Thoughts for the Day and Week
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Five quotes that have significant relevance to our current national debate on the nation's debt and lack of fiscal responsibility, the value of restrained government and limited taxation, the rights of individuals to retain the fruits of their labor, and the importance of an independent and just judiciary. "The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, and both should be checks upon that." --John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776 "To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have...