Today's Founder Quote:
"Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of
a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or
punishment for disobedience."
--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 15

"Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes
unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same
truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their
present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of
hatred and revenge which they [sow] with a large hand will not fail to
produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway,
they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and
future risk countervailed by present gain."
- Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early
19th century U.S. president (letter to Francois de Marbois, 1817)
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"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that
John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people
like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making
them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out
to be outright traitors."
- Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference

"Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of
just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from
the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent."
--Fisher Ames