If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a
Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and
Laws - the first growing out of the last. . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the
vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Alexander Hamilton:
The aim of every
political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virture to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them
virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.
Alexander Hamilton and
James Madison.
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
Richard Henry Lee.
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if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
In
Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power.
America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.
James Madison.
Do you stand with the founding fathers or do you stand with today's socialist's the few dictating the control of the masses where liberty is only a buzz word with no real meaning? Are you for the new
Pledge of Allegiance?
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