by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The Constitution…approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men.” Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 29 August 1788, Fitzpatrick 30:73.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“It appears to me….little short of a miracle that the delegates from so many different states…are also so different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices… should uniute in forming a system of national government so...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Ben Franklin, Constitution, Founders, Quotes, Uncategorized
“I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] … should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“[The Constitution] is … the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” John Adams letter to Rufus King, 26 December 1787, quoted in a letter from King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February 1788, in the Life and...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Is it not the glory of the people of America that, while they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names to overrule the suggestions of their own...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] … formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human...
