#founding

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington... ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#inspiration #man-o-war #inspirational

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#founding-fathers #freedom #liberty #thomas-jefferson #freedom

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#american #believe #complexion #dreams #founding

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. ↗

— James Meredith

#answer #constitution #deal #dealt #fathers

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. ↗

— Ron Paul

#founding-fathers #illegal-taxes #income-tax #politics #ron-paul

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. ↗

— Michael J. Findley

#ancient-governments #culture #establishment-of-religion #history #non-fiction

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #founding #more

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. ↗

— Hugo Black

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #free #free press

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers