by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Quotes
William Gladstone said of the US Constitution: “The Most Wonderful Work Ever Struck Off At A Given Time By he Brain And Purpose Of Man.” William Gladstone was Prime Minister of England four separate times between 1868 and 1894. Courtesy of the National...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him …. The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the…direction of that motion; so, when he created man, and endued him with freewill to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid down certain...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, government, natural law, Philosophers, Quotes, religion
“Man … must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature…. This law of nature…is of course superior to any other…. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…all men are… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, Quotes, Religion
“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)
