by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The happy union of these states is a wonder, their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world. Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either!” “Outline” of the relationship between...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized
“May you and your contemporaries… preserve inviolate [the] Constitution, which, cherished in all its chastity and purity, will prove in the end a blessing to all the nations of the earth.” Letter to Philip N. Nicholas, 22 December 1821, Bergh...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country…. I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and the relations of this...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes
“This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people…No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression…....
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world a the former examples we have given them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberations...
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.
