And you can quote "THEM" on that!

Some Thoughts for Upcoming Elections

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
— ELIZABETH WARREN[Source]

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor (November 11, 1755) [Source]

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
— GEORGE WASHINGTON

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
— THOMAS JEFFERSON to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. [Source]

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry."
— THOMAS JEFFERSON Statute of Religious Freedom, 1779. [Source]

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt,...we [will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments."
— THOMAS JEFFERSON to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39. [Source]

"The United States Of America is definitely NOT founded upon the Christian religion."
— Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed at Tripoli on November 4th, 1796 and by President JOHN ADAMS on June 10th, 1797. [Source]

Let true "...Government of the people, by the people, and for the people..." not perish from the earth!
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN (adapted)

"...when they came for my neighbors, I said nothing.
When they came for my family, I remained silent.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."

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