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To: jmacusa

Such a grasp of the subtleties and complexities of history, the motivations of men, and the system of checks and balances engineered by Madison.

A republic . . . if you can keep it.


40 posted on 05/22/2016 7:50:58 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

It was John Adams who said “We have won us a country, if we can keep it’’.


41 posted on 05/22/2016 7:59:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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