Founder’s Quote

“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation […]

“I do recommend and assign Thursday … next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, […]

“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which […]

“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” —Fisher Ames (1788)