Boss Tweed - A notorious Democratic thief and plunderer!

Wonderful quote!

Kudos Juanita, Palm Bay and to all the others who are great constitutional patriots and commentators that believe in restoring and upholding this sovereign nation's founding as a Limited Government Republic. Onward and upward to those who greatly believe in personal initiative and responsibility as well as preserving all of our natural born God given unalienable rights.

As to Waffler and RK - You'll have to swallow and digest a lot of cheese to go along with your constant, persistent and ignorant pathetic whining.

If only the likes of the wise and astute Barry Goldwater could have been reincarnated ... at least to completely agitate the truly already bonkers Marxist Waffler.

The federal income tax is one of the horrific banes of the Woodrow Wilson progressive era. Greater taxation, greater government intrusions and a much greater cause of the tremendous growth of excessive, wasteful, costly and bloated federal Big Brother bureaucracies.

What Waffler lacks in insight and knowledge is that our founders purposely put in the U.S. Constitution that the money be of intrinsic value and thus requires and mandates that it is "coined" (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11). Thus, all the paper money is mandated to be backed by "coined" ... i.e., gold and silver.
Nor did Thomas Jefferson call for any debt to be backed up by Fiat Money" ... money created out of thin air and digital money of no intrinsic value that mirrors the statement of "Not Worth a Continental" .. or full out Counterfeit Fiat Money.
Our representatives have now created a huge fiat monetary unsustainable debt that goes far beyond paying off in 19 years. In fact it is a debt not only making all those currently living and breathing in the U.S. the collateral for the debt ... but, an unsustainable collateral debt for generations of those yet to be born.

J Carlton - No doubt Waffler, Smith would like nothing better but to get employed by all those who practice "graft and corruption" and who are allied with his communal communist mind-set.

Carrol Quigley was a despotic ruinous usurper of Austrian Economics and the Free Market enterprise system.

The creation of Federal Reserve paper money and digital money out of thin air is the fraud perpetrated on the people of the United States ... making them the collateral for all the debt and interest burden for those even yet unborn.
In not following the U.S. Constitution's mandate to have the monetary system backed by "Coined" intrinsic valued Gold and Silver the U.S. government's Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank is in the business of printing counterfeit money that is, "Not Worth a Continental."
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5 - "The Congress shall have Power] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;..."

The US Agency for International Development should not even exist ... because there is no constitutional authority for its deleterious welfare existence. It is just another unlawful bureaucracy created by the U.S. federal government wasting the taxpayers money on all too often failed boondoggle projects and agenda's through government plundering.

RBESRQ - Without the author of the Declaration of Independence, i.e., Thomas Jefferson you more than likely would not be practicing any Free Speech rights on this site ... because the U.S. Constitution would not have been promulgated let alone ratified. Your Unalienable Natural Rights would never have been known to you.
You more than likely would not have had the ability to write let alone the ability to read because you would have more than likely been a serf, chattel or more than likely a slave to whatever despotic Emperor, King or Czar held the power and control over North America .... because the founding sovereign Limited Government Republic would never have come into existence.
In fact ... the likelihood of your chance to have even been born would have been very minimal if the founders such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington had not succeeded in their Revolutionary War against Great Britain and its despotic king.

NON-INTERVENTIONISTS - NOT ISOLATIONISTS
-- "To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of differences to a decision of them by an appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender our own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves and too elevated not to look down upon them in others...." James Madison
Madison's Inaugural Address - The American Presidency Project - March 4, 1809

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.... Trust in temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies... steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." (President George Washington, Farewell Address, 1797)

"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so." -- George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' - Source: 1795 - letter to Gouverneur Morris, ref: Washington's Maxims, 54.

"Honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none," (President Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801)

George Washington was a wise Non-Interventionist and not by any means an "Isolationist" as so many are completely wrong in attempting to refer to him.
No doubt there are many Progressive Socialists whether they be Republicans or Democrats who wish to embroil themselves in the agenda of the Military Industrial Complex's and the U.N. agenda to keep this sovereign nation and its people in all out never ending wars .. ignoring Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution that mandates that the U.S. Congress must foremost Declare War before getting itself involved in any and all foreign entanglements.
-- George Washington: "The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure." (1793.)

Non-Interventionist John Quincy Adams who was NOT an Isolationist!

Sorry, I omitted the name of that "former great Congressman" i.e., Ron Paul who follows in the footsteps of Madison, Jefferson and Washington.

"To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of differences to a decision of them by an appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender our own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves and too elevated not to look down upon them in others...." James Madison
Madison's Inaugural Address - The American Presidency Project - March 4, 1809

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.... Trust in temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies... steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." (President George Washington, Farewell Address, 1797)

"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so." -- George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' - Source: 1795 - letter to Gouverneur Morris, ref: Washington's Maxims, 54.

"Honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none," (President Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801)

George Washington: "The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure." (1793.)

Sheldon Richman sounds very much like what the former great Congressman has been stating all along. As well as the wise and intelligent Non-Interventionists' George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Former Pres. Dwight Eisenhower warned about the warring agenda of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex ... i.e., the Pentagon.
We all know that the likes of Waffler, Archer and Reston have no idea what the difference is between an Isolationist and a Non-Interventionist .. And, if they do then they really don't give a care because they are always in their full-out mode to promote their Progressive-Socialist agenda's to shred the 1st Principles and the U.S. Constitution.

Anonymous, Reston habitually wishes to live in the Fog of the Unknown ------
"To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union." -- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
ad libitum - "at one's pleasure" (at liberty)

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." -- James Madison

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

[Venality - 1. The condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption.
2. The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.]
I'd say that Anonymous, Reston, VA US truly is corrupted from suffering venality, i.e., dependency on government.

Waffler is pathetically and all too consistently a sad Mental Amoeba who in his obvious delusions and his darkened fantasy world believes that he could be actually as intelligent as the framers.
Thank you to all the constitutional patriots who took the time to cut to ribbons Waffler's laughable and insanely ridiculous opinions of himself.

"Hope and Change" truly glittered for many weak eyes ... then blew up in their faces and their eyes.

Love the whit and wisdom of Ben Franklin.

Oh brother ... Have we ever got a U.S. Supreme Court acting full-out "ILLEGAL" now. It has now treated States Rights under the protection of the 10th Amendment as an ink-blot under its ruling on what constitutes marriage.
The U.S. Supreme Court along with and no thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts .. a so-called "Conservative" .. has now taken it upon itself to define the language in the ACA "Obamacare" and its State Health Care State Exchanges as poorly and mistakenly written.
Thus, the U.S. Supreme Court judges under the auspices of the arrogant Chief Justice John Roberts have decided to take it upon themselves to correct and define what it blatantly assumes the Affordable Care Act actually meant to state.

E Archer, NYC very well stated. I got to proudly read the Declaration of Independence years ago before an assembly of like minded, patriotic individuals.
The overwhelming courage it must have taken to produce such a profound and stupendous declaration in that time and era.

Just like the founders and the Minutemen who courageously fought for and took back their individual Unalienable Natural born Rights.