Our founding fathers and leaders of the past v.s. Dubuya

Call me crazy, but it sounds pretty liberal to me….
P.S……Support the LIVING WAGE…
BTW…..to all my fellow americans of faith…please pay close attention to President John Addams words…..he was there when the constitution was written after all.
P.P.S…..Damn Lincoln was right.

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“I would rather be defeated,” said James A. Garfield, “than make capital out of my religion.”

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“I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money powers preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes… Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.” – – Abraham Lincoln (In a letter to William Elkins, Nov 21, 1864)

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“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” –Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the U.S.

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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” President John F. Kennedy

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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” President Jimmy Carter

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“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.” President Theodore Roosevelt

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“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.” President Grover Cleveland

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“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ” President Woodrow Wilson

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“The buck stops here.” President Harry Truman

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“Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. (April 1953, Washington, D.C.) ” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.” President Ulysses S. Grant

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“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.” President John Adams

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“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ” President Thomas Jefferson

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“If we ever put any other value above (our) liberty, and above principle, we shall lose both.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” President Abraham Lincoln

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“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.” President Thomas Jefferson

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“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations-President James Madison

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“From the time I was very young, I saw the ugly face of segregation and discrimination. I saw young African-American kids sent upstairs in movie theaters. I saw white only signs on restaurant doors and luncheon counters. I feel such an enormous responsibility when it comes to issues of race and equality and civil rights.

I have heard some discussions and debates about where, and in front of what audiences we should talk about race, equality, and civil rights. Well, I have an answer to that question. Everywhere.

This is not an African-American issue, not a Latino issue, not an Asian-American issue, this is an American issue. It ’s about who we are, what our values are, what kind of country we want to live in. ”

Sen John Edwards- 2004 DNC “the Two Americas

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“And let me say it plainly: in that cause, and in this campaign, we welcome people of faith. America is not us and them. I think of what Ron Reagan said of his father a few weeks ago, and I want to say this to you tonight: I don’t wear my own faith on my sleeve. But faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday. I don’t want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God’s side. And whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

These aren’t Democratic values. These aren’t Republican values. They’re American values. We believe in them. They’re who we are. And if we honor them, if we believe in ourselves, we can build an America that’s stronger at home and respected in the world. “- Sen. John Kerry- 2004 DNC- “America can do better”

My thanks to the wonderful Politicalmonitor.us….a good website..with some admitedly left wing bias.