Thomas Jefferson - Peace and War - 1810

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"In times of peace the people look most to their representatives;
but in war, to the executive solely."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Caeser Rodney, 10 February 1810)

Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America
(1218)

Thomas Jefferson on Taxes - 1784

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"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by
the individual."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to James Madison, 1784)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition),
Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 4:15.

James Madison Tyranny - 1788

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"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is
stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty
than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of
all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same
hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary,
self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very
definition of tyranny."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 48, 1 February 1788)

Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 47.

Alexander Hamilton on the Constitution - 1802

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"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to
cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political
foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself
provides for amendments."

-- Alexander Hamilton (letter to James Bayard, April 1802)

Reference: Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton,
Frisch, ed. (511)

Ben Franklin on Living Well

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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746)

Reference: Franklin: Writings, Lemay, Library of America (1209)

George Mason on Elected Senators

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"Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves
in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than
of your state."

-- George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
14 June 1788)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State..., Elliot, vol. 3
(405)

Media Assault on the 2nd Amendment

http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/eoc/2007/pdf/eoc-20070827.pdf

While many groups are working on your behalf to protect our
Second Amendment rights, few are battling the anti-gun bias
in the liberal media more effectively than the MRC.

That's why the MRC's just released Culture and Media Institute
report "The Media Assault on the Second Amendment," is so
important in this boiling debate. This report clearly exposes
the liberal media's anti-gun agenda!