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In spirit with celebrating our nations birthday here are some interesting quotes from some of our founding fathers.

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
-George Washington

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
-George Washington

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
-James Monroe

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
-George Washington

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
-John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
-John Adams

"In politics the middle way is none at all."
-John Adams

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