Specter 0 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 "When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection." --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 71 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BlueRose_76 0 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Ok, found this one today (not as deep as soto's) 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.' - De Ordening, Kees van Beijnum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the 'latent spark'. ... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 "It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth." --James Madison Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Major Maximum 0 Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 ""to bizzle or not to bizzle, that is the quizzle, fo shizzle" --William Snoopspeare Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruin 17 Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 A good founding father quote: "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." — Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Author Share Posted February 19, 2004 "Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." --James Madison Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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