“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force, like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
-George Washington

“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.”
- Thomas Paine

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

“The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
- John Adams

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“[The] spirit of liberty and patriotism animates all degrees and denominations of men.”
- James Madison

“A people Free to choose will always choose peace.”
- Ronald Reagan

"We must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of many.”
- Woodrow Wilson

“It’s not that I want to punish your success… I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance to success, too. I think when you spread the weatlth around, it’s good for everybody.”
- Barack Obama

“[Personal Property] is subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“The theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
- Karl Marx

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.”
- Rahm Emanuel (Obama Chief of Staff)