Founding Issues
Liberty

1. "Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.17
2. "There is a natural and necessary progression, from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny; and arbitrary power is most easily established, on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.20
3. "Republicanism in not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.20
4. "If we mean to support the liberty and independence, which it has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.25
5. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis - a conviction in the minds of the people that ese liverties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I relflect that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep forever." - United States Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, "Jefferson's Writings", Merril D.Peterson,ed (NY: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), p.289, from Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", Query XVIII, 1781

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