by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.” James Madison, essay on Property, March 29, 1792
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 1, 2015 | Government, Philosophers, Polybius, Quotes
“Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. Aristocracy by its very nature degenerates into oligarchy; and when the commons inflamed by anger take vengeance on this government for...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 1, 2015 | Government, Philosophers, Polybius, Quotes, Subject
“democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence” as the people grow more “accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others.” Polybius – The...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 25, 2015 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Paine
“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.” Thomas Paine – Courtesy of theeconomiccollapseblog
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 25, 2015 | Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” John Adams, 1765
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 25, 2015 | Constitution, Debt, Economics, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the...
