Some Timely Founding Father Quotes.

"Get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As Nations become corrupt and vicous, they have more need of masters"
-John Adams
"When a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes"
-George Washington
"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks can render us secure."
-James Madison
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt"
-Samuel Adams
"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe."
-John Adams
"Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual TOTAL EXTIRPATION of slavery from the United States. . . I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in abhorrence."
-John Adams
"Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the ediface prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction. . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object commited to them."
-James Madison