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TJ on Big Government

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best …. When all government … shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and wilt become as …...

Alexis de Tocqueville on Education

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Religion

“.every citizen … is taught . the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution … it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person...

John Locke on the Purpose of Law

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Government, John Locke, Philosophers, Quotes

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” John Locke Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)

William Gladstone on the US Constitution

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Quotes

William Gladstone said of the US Constitution: “The Most Wonderful Work Ever Struck Off At A Given Time By he Brain And Purpose Of Man.” William Gladstone was Prime Minister of England four separate times between 1868 and 1894. Courtesy of the National...

TJ on Natural Law

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...

TJ on Natural Rights

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...
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