by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.” John...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.” John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (9 July 1813) Courtesy of Wiki Quote...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Economics, Education, Founders, John Adams, President, Quotes
“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already.… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 20, 2013 | Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“”Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their...
