John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States 1787 But of all the words in all languages, perhaps there has been none so much abused in this way as the words republic, commonwealth, and popular state. In the Rerum-Publicarum Collectio, of which there are fifty and odd volumes, and many of them very

March 1792 This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.” In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every

12 June 1779 Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds, that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: That all attempts to

1536 (Stokes 1:110) III. The opinion entertained by some persons, that . . . all civil magistrates were strangers to the profession of Christianity, is a mistake, for want of considering the great distinction, and the nature of the difference, between the ecclesiastical and civil power. For the Church has no power of the sword to

(From: Hume, David. Essays Moral, Political and Literary. 1742, 1752.) 1752 The greatness of a state and the happiness of its subjects, how independent soever they may be supposed in some respects, are commonly allowed to be inseparable with regard to commerce; and as private men receive greater security in the possession of their trade and riches

William H. Peterson, Lundy Professor of Philosophy of Business at Campbell College, Buies Creek, North Carolina, writes of inflation: . . . there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction

Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 20, CHS. 1–8 1748 1.–Of Commerce The following subjects deserve to be treated in a more extensive manner than the nature of this work will permit. Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is

John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 95–99 1689 A.D. 95. Men being, as has been said, by Nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this Estate, and subjected to the Political Power of another, without his own Consent. The only way whereby any one devests himself of his Natural Liberty, and puts

Thanks to an utterly corrupted state run educational establishment (centralized education being one of the long term goals of the Communist Party USA that were realized) our nation has come under the dangerous delusion that America’s Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. But they didn’t. They gave us a republic, or as Adams and Jefferson put

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious