John Adams: Why We Must Insure Free, Fair, Virtuous, and Independent Elections
LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of...
Jefferson: Silence False Information by Reason Not by Force
LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL
I am ... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and...
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY, 1776
INTRODUCTION
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit...
Definition of a Slave – Samuel Adams
FOUNDERS CORNER: SPEECHES, PAMPHLETS, LETTERS, QUOTES
Sam Adams, July 16, 1788
For your use I subjoin the following creed of every good American :—I believe that...
Novanglus Essay No. 2 – John Adams
Adams will pursue all the dark intrigues and wicked machinations and show the rise and progress of British schemes for enslaving this country.
Novanglus Essay No. 1 – John Adams
John Adams lays out the American position on the natural rights of individual Americans and the rights enjoyed by all colonial governments under British law.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, by John Milton
FOUNDERS CORNER: LETTERS, SPEECHES, PAMPHLETS
1644, by John Milton
TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND
This is true Liberty, when freeborn men,
Having to advise the public, may...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
FOUNDERS CORNER: SPEECHES, PATRICK HENRY
St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism,...
Washington’s Farewell Address
With slight shades of difference you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. George Washington
Benjamin Franklin – Satire On Extreme Notions of Freedom of the Press
FOUNDERS CORNER: LETTERS: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For the Federal Gazette, 12 September 1789
An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature In Pennsylvania, Viz. The Court of...
Republican Principles Versus the Corrupt Practice of Electioneering — 1788
An Elector: To the Free Electors of This Town
Boston, 1788
The theory of republican government took for granted a number of institutions and practices rarely...
Do THIS only, and the vast majority will support us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
... that all should be satisfied with any one order of things is not to be expected: but I indulge the pleasing...
Does government help or hurt?
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
when we consider that this government is charged with the external & mutual relations only of these states, that the states themselves...
5 steps to maintain public trust over public money
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
In our care too of the public contributions entrusted to our direction, it would be prudent to multiply barriers against their dissipation,...
James Madison: Federal Powers Limited, State Powers Indefinite
FOUNDERS CORNER: LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND FEDERALISM
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to...
The value of skill and bravery combined!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
... you have shewn to your countrymen that that enemy cannot meet bravery & skill united. in proving to them that our...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
FOUNDERS CORNER: SPEECHES, PATRICK HENRY
St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism,...
Beware! The government will tax you into poverty!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
... considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependancies, & to increase expence to the ultimate term of burthen which the...
Which is better, much knowledge or a little experience?
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I am anxious to hear from you, lest you should have suffered in the same way now as on a former similar...
Where is the beef? RIGHT HERE!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
... this morning arrived the quarter you were so kind as to send me of the Mammoth-veal . tho’ so far advanced...