Founder’s Quote

Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention — 1788 This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, […]

“Besides, to lay and collect internal taxes in this extensive country must require a great number of congressional ordinances, immediately operation upon the body of the […]

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen […]

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, […]