by Mike Van Schoiack | Aug 5, 2013 | Archive, Education, education, Founders, John Adams, President, Quotes
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Aug 1, 2013 | Archive, Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jun 26, 2013 | Archive, Courts, Founders, President, Quotes, Subject, Thomas Jefferson
“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Cicero, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“True Law (which he had defined as Natural Law) is right reason in agreement with nature: it is of universal application, unchanging and ever lasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. It is a sin to try to alter...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Founders, Quotes, Thomas Paine
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” Thomas Paine
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Founders, Freedom, Quotes, Thomas Paine
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.” Thomas Paine
