Quotes on Voting Founding Fathers

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.