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, 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...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Quotes
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” –James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, 1792 Courtesy of the Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Quotes
“All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,...
