by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? …the people...
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 | 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 | 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 15, 2013 | Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” –Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the Patriot Post (PatriotPost.us)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction… that there never was an...
