saddled_admin's Quotes

Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it can never willingly abandon it.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him ...

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.