When I first got to college, one of the best pieces of advice I received was in writing and speaking, someone has probably already done it better. In that mindset, I draw upon several historical quotes to see what you think about them and how the quotes relate to today's society, economy and government.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Franklin
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Thomas Jefferson
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
Thomas Jefferson
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Thomas Jefferson
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
Theodore Roosevelt
"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
Patrick Henry
Well, there they all are. Please enjoy and pick one to respond to. Happy writing!