by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“In questions of power … let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort …. This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,… nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has … is violated by arbitrary seizures of one...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes
George Washington, in his Farewell Address, reminded Americans of the need to preserve the Founders’ system. He spoke of the “love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart” and warned of the “necessity of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I call you to witness that I was the first member of Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my ‘Thoughts on Government,’ …in favor of a government with three branches, and an independent...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison
