Posts Tagged ‘Founders Quote’
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, January 6, 2012 “This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1796 http://patriotpost.us/quote/2012/01/06/ [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, January 6, 2012 “This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1796 [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 “It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, December 16, 2011 “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, December 9, 2011 “May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” –George Washington, letter to the Hebrew [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free." [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, December 2, 2011 “The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Monday, November 28, 2011 “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, November 25, 2011 “The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be [Read More]
