"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave".
Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775
Sign Making Tips:
Choose large pieces of white poster board or foam board. Colored pieces make text harder to read.
Decide on a slogan. Try to stick to short phrases. Avoid obscure references and the funnier the better – those will be memorable.
Sketch out the slogan in pencil – make sure the letters are large enough to read, your text should use the entire space.
Slogans should be written in a combination of upper and lower case letters – all caps are hard to read. Use them sparingly for emphasis.
Using broad-tipped markers, write your slogan in broad letters. Sometimes it helps to write it first and then go over it again to make it thicker. It’s okay if it looks homemade – that’s because it is. I like to use mostly black – it’s easiest to read.
Underline, bold, or use another color for words you want to stand out.
If you know someone who is good at writing in block letters and if you know you aren’t good at it then leave it to them. They will probably make great signs instinctively and you can focus on signing people up and shouting.
Sometimes, if there is a picture or image that helps your argument, you can use it on your sign. Just make sure it is large enough to see from a distance and fairly simple so that it doesn’t obscure your words. But don’t spend a lot of time worrying about it – the words are the most important thing.
Make sure that every sign has the name and website of your organization or event so that people walking by know where to get more information and who you are with.
Have fun and be creative.
Slogans
“Free thinkers for a free market”
“Spare us Your 'Change'”
“Bailouts, Stimulus, and Pork. Oh My!”
“Party Like it's 1773”
“The Answer to 2009 is 1776”
“Don't Stimulate: Liberate”
“Paying My Mortgage, and Yours Too”
“Don't Tread on Me”
“Keep Your Bailout; I’ll Keep My Freedom”
“Obamanomics: Chains You Can Believe In”
“Born Free, Taxed to Death”
“Give me Liberty, not Debt”
“Pillage and Plunder: At Least the Vikings did it Openly”
“Commander and Thief”
“If You Think Health Care is Expensive Now, Wait Until it's Free”
“It’s not a stimulus bill, it’s a strangulation bill.”
“Your Mortgage is Not My Problem”
“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
“Repeal the Bailout”
“We the People…are now owned by the Chinese.”
“Obamanomics – Chains you can believe in”
“Obamanomics – Trickle up poverty”
“Stimulate business, not government”
“DOW 6000 – Thanks for the change”
“We the people want our money back”
“Socialism – not the change we need!”
“No bailouts.”
“Freedom Works – Bailouts Hurt”
“Freedom – A stimulus we can afford”
“Let the Failures Fail”
“Honk if I’m paying your mortgage”
“You can’t borrow prosperity”
“I’ll keep my freedom, you keep the Change”
“Home ownership is not an entitlement”
“I’ll pay for my house, you pay for yours”
“Welcome back Carter”
“Party like it’s 1773”
“Proud American capitalist”
“Repeal the pork or your bacon is cooked”
“Your mortgage is not my problem”
“No taxation without deliberation”
“Give me liberty, don’t give me debt!”
“You can’t spend your way out of debt”
“$11 Trillion and climbing – Now that’s a lot of change!”
“Wake up America, stop the insanity!”
“R.I.P. Free market economy”
“Save trees, stop printing money”
“Marxism – Reagan defeated it, Obama embraces it”
“Don’t tread on me” (Gadsden flag or First Navy Jack)
“I want your money” (recruiting picture of Uncle Sam)
“See what happens when you give a junior senator a credit card?”
“Socialism is not an American value”
“Wall Street got a bailout and all I got was the bill”
“Just Say No” (word “Socialism” with circle and slash)
“Liberty is all the stimulus we need”
“You keep your Change, and I’ll keep mine”
“No to American Socialism”
“Socialism kills”
“Freedom Works”
“You can’t spend your way out of debt”
“The government’s dumb, the market’s rational”
“Yes we can – stop the bailouts!”
“Bailouts + Debt = fiscal child abuse”
“Stop Spending, Start Cutting”
“Why don’t you cut my taxes instead?”
“Promote responsibility, no more bailouts!”
“Let the markets work”
“Stop rewarding failure”
“Save the children – stop spending their money”
“Who will bail out the government?”
“I will not pay for someone else’s house”
“I don’t want your debt”
“Stop punishing success”
“You can’t multiply wealth by dividing it”
“Redistribution just means less for everyone”
“USSA”
“Your pork broke my piggy bank”
“TARP = $750 Billion
Stimulus = $870 Billion
2009 Deficit = $1.75 Trillion
U.S. Dollar = WORTHLESS!!”
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NOTE: American Family Association, "VernTheGreek", "NickTilberg" or "1776 in 2008" claims no credit for the foregoing slogans. Special thanks to http://ramenandrand.blogspot.com/ and http://ashevilleteaparty.wordpress.com/ and http://www.freedomworks.org/ and Michelle Malkin and all other patriots intent on keeping America (debt) free!