James Madison Tyranny - 1788

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"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."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 48, 1 February 1788)

Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 47.

Alexander Hamilton on the Constitution - 1802

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"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to
cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political
foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself
provides for amendments."

-- Alexander Hamilton (letter to James Bayard, April 1802)

Reference: Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton,
Frisch, ed. (511)

Ben Franklin on Living Well

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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746)

Reference: Franklin: Writings, Lemay, Library of America (1209)

George Mason on Elected Senators

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"Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves
in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than
of your state."

-- George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
14 June 1788)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State..., Elliot, vol. 3
(405)

Media Assault on the 2nd Amendment

http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/eoc/2007/pdf/eoc-20070827.pdf

While many groups are working on your behalf to protect our
Second Amendment rights, few are battling the anti-gun bias
in the liberal media more effectively than the MRC.

That's why the MRC's just released Culture and Media Institute
report "The Media Assault on the Second Amendment," is so
important in this boiling debate. This report clearly exposes
the liberal media's anti-gun agenda!

A. Hamilton & J. Madison on Laws - 1788

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"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made
by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they
cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;
if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or
undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the
law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 62, 1788)

Reference: The Federalist

Alexander Hamilton on human passions - 1788

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"To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to
conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in
the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and
beneficent sentiments of peace; and that to model our political
systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to
calculate on the weaker springs of human character. "

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 34, 4 January 1788)

Reference: Hamilton, Federalist No. 34 (208)