7/05/2025

23 Quotes from Our Founding Fathers to Inspire Greatness

 



Red, White, and True: 23 Quotes from Our Founding Fathers to Inspire Greatness
Let the wisdom of the greats inspire, motivate, and move you today.
We've been reminiscing on the beginnings of our great nation and the core beliefs the Founding Fathers established that have lead us to where we are today. The Founding Fathers inspired others to unlock their potential and created movement around a vision of self-reliance, collaboration, and innovation. They painted a picture of great leadership and strong culture.
"Imagine what greatness they can inspire today. Here are 23 quotes to start. Once you read these, complement these nuggets of wisdom by taking a deeper dive into 7 Principles for Success from our Founding Fathers.
1. "Always stand on principle...even if you stand alone."
?- John Adams
2. "If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."
- Thomas Jefferson
3. "Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
4. "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
- James Madison
5. "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
- George Washington
6. "Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed."
- John Jay
7. "To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
- Benjamin Franklin
8. "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
- Thomas Jefferson
9. "Learn to think continentally."
- Alexander Hamilton
10. "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin
11. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
12. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
- James Madison
13. "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
- Benjamin Franklin
14. "Whenever you do something, act as if all the world were watching."
- Thomas Jefferson
15. "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
- James Madison
16. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
17. "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power."
- James Madison
18. "Those who own the country ought to govern it."
- John Jay
19. "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
20. "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
- George Washington
21. "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
- Benjamin Franklin
22. "Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
- Alexander Hamilton
23. "Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin

6/22/2025

OBAMA & BIDEN’S $7 BILLION SHELL SCHEME

 


GITMO FILES EXPOSED: OBAMA & BIDEN’S $7 BILLION SHELL SCHEME — THE LARGEST TAXPAYER HEIST IN U.S. HISTORY BOMBSHELL: The Biden-Obama cartel just siphoned $7 BILLION of YOUR money into a fake “climate nonprofit” called the Climate United Fund—a shell operation with zero oversight and no accountability. This isn’t policy. This is criminal organized fraud. The Setup: November 2022: Climate United Fund created from NOTHING. Initial revenue: $547K. Initial spending: $451K in 2 months—unexplained. Then in April 2024, Biden’s EPA hands them $7 BILLION based on a 49-page report. That’s it. No audits. No vetting. Just a signature—and the money vanishes. WHERE IS THE MONEY? They claimed it’s for solar in Idaho, Oregon, and Arkansas—totaling only $50 million. So where’s the other $6.95 BILLION? Buried in Democrat-run web nonprofits like Power Forward Communities—connected to Stacey Abrams. This Is a Democrat Laundering Operation. Create a nonprofit. Assign operatives: Beth Bafford – ex-Obama staffer, no experience, now in charge of billions. Phil Angelides – Democrat machine insider. Anthony Foxx – Obama crony. Dolores Huerta, Patrice Willoughby – party money-movers. **They install their own, bypass legal review, and funnel money into campaigns, activist groups, and power networks—**with YOUR tax dollars. The Media Is Complicit. If Trump did this, the world would be on fire. But when Obama and Biden loot the treasury? SILENCE. No New York Times coverage. No Washington Post outrage. No “fact-checkers” interested. Because they’re all in on it. This is a Deep State Heist—Nothing Less. The $7B is just the beginning. They’re building a network of slush funds before 2026 and 2028—because they know the storm is coming. They know they’re going to lose. So they’re robbing the vaults while they still can. America Is Being Stripped. Right Now. The swamp believes you’re distracted. They believe you’ll accept “climate change” as cover for organized theft. But this isn’t green energy—it’s a greenlight for tyranny. FIGHT BACK. Share this NOW. Demand criminal investigations. EXPOSE these fake nonprofits. The largest heist in U.S. history is happening in real time. The countdown has already begun. They’re not ready for what’s coming. STAY AWAKE. GITMO awaits.

6/15/2025

Harry Jaffa on Lincoln's Prophetic Statesmanship

 


Elevating the Natural Aristocracy above the Pseudo-Aristocracies

The following is an excerpt from Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address, which is available today, June 10, from Encounter Books.

In Crisis of the House Divided, Jaffa argued that once it became possible for Lincoln to foresee the end of slavery, he prepared himself for a role in emancipation, and even, in the Lyceum speech, gave a “prophetic account of the coming crisis” casting himself in the role of Emancipator! Lincoln warned of future dangers that would confront the nation. These would be internal dangers, principally those stemming from mob rule, or more precisely the “spirit of mob rule.” The lawless in spirit—those who tolerate lawlessness—will be prone to become “lawless in fact.” Lincoln, of course, without direct acknowledgement, referred to abolitionists, who advocated violating the Constitution in order to emancipate slaves, whereas Lincoln’s avowed policy was one of prudence, which was to observe strict adherence to the Constitution which, when understood in light of the principles of the Declaration, had put slavery on the course of “ultimate extinction.” The greatest danger engendered by the “mobocratic spirit,” Lincoln insisted, “which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, [is that] the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed—I mean the attachment of the People.” What can unite them? What is the remedy Lincoln proposes? A political religion!

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6/14/2025

"No Kings!" Protest Accidentally Proves U.S. Has No King — Founders laugh on the Sidelines

 


By Benjamin Snark, Staff Satirist

In a twist that left historians chuckling and the Constitution giving a smug side-eye, a group of protesters recently took to the streets chanting “NO KINGS!”—seemingly unaware that the U.S. hasn’t had a king since 1776 and, thanks to that dusty old document they never read, we legally can’t have one.

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6/10/2025

Why Is Governor Newsom Going Full Jefferson Davis?

 


Victor Davis Hansen

What triggered the American Civil War were state officials who refused to honor federal law and instead boasted of their open defiance of Washington. That precedent apparently is the incendiary model for the weird, but dangerous recent behavior of an increasingly unhinged California Governor Gavin Newsom. He is currently supporting the often-violent protestors in Los Angeles and their resistance to federal officials’ enforcement of immigration laws. Newsom claimed that Trump’s use of ICE to detain those here illegally in the U.S. was “reckless”, “chaotic” and “eroding trust”. Does he think that his own rhetoric is creating calm and building trust by opposing the lawful enforcement of federal statutes? Or is he following the baleful model of arch-Confederate rebel Jefferson Davis? Does Newsom support the similar defiance of fellow resistor Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass? She all but called for official city resistance to the enforcement of federal law, with an added threat, “We will not stand for this." What does Bass—who recently was junketing in Ghana as entire swaths of Los Angeles were incinerated—mean by “we”? All of Los Angeles? The LAPD? Will Bass use the LA police to stand against federal officers who are implementing the law and have a constitutional right and indeed requirement to enforce federal laws within the states? Does the governor grasp that his reckless states’ rights rhetoric empowers violent protestors who torch cars, pelt passersbys, and assault officers? Take, for example, fellow California Democrat, Congresswoman Norma Torres. She just messaged federal immigration officers with the obscene threat,“Get the f--- out of LA.” Does Torres believe that Los Angeles should become a modern-day South Carolina of 1861, boasting that it will defy the federal government? Is Torres echoing Democrat and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? He just boasted that he would dox endangered ICE agents, publishing their personal information and revealing their identities (“Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”). How exactly does Rep. Torres think she is going to get federal officers “the f--- out of LA”? Does Torres consider the now outnumbered and often threatened ICE officers to be the modern versions of surrounded federal troops at Fort Sumner? Newsom did just not stop at siding with violent resistors to federal officers. He again took on the federal government and the Trump administration for reminding California that it is subject to federal fines for its current defiance of federal Title 9-related presidential executive orders barring transgendered biological men from competing in women’s sports. Trump recently was merely following the precedent of the Obama administration that first issued such warnings of cut-offs to educational institutions that might not abide its own Title 9 federal policies and directives. Here is how Newsom worded his threats of insurrectionary resistance to Washington: “Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off”. Cut that off? Has the rebellious Newsom read the U.S. Constitution? Is he calling for us Californians not to pay our federal income taxes? Does he know that he just de facto called for federal tax evasion—an act that could be construed as a felony under 18 U.S.C. Section 2 of the federal tax code? States do not have the legal authority to override the federal government by arbitrarily withholding federally warranted income taxes from its U.S. citizens. In 1861 such defiance almost destroyed the U.S. And does a clueless Newsom really believe that California’s $80 billion surplus of taxes versus receivables with the U.S. Treasury actually pays “the bills for the federal government”? Hardly. In truth, it amounts to no more than 1.5 percent of the annual $5.5 trillion in federal revenue? Does Newsom even realize that California taxpayers are American citizens first, and California residents second? Or has his past advocacy for defiant sanctuary cities and current nullification of federal law made him a states’ rights rebel in the past fashion of George Wallace’s Alabama resistance? Beside their Confederate-like defiant threats to resist federal laws, do Newsom, Bass, and Torres realize they are clearly on the wrong side of public opinion? Despite the media and leftwing hysterias, even the liberal CBS poll just reported that 54 percent of Americans still support deportation as a legitimate means of enforcement of federal immigration law. In contrast, Newsom’s latest polls show that just 2 percent of Democrats envision him as their 2028 party presidential nominee. Worse, in the most recent average of some 30 polls, only 27 percent of those surveyed expressed a favorable opinion of Newsom. Does he think that illegal aliens violently breaking the laws of the nation in which they demand to stay and burning its flag, while waving the flag of the foreign country to which they refuse to return, will win the support of the American people? Does he grasp that 75 percent of Americans support the deportation of illegal aliens who commit criminal acts like many of those currently in the Los Angeles protests? Or is Newsom signaling that given all these polls he prefers to end his political career—and so just blew it up?