by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, President, Quotes
“In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running … We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth….We find ourselves under the government of a system of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate …. But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.” Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“In questions of power … let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort …. This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,… nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has … is violated by arbitrary seizures of one...
