Sphere: Related ContentHaving now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.– George Washington (Address to Congress on Resigning his Commission, 23 December 1783)
On October 8, 2008, In Uncategorized, By stix1972
On October 6, 2008, In Conservative Principles, By stix1972
Sphere: Related ContentLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.– John Adams (Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765)
On October 1, 2008, In Conservative Principles, By stix1972
Sphere: Related ContentI trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society.– Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 1788)
On September 16, 2008, In Conservative Principles, By stix1972
The freedom and happiness of man…[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.– Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810)
On September 9, 2008, In Conservative Principles, By stix1972
Sphere: Related ContentIn a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.– James Madison (Federalist No. 52, 8 February 1788)
On September 8, 2008, In Conservative Principles, By stix1972
Sphere: Related ContentFinally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seed thrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry.– Benjamin Franklin (Positions to be Examined, 4 April 1769)
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