by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, Quotes, Religion, Samuel Adams, Uncategorized
“We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” Samuel Adams Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes, Religion
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” George Washington’s...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Founders, John Jay, Quotes
“Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty…be the soul of this constitution, and it will become the source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Quotes
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” –James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, 1792 Courtesy of the Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 15, 2013 | Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” –Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the Patriot Post (PatriotPost.us)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction… that there never was an...
