tag:patriotpost.us,2005:/feed/fqdThe Patriot Post — Founder's Quote Daily2024-03-18T10:14:16-04:00tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1052862024-03-18T10:14:00-04:002024-03-18T10:14:16-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views." —Thomas Jefferson (1781)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1052452024-03-15T09:52:00-04:002024-03-15T09:52:24-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions." —Thomas Jefferson (1808)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1052132024-03-14T10:59:00-04:002024-03-14T10:59:09-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake." —George Washington (1796)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1051842024-03-13T10:40:00-04:002024-03-13T10:40:17-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men." —Alexander Hamilton (1787)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1051532024-03-12T10:49:00-04:002024-03-12T10:49:48-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." —Thomas Jefferson (1816)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1051152024-03-11T09:57:00-04:002024-03-11T09:57:20-04:00Founder's Quote Daily"Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good." —Oliver Ellsworth (1787)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1050552024-03-08T09:22:00-05:002024-03-08T09:22:52-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." —Benjamin Franklin (1735)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1050222024-03-07T09:54:00-05:002024-03-07T09:54:57-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain." —James Madison (1788)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1049872024-03-06T10:38:00-05:002024-03-06T10:38:13-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check." —Thomas Jefferson (1811)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1049522024-03-05T11:07:00-05:002024-03-05T11:07:54-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." —John Adams (1797)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1049162024-03-04T10:40:00-05:002024-03-04T10:42:17-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government." —Alexander Hamilton (1788)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1048742024-03-01T10:29:00-05:002024-03-01T10:29:19-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"The great leading objects of the federal government ... are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense." —Alexander Hamilton (1788)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1048402024-02-29T10:45:00-05:002024-02-29T10:45:23-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." —Samuel Adams (1772)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1047992024-02-28T10:06:00-05:002024-02-28T10:07:00-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness." —George Washington (1789)tag:patriotpost.us,2005:DailyQuote/1047642024-02-27T10:53:00-05:002024-02-27T10:53:47-05:00Founder's Quote Daily"Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices." —Alexander Hamilton (1791)