by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, Quotes, Religion, Samuel Adams, Uncategorized
“We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” Samuel Adams Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes, Religion
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” George Washington’s...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Founders, John Jay, Quotes
“Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty…be the soul of this constitution, and it will become the source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, government, natural law, Philosophers, Quotes
“Free men have arms; slaves do not.” William Blackstone Courtesy of BrainyQuote (BrainyQuote.com)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.” William Blackstone Courtesy of Brainy Quote (BrainyQuote.com)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Quotes
“The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.” William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:120–41
