by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“[The Constitution] is … the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” John Adams letter to Rufus King, 26 December 1787, quoted in a letter from King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February 1788, in the Life and...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Natural Law, Quotes
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Freedom, John Adams, President, Quotes
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. Courtesy of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, John Adams, Politics, President, Quotes
In politics the middle way is none at all. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
