THE FOUNDATION "Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands." —Thomas Jefferson (1784) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1607, three ships bearing 104 colonists came ashore at Cape Henry,...
THE FOUNDATION "It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which ... implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to...
THE FOUNDATION "To render the justice of the war on our part the more conspicuous, the reluctance to commence it was followed by the earliest and strongest manifestations of a disposition to arrest its progress. The sword was scarcely out of the scabbard before the enemy was apprised of the...
THE FOUNDATION "The general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any." —James...
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THE FOUNDATION "Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the...
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THE FOUNDATION "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man." —James Madison (1787) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1861, the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, opening the War Between the States. As was often the case in that war, the battle...
THE FOUNDATION "If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice."...