The Bad Influence Speaks

Friday Patriotics: Frederick Douglas

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

-Frederick Douglas

Friday Patriotics: John Marshall

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

-John Marshall

Friday Patriotics: Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is noting wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Friday Patriotics: Bill Clinton

In the face of death, let us honor life.

-Bill Clinton

Friday Patriotics: Samuel Adams

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

-Samuel Adams

Friday Patriotics: Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Friday Patriotics: Major Oveta Culp Hobby

In the final analysis, the only testament free people can give the quality of freedom is the way in which they resist the forces that imperil freedom.

-Maj. Oveta Culp Hobby, director Women's Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC)

Friday Patriotics: Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

-Groucho Marx

Friday Patriotics: John Edwards

The real test of patriotism is how we treat the men and women who put their lives on the line everyday to defend out values.

-John Edwards

Friday Patriotics: Lyndon B. Johnson

Our nation's security lies in the strength of our people - our people at work in prosperous communities in sound mental and physical health.

-Lyndon B. Johnson