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...
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 | Constitution, Equality, Founders, Government, James Madison, Quotes
“Equal laws protecting equal rights; the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.” James Madison: letter to Jacob de la Motta — 1820
