Admonitions to Guard Your Freedom DID THEY SEE OUR DAY?
"The best institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.
Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness (laziness) or venality (open to bribes) of their constituents, over-leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity:
"The best institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.
Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness (laziness) or venality (open to bribes) of their constituents, over-leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity:
it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men, however
provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification, can be
pronounced everlasting and inviolable...
that no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other." George Washington
"Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.... particularly...the Executive branch...
The tendency of power to increase itself, particularly when exercised by a single individual...would terminate in virtual monarchy...
As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their constant attention to its preservation...
The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of faction -a spirit which assumes the character and in times of great excitement imposes itself upon the people as the genuine spirit of freedom, and, like the false christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior, seeks to, and were it possible would, impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty.
It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have entrusted power." William Henry Harrison
that no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other." George Washington
"Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.... particularly...the Executive branch...
The tendency of power to increase itself, particularly when exercised by a single individual...would terminate in virtual monarchy...
As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their constant attention to its preservation...
The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of faction -a spirit which assumes the character and in times of great excitement imposes itself upon the people as the genuine spirit of freedom, and, like the false christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior, seeks to, and were it possible would, impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty.
It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have entrusted power." William Henry Harrison
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