Ed Ward, aka: T. R. Ewar

MD. Medical Doctorate, 20 years of General Practice retired.

MT. Medical Technology Bachelor of Science, Associate of Science..

Coordinator, LA Branch of Indiana Civil Rights Council.

Founder of U-STEPUP and the Non Violent Active Divisions of U-STEPUP: FIRE-US and GNATS .

Member of the National Board of Advisors: Men's Health Network.

Voluteer During the Vietnam War: 6 Years U.S. Armed Forces

Vital Quotes that Describe, Without a Doubt, Exactly What "this Constitution", The Historical Background Constitution, Is. It's Very Plain. If You Read These Quotes, It Does Not Take a Law Degree to See That the government of Today is What The Founding Fathers Called TYRANNY Then.

James Madison

• "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." --- James Madison.
• A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
• As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
• Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
• It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
• The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
• We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
• In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men ... you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
• [In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
• "If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation." James Madison (1751-1836)

Thomas Jefferson

• "All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution."-------- Thomas Jefferson
• We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We . solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states . and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour.
• "I have sworn before the alter of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to B. Rush, Sept. 23, 1800
• The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. It was dictated by the principles of humanity, the precepts of the gospel, and the general wish of our country, and it was not to be doubted that the Society of Friends, with whom it is a religious principle, would sanction it by their support.
• "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
• "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
• "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."
• "The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
• "It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating in order to punish them."
• If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
• The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
• "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787"
• "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
• "Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
• "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find employment in this line till their numbers, and of course their productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign.
• A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.