American Republicanism. 1792-1820
It stresses liberty and rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent and calls on them to perform civic duties, and is strongly opposed to corruption.

It is NOT the same as Democracy.

"None are more hopelessly
enslaved than those who falsely
believe they are free." -Goeth

In times of change, the Patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated, feared and scorned.
-Mark Twain

I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -Abraham Lincoln

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country."
- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. -Thomas Paine

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense" -Buddha

"The need to be right is a sign of a vulgar mind." -Albert Camus

"War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it." -Erasmus

"I know no disease of the soul
but ignorance: a pernicious evil,
the darkener of mans life, the
disturber of his reason, and common
confounder of Truth." -Ben Johnson

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-Nazi Reich Marshall Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg War Trials

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

子貢問曰、有一言、而可以人。
Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
-孔丘 Analects XV.24

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1782

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

Priests dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.

"But they that will be rich, fall into
temptation, and a snare, and into many
foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and perdition.
For the love of money is the root of
all evil" - 1 Timothy 6

"The flag symbolizes the right to burn it."
-Alex Jones

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mahatma Gandhi

"FUCKING thing SUCKS!" -Bill O'Reilly

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion."
-John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
-Edward R. Murrow, American journalist throughout the 1950's.

"Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."

Long live the republic.