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Thomas Jefferson Quote, The Natural Progress Of Things

By Tina Didreckson On March 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Thomas Jefferson

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Federalist Number Three, Border states will be the most likely, by direct violence, to excite war with other nations

By Steve Straub On July 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Federalist Papers, John Jay

“The bordering States, if any, will be those who, under the impulse of sudden irritation, and a quick sense of apparent interest or injury, will be most likely, by direct violence, to excite war with these nations; and nothing can so effectually obviate that danger as a national government, whose wisdom and prudence will not [...]

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Samuel Adams Poster, Truest friend to liberty will not elect anyone without wisdom and virtue

By Steve Straub On July 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Posters, Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams, Truest friend to liberty will not chose into any office of power anyone not wise and virtuous

By Steve Straub On July 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Posters, Samuel Adams

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George Washington, In dangerous times make sure you elect the best possible people to Congress

By Steve Straub On July 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In George Washington, Posters

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George Washington, Letter to Major-General John Sullivan

By Steve Straub On July 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded [...]

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Abigail Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 18, 1804

By Steve Straub On July 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Abigail Adams

 In no country have calumny, falsehood and reviling stalked abroad more licentiously than in this.

No political character has been secure from its attacks ; no reputation so fair as not to be Wounded by it, until truth and falsehood lie in one undistinguished heap.

Party spirit is blind, malevolent, uncandid, ungenerous, unjust and unf…orgiving. [...]

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John Witherspoon, On Leadership, A Sermon Delivered at a Public Thanksgiving after Peace

By Steve Straub On June 5, 2011 · 15 Comments · In John Witherspoon, Uncategorized

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant? fidelity from the profligate? assiduity and application to public business from men of a dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the management [...]

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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Pt. I, Ch. 13

By Steve Straub On June 2, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Thomas Hobbes

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men’s at a distance.

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