We already know that dead people can vote, but here’s a new one for you: they can plagiarize, too. A few years ago, I read …
Santayana (in The Life of Reason, 1905): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Life of Reason, subtitled “the Phases …
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. —James …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 Aug 1749 – 22 Mar 1832), a German writer and statesman wrote Elective Affinities. The title is taken from a scientific …
Quote from the Eighth Annual Message to Congress, delivered by Thomas Jefferson on November 8, 1808: “For a people who are free, and who mean …
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, CF Adams, ed., Vol. 9, p. 229, Oct. 11, 1798, Boston: Little, Brown, …
James Madison (1751-1836) helped frame the Bill of Rights, member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776 and 4th President of …
Patrick Henry, speech before the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788: “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will …
In a letter to Marquis De Lafayette, February 7, 1788, George Washington wrote this: [T]he [federal] government . . . can never be in danger …
This is actually a translation of a Latin phrase that Thomas Jefferson used: Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. It has also been translated as, …
