THE FOUNDATION "There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty." John Adams (1776) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1787, the Constitution.
THE FOUNDATION "I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful." Fisher Ames (1789) Fellow.