by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Quotes
Writing about our Constitution in Federalist 1, Alexander Hamilton said: “Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, President, Quotes
“In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running … We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth….We find ourselves under the government of a system of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Quotes
“The Constitution is to the American people a possession for the ages.” “In America, a new people had risen up without king, or princes, or nobles….By calm meditation and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which, in the union of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, Quotes
“The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its components are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order and its defenses are impregnable from without. It has been...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate …. But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of...
