“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.”
—Alexander Hamilton (179
“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.”
—Alexander Hamilton (179
“Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.”
—George Washington (1796)
“It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.”
—George Washington (1796)
“The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice.”
—Alexander Hamilton (1775)
“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?”
—Benjamin Franklin