THE FOUNDATION "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." Thomas Jefferson (1802) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1941, work on Mount Rushmore that began in 1927 was completed. It's now a monument.
THE FOUNDATION "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." George.
THE FOUNDATION "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be.
THE FOUNDATION "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." James Madison (1788) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1881,.
THE FOUNDATION "A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." Thomas Jefferson (1817) On this day in Patriot history in 1812, the USS United States defeated the HMS Macedonian off the coast of Morocco, making Captain Stephen Decatur a national hero and fueling.