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2015 March 27
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"Our Founders warned us that all republics have eventually fallen into tyranny -- the only difference being the relative timeline of each republic's descent. ... From the summer of 1787 when our Framers deliberated over their magnificent Constitution, we have recognized that the clear statement and equal application of the Law is among the most critical duties of any government. If we allow ourselves to lose this, we may as well be back in ancient Rome, subject to the whim of every petty tyrant in the taxing bureau or the zoning board. For it doesn't matter whether the regulator's foot is shod in a jack boot or a Roman sandal; if he can hold you down with that boot upon your neck, then we are no longer in the America that our Founding Fathers intended for us." |
"The doctrine of blind obedience and
unqualified submission to any human power,
whether civil or ecclesiastical,
is the doctrine of despotism,
and ought to have no place
among Republicans and Christians." |
"When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists." |
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2015 March 26
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"The American Republic will endure, until politicians
realize they can bribe the people with their own money." |
"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic." |
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing." |
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2015 March 24
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"The poorest man may in his cottage,
bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown.
It may be frail, its roof may shake;
the wind may blow through it;
the storm may enter; the rain may enter;
but the King of England may not enter;
all his force dares not cross the threshold
of the ruined tenement." |
"A republic is not an easy form of government to live under,
and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded,
democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over." |
"Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments." |
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2015 March 23
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"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any." |
"They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." |
"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty
if we expect our republic permanently to endure.
Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite
to efficient service to the public.
Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life;
it matters not how brilliant his capacity." |
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