Quote of the Week

Sunday April 3, 2016:
"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones." -George Washington (Letter to James McHenry, August 10 1788)








Sunday May 31, 2015: 
"Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America, knit together as they are by so many cords of affection, can no longer live together as members of the same family; can no longer continue the mutual guardians of their mutual happiness; can no longer be fellow citizens of one great, respectable, and flourishing empire. No, my countrymen, shut your ears against this unhallowed language. Shut your hearts against the poison which it conveys; the kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, and enemies." --James Madison (Federalist No. 14)



Sunday May 17, 2015: 

“It is the best way to learn wisdom in time from the state of others; and if examples will not instruct and make us wiser, I confess myself utterly at a loss to know what will.” --Edward Wortley Montague (Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Ancient Republics)










Sunday May 12, 2015:

"There are bad examples which are worse than crimes, and more states have perished by the violation of their moral customs than by the violation of their laws." --Montesquieu (Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline)