by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson, courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” Thomas Jefferson, Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Government, government, John Adams, Quotes
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Letters to John Taylor (1814), p. 484
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Education, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The science of government is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison, Annals of Congress , 3rd Congress, 1st Session, Page 170...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things,...
