1. Donald Rumsfeld: “Visit with your predecessors of previous administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Don’t needlessly repeat their mistakes”.
2. THOMAS JEFFERSON:” Those who beat their guns into plows will plow for those who don’t”.
3. JOHN ADAMS: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.
4. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”.
5. GEORGE PATTON: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country”.
6. RONALD REAGAN: “Man is not free unless government is limited”.
7. ALEXANDER HAMILTON: “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything”.
8. JOHN ADAMS: “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people”.
9. THOMAS JEFFERSON: “When people fear government, there is tyranny; when government fears the people, there is liberty”.
10. JOHN PAUL JONES:“I have not yet begun to fight!”.
11. NATHAN HALE:“I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY”.
12. PATRICK HENRY:“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”.
13. JAMES MADISON: “Where a 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”.
14. THOMAS JEFFERSON: “When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property”.
15. GEORGE PATTON: “Better to fight for something than live for nothing”. “Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets”.
16. DANIEL WEBSTER: “The peoples government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people”..
NOTE; This was a smattering of what has made the fabric of our United States.
M.Shean, author of #GUN SENSE, on Amazon