Daily Quote(s) 9/24/2005

Friday, September 16, 2005
"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments." --Alexander Hamilton (letter to James Bayard, April 1802), Reference: Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton, Frisch, ed. (511)

Has anyone ever considered the fact that we, the people, never signed on the UN? Just a thought...

Monday, September 19, 2005

"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." --Samuel Adams (letter to John Trumbull, 16 October 1778), Reference: Original Intent, Barton (320); original The Writings of Samuel Adams, Cushing, ed., vol. 4 (74)

Off with his head! (Says the Americans Communist Legal Union) Doesn't he know the Constitution? Oh, wait a minute...didn't his Daddy have something to do with that? I'll bet that's how he got his job! (j/k)

Wednesday, September 21, 2005
"I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out." --James Madison (speech to the Congress, 9 April 1789)

Amen, brother!