Quotes and Realities
- Eternal Wisdom And Principles In Government
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"I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have understanding and power. By me kings reign and rulers make laws that are just; by me princes govern, and all nobles who rule on earth.1 I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full. 'The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began....' "
1 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts and nobles - all righteous rulers
- Proverbs 8:12-23 (NIV)
- Alexander Hamilton
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"The attempt by the rulers of a nation [France] to destroy all religious opinion and to pervert a whole people to atheism is a phenomenon of profligacy [act of moral depravity].... [T]o establish atheism on the ruins of Christianity [is] to deprive mankind of its best consolations and most animating hopes and to make a gloomy desert of the universe."
- Alexander Hamilton: Attorney; Captain of artillery in the Continental Army, Lieutenant-Colonel and aide-de-camp to General Washington, member of the Continental Congress, member of the New York State Assembly, delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he signed the Federal Constitution, member of the New York State ratification convention for the Federal Constitution, one of the three co-authors, along with James Madison and John Jay, of the Federalist Papers which were instrumental in securing the ratification of the Federal Constitution, appointed Secretary of U.S. Treasury by President George Washington, appointed Inspector General with the rank of Major-General, Hamilton called Aaron Burr dangerous and held a poor private opinion of him, causing Burr to challenge Hamilton to a duel in which Hamilton was killed.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 151: originally quoted from Hamilton, Alexander, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, edited by Syrett, Harold C. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), Vol. XXI, 402-404, “The Stand No. III,” April 7 1798.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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