Page 175 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

 “No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is

stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of
liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The

accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and
judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,

and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may
justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

 “The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of
religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be

established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience
be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.”

 “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the

federal government are few and defined. Those which are to
remain in the State governments are numerous and
indefinite.”

 “The right of freely examining public characters and

measures, and of free communication among the people
thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual

guardian of every other right.”
 “The government of the United States is a definite

government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the
state governments, whose powers are more general.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”

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