If the multiplicity and mutability of laws prove a want of wisdom, their injustice betrays a defect still more alarming: more alarming not merely because it is a greater evil in itself, but because it brings more into question the fundamental principle of republican Government, that the majority who rule in such Governments, are the safest Guardians both of public Good and of private rights.
Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?
(Source: backwoodshome.com)
"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all [Republicans], we are all [Democrats]. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world’s best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
— Thomas Jefferson
(Source: princeton.edu)
Be aware of those who say the United States is a democracy. The United States is a constitutional republic. Our system of government was never intended to be a democracy.
(Source: c4cg.org)
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
— The Constitution for the united States
(Source: usconstitution.net)
Former CIA head tells it like it is, and gets attacked by “reporters” on CNN.
(Source: non-intervention.com)
"The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
— Abraham Lincoln
(Source: constitution.org)
