Page 165 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

 “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of

exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate
exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and

independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and
others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp

no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the
constant companion of your walks.”

 “When all government, in little as in great things, shall be
drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will

render powerless the checks provided of one government on
another and will become as venal and oppressive as the

government from which we separated”

 “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would
not.”

 “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of

civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… if
we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the

responsibility of every American to be informed.”
 “To take from one, because it is thought that his own

industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in
order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not

exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the
first principle of association, ‘the guarantee to every one of a

free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.’”

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