Currently reading this:
Awesome would be an understatement. W. Cleon Skousen outlines 28 principles that the founders said must be understood in order for a people to enjoy peace and prosperity. A little taste:
"Justice can never be expected from laws arbitrarily passed in violation of standards set up under the laws of Nature or the laws of the Creator."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea." - James Madison (obviously chimerical isn't good, whatever it means... haha)
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
"But neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." - Samuel Adams
"And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education... reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion to religious principle." - George Washington
And while we're having fun...
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."
- Winston Churchill
"The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
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