What is a Legitimate Government?

 ”Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.”  –James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

Founding Fathers on the Media

 “During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and [...]

The Rights of Man

 “All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by [...]

Rights of People and Property by James Madison

 “It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.” –James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention, 1829

Don’t Lose Your Vision

Some Summer Thoughts Do you know why a car’s windshield is so large & the rear view mirror is so small? Because our past is not as important as our future. So, look ahead and move on. Friendship is like a book. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write. All [...]

Tax Return the Government Did Not Like

My tax return…returned  Deductions: Yesterday I got my Tax Return “Returned” by the IRS. I guess it was because of my response to the line, which said “List All Dependents” So, I replied: 12 million illegal immigrants 3 million crack heads 42 million unemployable people on food stamps 2 million people in over 243 prisons [...]

Alexander Hamilton’s Faith As One of our Founding Fathers

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” –Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

Founding Father Wisdom

  “The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.” –James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1788

Are you part of the Problem

If you don’t want to forward this For fear of offending someone – YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak up!

Walk with me as I age…

A BEAUTIFUL POEM ABOUT GROWING OLDER: Walk with me by the water… Crap…I forgot the words…