More great thoughts by Calvin

Posted July 2, 2006 in The Fond du Lac Reporter

Perhaps Founders weren't liberals

America's founders were liberals? Let's review:

Jefferson: "You seem…to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Would Jefferson appreciate activist judges forcing gay marriage and eminent domain on Americans?

Hamilton: Armies "can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens." Spoken like a true NRA man.

Washington: "Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens … Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?" He opposed religion influencing America? Yeah, right.

Madison: "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." Sounds to me like an indictment of big-government liberalism.

Samuel Adams: "He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections." "Clinton only lied about sex," anyone?

Some "liberals" those Founding Fathers were.

Calvin Freiburger

Fond du Lac

Keep'em coming Calvin