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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 "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...
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 "To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established ... are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering." —Thomas Jefferson...
THE FOUNDATION "There is no good government but what is republican. [T]he true idea of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'" —John Adams (1776) On this day in Patriot history in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a small band of U.S. Marines conducted a daring naval raid into Tripoli...