Page 152 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the

greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
 “The consequences arising from the continual accumulation

of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be
careful to prevent their growth in our own.”

 “The general principles on which the fathers achieved
independence, were ... the general principles of Christianity,

in which all those sects were united, and the general
principles of English and American liberty, in which all those

young men united, and which had united all parties in
America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her

independence. Now I will avow, that I then believed and
now believe that those general principles of Christianity are

as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of
God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable

as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.”

 “If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I
should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the
most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were

an atheist of the other sect, who believe or pretend to

believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that
chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to

all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise,
almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the

great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of
all civilization.”

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