by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Education, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The science of government is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Blackstone, education, Education, Philosophers, Quotes
“I think it an undeniable position, that a competent knowledge of the laws of that society in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar; an highly useful, I had almost said essential, part of liberal and polite education. And in...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Economics, Education, Founders, John Adams, President, Quotes
“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John...
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, 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...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Founders, John Jay, Quotes
“Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty…be the soul of this constitution, and it will become the source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy...
