The tension of Freedom - QUOTE

"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.  They want rain without thunder and lightning.  They want the ocean without the awesome roar of its many waters.  This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.  Power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will." 

- Frederick Douglass

Value and wealth - SELF QUOTE

Value is not a measure of wealth, but a measure of contribution. 

Value and wealth - SELF QUOTE

"America was never intended to provide an equality of wealth...it was intended to provide a wealth of equality."

Definition of Tyranny - QUOTE

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 Papers #47

Jefferson on taxation - QUOTE

"A wise and frugal government... 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 First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

The opposite of Productivity - QUOTE

"You cannot legislate the poor into riches by legislating the wealthy into poverty. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anyone anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005

Frog in a steeping Pot - Quote

Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884 - 1968). Norman was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." He went on to say, "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."