Founding Issues
Security

  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. "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

  3. "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

  4. "If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His [God's] notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We've been assured in the sacred writing that, 'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.'"

    - United States Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, On the floor of the Constitutional Convention, "Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787", James Madison, (1787, reprinted NY: W.W. Norton Company, 1987), p. 504, August 22, 1787

  5. "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an invevitable chain of causes & effects, Providence [God] punishes national sins by national calamities."

    - United States Founding Father, "The Father of the Bill of Rights", George Mason, On the floor of the Constitutional Convention, "Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787", James Madison, (1787, reprinted NY: W.W. Norton Company, 1987), p.

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