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SeaBob Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 11:23 PM
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Good Quotes from the Founding Fathers
I ran acros todays a website that has posted some vey astute quotes from our founding fathers and some earlierpeople that are very applicable today. please make up your own mind.

1) Guard against the imposturesof pretended patriotism. George Washington

2) The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more, and tolerated by all. Tacitus

3) Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most dreaded because it comprimisesnand develops the germ of every other. James Madison

4) The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. Marcus Tillius Cicero

5) Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. Thucydides

6) It is dangerous to be right when the government the government is wrong. Voltaire
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