Here Are Some Long Forgotten Quotes From Our Founding Fathers Which Surely Apply Today in Our Ever So Confused World:

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." John Adams.

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." John Adams, 1765.

"Let justice be done though the heavens should fall." John Adams in a letter in 1777.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759.

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." Ben Franklin, 1766.

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale's last words before being hanged by British.

THOMAS PAINE CHAMPION OF FREEDOM AND REASON

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry.

"One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle." James Otis, 1761.

"These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their county; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value." Tom Paine after the Declaration of Independence.

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Tom Paine.

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE QUOTES: GEORGE WASHINGTON

"We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed… we must bear the present evils and fortitude…" George Washington in 1781.

"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men." George Washington, 1776.