Great Charles Krauthammer Quote

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1. Dewey says:

   Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 10:59 pm

   here’s my favorite Founding father quote:

   “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…” –John Adams
2. Tina says:

   Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 11:14 am

   Your favorite quote to which you assign progressive ideals.

   1. Government instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety…: If we are to believe the thousands of other Founding Father quotes, we can safely surmise that their thinking was the common good of the various states, since the union of the various states was the purpose for forming a common federal government. Even if it wasn’t, the Constitution they wrote called for very limited power at the federal level.

   2. Government is instituted for the…prosperity, and happiness of the people…: The Founders wrote a constitution that called for the greatest power to be vested in the people and the states understanding that through individual effort and pursuit the people could achieve happiness and prosperity. the Founders were well aware of the dangers of a too powerful governing body and did everything they could think of to limit giving power to governing bodies.

   3. Government is instituted…not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…: John Adams rightly warns once again that giving too much power to governing bodies or to any individual man is dangerous and leads to oppression. He is adamantly advocating for the individual and for individual power to achieve profit, honor, and private interest!

   Here are a few quotes to support my own interpretations:

   Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. – John Adams, 1765

   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. – James Madison, Federalist 45, 1788

   he 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 Madison, Federalist 14, 1787

   It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. – James Madison, Federalist 48, 1787An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. – James Madison, Federalist 84, 1788

   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. – James Madison, Federalist 47, 1788

   Pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. – James Madison, Federalist 10, 1787

   I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to David Hartley, 1787

   We may define a republic to be…a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. – James Madison, Federalist 39, 1788

   One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.– James Otis, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761

   The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. – John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787

   Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own. – James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792

   A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801

   As for the “less fortunate” you have a moral obligation to help them personally!!!!! You do not have the right to force assistance on any other…all such efforts were deemed by our founders to be tyrannical.

   The same goes for attempting to use the force of government to limit and restrain the innovation, production, and industry of fellow citizens…all such efforts to do so are tyrannical.

   Try to have a nice day Dewey. You are blessed to have been born in a free republic. As such you have the right, and are responsible, to pursue profit, happiness, and property to what ever degree you wish without being subjected to overbearing, oppressive government (At the behest of unscrupulous and ignorant fellow citizens.)

   Thanks to Bill of Rights Institue for the above quotes.
3. Dewey says:

   Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 8:54 pm

   http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-433069

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