Suspect Everyone

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. Patrick Henry Virginia Ratifying Convention June 5, 1788

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A Feeble Executive

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government. Alexander Hamilton Federalist No. 70 March 15, 1788

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Rebellion To Tyrants

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Evening Post December 14, 1775

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Democracy

Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams Letter to John Taylor April 15, 1814

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I Would Rather

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Archibald Stewart December 23, 1791

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