Why has government been instituted at all?
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” – Alexander Hamilton Reference: Hamilton, Federalist No. 15.
Free or Bound under the Law
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” – Candidus (in the Boston Gazette, 20 January 1772) Reference: Original Intent, Barton (259); original Boston Gazette (January 20, [...]
Thomas Jefferson on giving to other countries
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want; but to see also that they are faithfully distributed, and duly apportioned to the respective wants of those receivers. And why give through agents whom we know not, to persons whom we know not, and [...]
How the Founders felt about religion and law
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “[[L]aw, natural or revealed, made for men or for nations, flows from the same Divine source: it is the law of God… Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine…] Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are [...]
Samuel Adams on the nature of a moral and educated citizenry
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” – [...]
Remember the Declaration
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers [...]
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