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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden, Hall of Fame Basketball Coach

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it." - Thomas Edison

"Information is the seed for an idea and only grows when it's watered." - Heinz V. Bergen

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." - H. Ross Perot

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."- Thomas Jefferson

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." - Thomas Jefferson

"That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."- George Mason

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."- James Madison

"We must confine ourselves to the powers described in the Constitution, and the moment we pass it, we take an arbitrary stride towards a despotic Government."- James Jackson, First Congress, 1st Annals of Congress, 489

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."- James Madison

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."- Abraham Lincoln

"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute."- Thomas Paine

"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."- John Adams

"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals .... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."- Albert Gallatin, New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too." - William Somerset Maughan

"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

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine

" The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."- James Madison

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."- Thomas Jefferson

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." - Dale Carnegie