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Democracy and Limits to Power

by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 9, 2015 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Subject

“Democracy is bound by no principle of its own nature to say itself nay as to the exercise of any power.” Woodrow Wilson, Unpublished Essay: “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887

Alexander Hamilton on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject

“Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to...

William Cobbett on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Quotes, Subject

“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.” – William Cobbett

John Adams on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, John Adams, Quotes, Subject

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.” – John Adams, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican

Ben Franklin on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Ben Franklin, Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject

“When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin

James Madison on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, James Madison, Quotes, Subject

“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.” – James Madison, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican
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