Washington talks of a United America

The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to [...]

Iran Leader Calls for Israel’s Destruction

***SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES*** This is about as plain as you can get…Iran wants Israel wiped off the face of the earth! Ahmadinejad says “Destroy Israel!” — TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, [...]

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 [...]

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