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Totally awesome article, Big T.

I particularly like these quotes...

Benjamin Franklin - The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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

James Madison - We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

John Adams - There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Thomas Jefferson - I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson - A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men 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 - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Paine - When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Of course, this is probably the most important one...

King George - I desire what is good. Therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor.

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Great post Big T!

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I wish I had a time machine to hang out with real Americans.