by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 25, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Founders, Natural Law, Quotes
“It is the lot of all human institutions, even those of the most perfect kind, to have defects as well as excellencies – ill as well as good propensities. This results from the imperfection of the Institutor, Man.” Alexander Hamilton, Selected...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 9, 2015 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Subject, Uncategorized
“For it is very clear that, in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members.” Woodrow Wilson,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 9, 2015 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Subject
“Democracy is bound by no principle of its own nature to say itself nay as to the exercise of any power.” Woodrow Wilson, Unpublished Essay: “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject
“Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Quotes, Subject
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.” – William Cobbett