James Madison on the value of public opinion

The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.” –James Madison

Thomas Jefferson on the government machine

Thomas Jefferson predicted an activist Judiciary!

The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression…that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;…working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing [...]

Terence P. Jeffrey smells a rat in Bush’s Budget

Reading over President Bush’s new budget can officially make your head spin or explode. Well, HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE editor, Terence Jeffrey decided to do just that. He has been hot on the trail of the border sercurity issue and has listed some of the identifiable allocations in the most recently proposed budget. Among those allocations [...]

Joseph Story on the future of freedom without Worship of God

The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of [...]

George Washington on equal liberty in America

The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this [...]

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