by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.” Marios Vargas Llosa, Quotes About Equality, p.6.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man… is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the...
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 5, 2013 | Founders, John Jay, Quotes
“The people are Sovereign. … at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects… with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal...