by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“It appears to me….little short of a miracle that the delegates from so many different states…are also so different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices… should uniute in forming a system of national government so...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Ben Franklin, Constitution, Founders, Quotes, Uncategorized
“I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] … should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced,...
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 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Is it not the glory of the people of America that, while they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names to overrule the suggestions of their own...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] … formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Quotes
“All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,...
