by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape…? –James Madison (1788) Courtesy of The Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | President, Quotes, Religion, Thomas Jefferson
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the...
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, 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
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Founders, Quotes, Thomas Paine
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Thomas Paine
