100+ Voting Founding Fathers Quotes

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

source: George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.7

topic: Party, Spirit, Voting Founding Fathers, Partisan Politics, Political Parties

quote let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is executing samuel adams Quotes

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

topic: Country, Offering, Voting, Human Society, Executing

Quotation Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside If we Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Wisdom, Religious, War, Faltering, American Voters

Quotation H L Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the Quotes

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

topic: Men, Law, Office, Morality And Religion, Corrupt Society

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

topic: Selfish, Men, Law, Squandering, Not Voting

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

topic: Character, Men, Office, Denominations, Not Voting

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Felicity, Limiting Government

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

topic: Freedom, Safety, Political, Social Control, Money In Politics

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

- George Washington

source: George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.30, New York : J. Wiley

topic: Party, Passion, Government, Voting Founding Fathers

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, Law, May, Limited Government, Founding

The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Christian, Men, Voting, Voting Founding Fathers, Honest Man

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

- Noah Webster

topic: Exercise, Men, Voting, Right To Vote, Discharge

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

- George Washington

topic: Peace, War, Government, Troublesome, Not Voting

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Character, Men, Curious, Not Voting, Voting Founding Fathers

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

- Noah Webster

topic: Country, Sacrifice, Men, Not Voting, Suffrage

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.437

topic: Mean, Hands, Two, Voting Founding Fathers

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Character, Patriotic, Men, Voting Founding Fathers

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

- James Madison

topic: Patriotic, Men, Law, Laws And Government, Liberty And Justice

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Freedom, People, Lethargy, Social Revolution

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

- Thomas Jefferson