A Founding Father Quote a Day - Week 3
09 Feb 2025 Reading time: 1 minuteThis is the third recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.”
”These are the times that try men’s souls.”
”.... the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them”
”Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.“
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty“
”Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.“
”When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred”
“… guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism“