Strong Medicine

Came across a page with some great quotes from some people that you'll probably recognize. I found the JFK quote I'm leading off with to be quite interesting considering it's timing. Kennedy was not of the same make-up as most of the other Presidents and definitely came from a different line. Anyway, here you go:

-"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." - John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

-"We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks...They are, not government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers..." - Senator Louis T. McFadden (for 22 years Chairman of the U.S. Banking & Currency Commission)

-"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty." - Benjamin Franklin

-"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved." - Benjamin Franklin

-"A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

-"The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself." - John Adams

-"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of god, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - Samuel Adams was the Father of the American Revolution

-"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty's Teeth." - George Washington

-"I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. If they have that, and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if they have not this, and I had given them all this world, they would be poor." - Patrick Henry in his will

-"Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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." - Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural Address

-"One of the main purposes for the control and power of the Establishment media is to keep the masses deceived and ignorant about their rights and oppressions of their rights." - Charles Weisman

-"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson

-"All socialism involves slavery." - Herbert Spencer

-"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos." - Chief Justice John Marshall

-"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid." - Benjamin Franklin

-"The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations." - Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

-"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

-"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men." - Samuel Adams

-"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood: The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty! Are you free?" - Andrew Ford

-"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence." - C. A. Beard

-"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts ". - Thomas Jefferson

-"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams