The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked like Brett Favre it just keeps coming back.
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may...
War contains so much folly as well as wickedness that much is to be hoped...
The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether...
Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded...
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages they...
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans...
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens...
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be...
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong wrong will generally be done.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty but also by the abuse of...
Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No...
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of...
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty...
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true...
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle...
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be...
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to...
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger...
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the...
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of...
In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently...
Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.
The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the...
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who...
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness...
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human...
The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property...
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must...
The essence of Government is power and power lodged as it must be in human...
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them...
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to...
War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and...
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it...
