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Abraham Lincoln: The people can be depended upon, if given the truth

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:22:19 -0600

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

James Madison: Gradual and silent encroachments on freedom

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:23:24 -0600

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

-- James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

Tom Hoefling interviewed by Steph Watts, May 11, 2012

Sat, 12 May 2012 17:16:20 -0600

Bob Enyart endorses America's Party presidential nominee Tom Hoefling - Listen to the interview

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:20:28 -0600

Bob Enyart Live

Don't Throw Away Your Vote: Refusing to throw his vote away, Bob Enyart announced today that he is voting for America's Party presidential candidate Tom Hoefling! ...check out America's Party platform at SelfGovernment.US.

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James Wilson: It is the securing of natural rights that legitimizes government

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:05:45 -0600

"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind."

--James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

Bob Enyart to interview Tom Hoefling - 3 pm Mountain time - Mon. May 7, 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 21:56:39 -0600

Bob Enyart LIVE

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Bob Enyart will interview America's Party's 2012 presidential nominee Tom Hoefling

3 pm Mountain time

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James Madison: "Persons and Property, the two great subjects on which Governments are to act"

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:30:07 -0600

"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated."

-- James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention, 1829

Alexander Hamilton: "The sacred rights of mankind"

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:22:27 -0600

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."

-- Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

George Washington on political parties

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:32:00 -0600

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."

-- President George Washington, Farewell Address

Andrew Jackson on those who hold government jobs for a long time

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:24:22 -0600

"No man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Those who hold government jobs for a long time are apt to acquire a habit of looking with indifference upon the public interests, and of tolerating conduct from which an unpracticed man would revolt."

-– Andrew Jackson