Year: 2018

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government. – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 70, 1788 The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. – Nathan Hale, before being hanged by the British, September 22, 1776 I love my country, not my government. – Jesse Ventura

The times that tried men’s souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 13, 1783 The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. – Milton Friedman

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular. – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Hugh White, May 2, 1801 Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States. – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 32, January 3, 1788