"Hence, the less government we have, the better, the fewer laws, and the less confided power."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
REPEAL THE 17TH
"The courage and wisdom of those who birthed this Republic was nothing short of a magnificent event
in the history of the world. When creating the federal government, it was imperative that the colonies
(later called states) and the people be represented fairly. The method decided upon was the people would
vote for their voice - a representative to serve in the House of Representatives.
"The states of the Union would each have an equal number of U.S. Senators (fixed at two), appointed
by their state legislature to represent the interests of the state. Should that U.S. senator fail in their job, the
legislature would recall them and appoint a new one. The decision to have the states appoint their U.S.
senators was very calculated.
"All of that changed with the fraudulent ratification of the 17th Amendment. U.S. senators would now be
elected. The states lost their suffrage rights, they no longer had any representation in Washington, D.C., and
the federal machine has walked all over them since."
- Columnist Devvy Kidd
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is
not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."
John Adams
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." -
Samuel Adams
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions,
his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
James Madison
"Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
Baron M.A. Rothschild
"Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the
same thing is done in private industry -- whether it is building housing, running prisons,
collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we
imagine that health care would be the exception?"
-Thomas Sowell
The Burden of Taxation
"Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
The general aim is, therefore, to adopt the mode most consonant with the circumstances and sentiments of the country."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue internal taxes. These
covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation
which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own."
--Thomas Jefferson
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the
poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
- Benjamin Franklin
A National Bank
"The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed [by legislation doing so] have not, in my opinion, been delegated
to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated."
--Thomas Jefferson
"It has always been denied by the republican party in this country, that the Constitution had given the power of incorporation to
Congress. On the establishment of the Bank of the United States, this was the great ground on which that establishment was
combated; and the party prevailing supported it only on the argument of its being an incident to the power given them for raising money."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I
sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution...
An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical
moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any
other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with
all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give
further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"
--Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake
up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The kind of government that is strong enough to give you everything you need is also strong enough to
take away everything that you have."
Ronald Reagan