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
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
23SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason
22SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.
George Mason
21SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
James Madison
20SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
James Madison
19SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
James Madison
18SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
17SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Calvin Coolidge
16SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.
Sam Houston
15SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
He has all the characteristics of a dog – except loyalty.
Sam Houston