A Few Thoughts Worth Reflecting On
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Let us not forget... "History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions, how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable: The advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth." Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749 "The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787 "[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ough...