“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From …
John C. Calhoun, in a speech on 5/27/1836 said: “A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many …
President Andrew Jackson had Secretary Taney read a statement to the Cabinet that Jackson and Taney had prepared on why the deposits should be removed, …
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial …
Thomas Jefferson said the following in a Letter to John Adams, dated January 21, 1812: “I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and …
Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes …
President George Washington in a letter to Edmund Randolph, July 31, 1795: “I am not disposed to quit the ground I have taken, unless circumstances …
This is the story of a famous quotation and the environments in which it has adapted and survived. To the 20th and 21st centuries, the …
This was Franklin’s final and most famous description his personal faith. He offers a concise “creed” and expresses skepticism about the Divinity Jesus. He …
Dr. Benjamin Rush to Jeremy Belknap, July 13, 1789: “The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual …
