From the Wisdom of our Founders

nhiemstra — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:07:22 +0000

“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.” ~Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

nhiemstra — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:23:03 +0000

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” ~Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

nhiemstra — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:20:48 +0000

“In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.” ~Samuel Williams

nhiemstra — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:42:50 +0000

“If the federal government should … make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” ~Alexander Hamilton

nhiemstra — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:56 +0000

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” ~Thomas Paine, American Crisis, No. 1, 1776

nhiemstra — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:52 +0000

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” ~Alexander Hamilton (1787)

nhiemstra — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:10:01 +0000

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” ~George Washington, letter to Edmund Randolph, 1795

nhiemstra — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:04:04 +0000

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“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” –Plato (c. 428-348 BC)

nhiemstra — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:02:42 +0000

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“The right of resisting oppression is a natural right.” ~Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

nhiemstra — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:27:36 +0000

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“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” ~James Madison