by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 9, 2013 | Government, Quotes, Uncategorized
An Observation on Democracy Incorrectly attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler The most interesting observation is how closely the US has followed this scenario. “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The happy union of these states is a wonder, their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world. Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either!” “Outline” of the relationship between...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country…. I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and the relations of this...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes
“This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people…No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression…....
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“[The Constitution] is … the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” John Adams letter to Rufus King, 26 December 1787, quoted in a letter from King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February 1788, in the Life and...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Is it not the glory of the people of America that, while they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names to overrule the suggestions of their own...
