American Exit Strategy Quotes

“When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“The true Republican Party began as the Jeffersonian-Republicans. Small government, state sovereignty, non-intervention and no federal bank that can tax the citizens through inflationary money creation to be spent on the profligate lifestyle of an obese state.”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society." -John Adams”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” -Samuel Adams”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.” - George Washington”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason - Father of the Bill of Rights”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” -John Adams”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” -Benjamin Franklin”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." -Benjamin Franklin”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy