“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government.”-- Franklin
Monday, September 17, 1787
" However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. " --Washinton's Farewell Address |
Saturday, September 17, 1796
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" --Jefferson Declaration of Independence
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Thomas Paine Common Sense, 1776
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” Voltaire (1694–1778)
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