Blue Water Navy

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. ... It is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!" --Patrick Henry

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Thomas Jefferson

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first." -
Thomas Jefferson

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.