by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.” John...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.” John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (9 July 1813) Courtesy of Wiki Quote...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Economics, Education, Founders, John Adams, President, Quotes
“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 20, 2013 | Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“”Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, Constitution, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“And these[great Natural Rights] may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Quotes
Writing about our Constitution in Federalist 1, Alexander Hamilton said: “Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or...
