Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Jefferson’
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
"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
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
“hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821 [Read More]
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Friday, November 4, 2011 “The foundation on which all are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to George [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Friday, October 28, 2011 “This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 “The construction applied … to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power … ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the [Read More]
Founders Quote Daily
Monday, October 17, 2011 “Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 http://patriotpost.us/quote/2011/10/17/ [Read More]
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Thursday, October 6, 2011 “On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had [Read More]
