by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized
“May you and your contemporaries… preserve inviolate [the] Constitution, which, cherished in all its chastity and purity, will prove in the end a blessing to all the nations of the earth.” Letter to Philip N. Nicholas, 22 December 1821, Bergh...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world a the former examples we have given them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberations...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Constitution, Equality, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.” Courtesy of liberty-tree.ca
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Constitution, Equality, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent … It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Natural Law, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” Courtesy liberty-tree.ca
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.” Thomas Jefferson, from Transcending Time With Thomas Jefferson, Stephen D. Hanson, p. 82.
