by Mike Van Schoiack | May 12, 2018 | Government, Natural Law, Uncategorized
In 1861, on reading the Origin of Species, Marx exulted: “Darwin’s book is very important and serves me as a natural scientific basis for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course.” Source: Discovery...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 3, 2016 | Ben Franklin, Constitution, Founders, Government, New, Quotes
Benjamin Franklin anecdote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.” Notes from Dr. James McHenry, Maryland delegate to the constitutional Convention, published in The American...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 2, 2016 | Founders, Government, James Wilson, Natural Law, New, Quotes
“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.” James...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 25, 2016 | Debt, Economics, economy, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Subject, Thomas Jefferson, Topics
“I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.” James...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.” James Madison, letter to Jacob de la Motta, August 1820
