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Founder’s Quote – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Founder’s Quote

Saint of the Day for January 27:  St Angela Merici (March 21, 1474 – Jan. 27, 1540)
January 27, 2018
Daily Reading & Meditation:  Saturday (January 27)
January 27, 2018
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We the People

“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 people; these must continually interfere with the state laws and thereby produce disorder and general dissatisfaction till the one system of laws or the other, operating upon the same subjects, shall be abolished.” —Federal Farmer (1787)

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