Thought for Today

"It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed."

~~~~~ Joel Barlow

Thought for Today

"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."

~~~~~ John Foster Dulles

Thought for Today

"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small."

~~~~~ Richard Mentor Johnson

Thought for Today

"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."

~~~~~ Justice Harlan Stone

Thought for Today

"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."

~~~~~ John Foster Dulles

Thought for Today

"Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers – not governments – to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens."

~~~~~ Charles Koch

Thought for Today

"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens."

~~~~~ William Beveridge

Thought for Today

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

~~~~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought for Today

"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."

~~~~~ Harlan Stone