by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes, Religion
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” George Washington’s...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.” William Blackstone Courtesy of Brainy Quote (BrainyQuote.com)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Quotes
“The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.” William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:120–41
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes, Religion
“No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.” Courtesy of Brainy Quote (brainyquote.com)
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 15, 2013 | Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” –Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the Patriot Post (PatriotPost.us)
