“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” John Adams
Category: Freedom
Virtue and Knowledge
“If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enlav’d. This will be their great security.” – Samuel Adams
If a Nation Expects to Be Ignorant and Free
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . It expects what never was and never will be.” -Thomas Jefferson
The Christian Religion
Noah Webster said, “No truth is more evident in my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights of a free people.”
The Bill of Rights
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” – Patrick Henry The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. It limits the power of…
It Is Impossible to Enslave a Bible-Reading People
Horace Greeley said, “It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
When The Wicked Rule, The People Mourn
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2