by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Education, Founders, Freedom, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Religion, Thomas Jefferson
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape…? –James Madison (1788) Courtesy of The Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jun 26, 2013 | Freedom, Government, New, Quotes
In 1916, a minister and outspoken advocate for Liberty, William J. H. Boetcker, published a pamphlet entitled “The Ten Cannots”: You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Founders, Freedom, Quotes, Thomas Paine
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.” Thomas Paine
