let no more be said of confidence in Man. But bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “If the day should ever arrive (which God forbid!) when the people of the different parts of our country shall allow their local affairs to be administered by prefects sent from Washington, and when the self-government of the States shall have been so far lost as that of the departments of France, or even so closely limited as that of the counties of England – on that day the political career of the American people will have been robbed of its most interesting and valuable features, and the usefulness of this nation will be lamentable impaired.” – John Fiske
• “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? – James Madison, Federalist Paper #62