A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
T. Jefferson
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General Stonewall Jackson has been quoted saying that when the time of war comes,
“My advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard".