You probably have seen the authors of, The New Founders in a variety of media including Fox and Friends and The Dennis Miller show. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Joseph Connor and Michael Duncan and they were excited to have finished the book. They were gracious enough to give me a signed copy.
The New Founders attempts to bring the founding fathers back to life to deal with the crisis we face. The book is filled with historical references and exact quotes. While reading it I was reminded how the wisdom that led to the founding of this country still applies hundreds of years later. George Washington returns and teams up with team talk radio to run for President.
The New Founders is filled with historical references wrapped around a compelling conservative fantasy. What would happen if we had a conservative Presidential candidate who wasn’t afraid to steadfastly stand behind conservative principles, who wasn’t afraid of the liberal media, and who was committed to the American idea of liberty.
I just finished reading, The New Founders and now I’m going to give my signed copy away to one of you. To stick with the theme of the book I’ll send the signed copy to someone who comments with their favorite founding father quotes on hyperlinked.
If you would like to purchase the book you can click on this link or anywhere I use the title of the book above.
Dear Dustin, being a Vet and reading your post hits home.
I simply cannot tell you how angry I am at what has been done to My/Our Country. In the words of our Founding Father, George Washington:
“The time is now near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.”
George Washington 1776
“Government is not eloquence, it is not reason, it is power. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master” – George Washington
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse” – James Madison
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson
The founding father I choose is not a ounmding father, rather a mother. Maratha Washington cared for the troops in the cold winter, she gave them what she had. cloth to wind around their feet.She supported her husband even when all looked as a lost cause. Praise God for hearing the prayers of all those brave men. Would we today have the stout haeart lke those in Valley Forge. I really wonder if we would fight, or just give up?
” Men who will not be governed bo God will be ruled by tyrants ”
William Penn
Looking on at what is happening today, I think the founding fathers would immediately turn around, and re-write the constitution in 6th grade language with very short sentences.
My favorite quote is a Franklin quote: “When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.”
P
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
George Mason suggested this wording of the First Amendment
Perhaps we need a constitutional amendment to make this wording be placed in the Fisrt Amendment so that the ACLU,CAIR and all the other anti God anti Religion (except Islam) groups could be not only silenced but disbanded once and for all. Allowing God and Country into the Classrooms of America is not some form of indoctrination, rather it is a way of affirmination of the country and society that we were both founded on and based upon. We as a nation have lost our way and with such we may well lose our country. All great countries or Empires are not destroyed from without but from decadence within. Rome is burning as Obama fiddles
Thomas Jefferson:
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”
This is my favorite quote and SO applicable to today
it wont get better pick’n at it. – john wayne
John Adams: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew…and then we shall save our country.” – A. Lincoln
I can’t but help re-quoting from “The Patriot Post” the other day:
“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please…Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.” –Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791
Most every thing the founding fathers said is worth quoting. My favorite would have to be from Thomas Jefferson. “How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy.” Amen and Amen.
We have taken Liberty for granted and all that has gone before to insure that it continues for each generation. May God forgive us and permit us to try again.
John Adams said in 1798 in his Address to the Officers of the First Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
…I’ll send the signed copy to someone who comments with their favorite founding father quotes on hyperlinked.
What is hyperlinked? How do I comment there if I don’t know what it is?
Anyway, here is my favorite founders quote:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” … Ben Franklin
“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.”
Thomas Paine
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Thomas Jefferson’s words are perhaps more appropriate today, than ever before. It seems that as we lose our liberties, there are too many that idly stand by and say nothing.
“ When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.
Bubba
mY “Police Action” was the Korean War. I am a 80 yr. old vet. still going strong. I have seen MY country go down hill since 1953. I often think that its time for a revolt. We are ruled by 2 party dictatorship with a royalty of 523. My quote to the next president is by Harry Trueman……”If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen”
And I think its time for the revolt………..
Thank You for your service, Sir.
GOD Bless You.
My favorite Thomas Jefferson quote is:
1776 July 4. (Declaration of Independence) “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 the pursuit of Happiness.”
Most of the Jefferson quotes circulating on the internet are not, in fact, quotes at all. Every one I have seen, upon further research, has been shown to be untrue.
“Believing that a representative government, responsible at short periods of election, is that which produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind, I feel it a duty to do no act which shall essentially impair that principle.”
-George Washington
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli”~~~~The ending of Muslim pirates in Tripoli seizing American ships and taking American sailors hostage. More
than anything today, we need to remember this piece of history. You cannot compromise with evil and ransom only encourages more ransom.
Give me liberty or give me death!
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear government, there is tyranny”. Thomas Jefferson
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”. Thomas Jefferson
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
my qoute of a founding father that I love love love is : “The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“An armed society is a polite society”, T. Jefferson
“Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
George Washington: The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. –First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
Don’t know the exact quote, but according to the founding fathers, only a Christian was fit to hold office.
“We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it” Ben Franklin
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” John Adams
A man was asked “What do you concider the greatest threat to the Republic, ignorance or apathy?” He replied “I don’t know and I don’t care”. Unknown
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry 3/23/1775
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry 3/23/1775
If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.
G.Washington to delegates to the Constitutional Convention
Wow, it’s so hard to choose just one quote by my favorite founding father, because Ben Franklin said so many great things! I love what he said to the woman who asked what form of government the founders had given us. He said, “We have given you a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” So relevant for today.
“Government is not eloquence, is not reason, it is force and like fire can be a faithful servant or a fearful Master”
President George Washington
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson
It is not a living and beeathing document, it is a Constitution to live by and honor.
I’ve been around a long time and I’ve voted in every Presidential Election since 1960.
I’m very concerned about the upcoming election and the potential disastorous outcome if the current President is reelected. In the past I’ve voted both Democrat and Republican but I don’t vote strickly for one party’s candidate. I vote for the person I feel will best lead our country as the founding fathers intended. That brings to mind a quotation from Patrick Henry – “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
“If ever time should come ,when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Goverment,our country will stand in need of it’s experienced Patriots to prevent it’s ruin.” Samual Adams
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say “what should be the reward of such sacrifices?” Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! Samuel ADams, 1776
I pray this book becomes another illuminator for the American public. The more we each speak up and share the ideals of our country’s founding and speak the truth of how liberty can be lost, the more liberties we will keep. “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” –John Adams
As my 10th Great Grandfather wrote: “One small candle may light a thousand…” –William Bradford, from his journal, 1630. So, if every American spoke just one fact of wisdom about our liberties, the battle would be won.
Thanks for the kind words! MD
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale,American Soldier
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?” – Benjamin Franklin, Continental Congress, turning point in the establishment of the United States Constitution
My favorite quote comes from the Declaration of Independence – “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 the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” – Thomas Jefferson
My favorite quote is by George Mason, the “Father of the Bill of Rights” and one of the
“Founding Fathers” of the United States, when he proclaimed:
“The common law of England is not the common law of these states.” (Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 19 June 1788).
George Mason was the Author of Virginia Bill of Rights, State Lower House of Virginia 1776-1780, 1786-1787, Virginia State Constitutional Convention 1776
1787 Constitutional Convention Contributions: Arrived May 25 and was present through the signing of the Constitution, however he did not sign the Constitution. Initially Mason advocated a stronger central government but withdrew his support toward the end of the deliberations. He argued that the Constitution inadequately represented the interests of the people and the States and that the new government will “produce a monarchy, or a corrupt, tyrannical aristocracy.”
ex animo
davidfarrar
Why is the media is so pandering to Obama and refusing to ask tough questions of him,
I think Thomas Jefferson had the right philosophy!
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
If we are afraid to question with boldness, we deserve the lies we get for answers!
Or this one from a firebrand of the Revolution – “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” ― Samuel Adams
From Thomas Jefferson and still holds true today:
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
Favorite – the full George Washington quote: “Government is not reason, it is not elegance, it is force; like fire a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Second favorite – Abraham Lincoln: “In all that the people can do individually as well for themselves, the government ought not interfere.”
I chose Thomas Jefferson, while he has so many quotes being circulated on the internet, it is only because he has proven so quoteable in this time and with these problems. On the left wanting to tax business to create more government jobs and dependence, I point to this quote.
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” George Washington
May we all put forth those “Exertions” at this most important time in our country’s brief history, that we may defeat the enemy and continue the great experiment that is the United States of America! Long live “That shining light on the Hill!
My Favorite Founding Father Quote (correction): George Washington ~ “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible behavior.”
If ever a time should come when vain and inspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of it’s experienced patriots to prevent it’s ruin.
Samuel Adams Father of the American Revolution
I believe we should take Samuel Adams’ statement to heart. It does seem that such a time is present.
After going to prayer when the founders could not come to agreement on the Constitution Ben Franklin was asked about “What type of constitution they agreed upon” he replied “A Republic if you can keep it.”
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. –Ben Franklin
Give me Liberty or Give Me Death. Patrick Henry
Message from John Adams to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massacusetts
John Adams
October 11, 1798
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
From federalist #62: It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
“Liberty once lost, is lost forever.” John Adams
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
John Adams
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” – Thomas Jefferson
ost appropriate:
“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” –George Washington
I am a vet ans as such I love my country deeply. It bothers and saddens me deeply when I read how the government wants to meddle into our very lives. Therefore, my favorite founding father’s quote is by Patrick Henry ~ “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
Long live and God Bless our Constitutional Republic – The United States Of America!
My favorite quote of our founding fathers is one that Thomas Jefferson eloquently stated about government. “The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” – Thomas Jefferson. Today our government rules as a tyrannical fascist state with Obama at the helm. He is clearly a very dangerous, divisive, and dishonest politician who seeks his glory in the most narcissistic of fashions, likening himself to some kind of international world leader and cult of personality.
In the beginning of the contest with Britain, we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered…do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
Benjamin Franklin, June 28,1787
Washington, when asked if he would be king of the US, said something to the effect, ‘I am trying to get away from King George III, so why would I want to be King George I here in this land.’
Now we have Obimbo the King here?
Here’s my favorite.
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…”
Dustin, did you get a chance to read The Political Spectrum: Freedom vs. Enslavement?
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…” Thomas Jefferson
Sorry, I missed the author!
Beer Is Proof That God Loved Us and Wants US t be Happy!!!
Ben Franklin
Re: Founding Fathers Favorite quote:
A nation as a society forms a moral person. And every member of it is personally responsible for his society. Thomas Jefferson
“Beer is Proof That God Loves Us and Wants US to be Happy”!!!
Ben Franklin
Sorry my last comment had errors due to the computer I am using. Some keys were not perating properly!!!
Rick Lindsay
As American Christians we need to be as willing as our founders to acknowledge our dependence on Jesus Christ for the survival of our great REPUBLIC.
This is one by Patrick Henry that most people have never heard.
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
From George Washington:
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. Never, for a moment, should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Here’s another favorite, from Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural, speaking of the blessings of our nation:
“With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens – a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circ le of our felicities.
Earlier, same address, another favorite:
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
The powers delagated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
James Madison THE NEW FEDERALIST, No45
Patrick Henry
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
‘…GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!!’ patrick henry, st john’s church, richmond, va, where i grew up
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation, one is by sword, the other is by debt.”
John Adams
I, too, have signed the contract & sworn the Oath to defend the Constitution.
My time in Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children was in the late 70′s early 80′s.
My favorite “quote” is Patrick Henry’s speech….Best parts for me are as follows.
“The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.”
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
” Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
As I said above I took the Oath, it bound me while I was young & in uniform, it binds me still.
Semper Fidelis,
ADB
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the constitution, which granted a right to congress of expending on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. James Madison (during the third congress)
“There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God.” John Adams 2nd president of the United States. The founders unlike today’s so called leaders seemed to understand humility as a virtue not a weakness.
“There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God.” John Adams 2nd president of the United States. The founders unlike today’s so called leaders seemed to understand humility as a virtue not a weakness.
Due to current events and the erosion of freedom due to fear, I like, I believe Jefferson who said, “Those who would give up liberty for security, deserve neither liberty or security”,
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Ben Franklin
General Omar Bradley, one of the most popular generals of World War II, in his address on Armistice day, 1948, stated, “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount….. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants!”
- John Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, 1980), p.825
Thomas Jefferson – “Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson – “What country can preserve its freedom if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let the people take arms for the liberty tree of freedom must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
We need people today with the wisdom of our Founders to organize and do what is needed to restore our Constitutional Republic.
I believe political correctness has been used to dominate the masses by changing the speech and attitudes of the public. While some of it has been positive, much of the change is downright repressive and even oppressive. We give preference and deference to many except perhaps, Christians, who are not protected by hate speech or cruel rhetoric. We are mocked scorned and stereotyped as raving Bible thumping lunatics. With that, I am comforted by George Washington who is quoted to saying, ” It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
Dustin great Quotes you have received!. Your writings are being read!… I Need you to post the names of the RINOs that need to be remined of WE the PEOPLE and we vote!.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” Elias Boudinot, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (1782-3), Director of the US Mint, Founder of The American Bible Society, author of a complete rebuttal of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, with his book, The Age of Revelation, representing a time when real men were really educated.
Well doctor, what have we got? A Republic or a Monarchy? Benjamin Franklin’s response was “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
I’m wondering if we have reached the point where we no longer can keep it!
“With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man….The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.”
Samuel Adams