“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

“No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. ”

“The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.”

“Only we, the public, can force our representativesto reverse their abdication of the war powers that theConstitution gives exclusively to the Congress.”

“As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public good, they denounced parties as groups of ambitious men selfishly competing for power. Worse, parties were danger signals for a republic; if parties dominated a republic's politics, its days were numbered.”