[StBernard] Ideas for the new St. Bernard

[Westley Annis]

A few quotes from the main framer of our nation's constitution:
 
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their
only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with
His wrath?" --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVIII, 1782. ME 2:227 
 
"The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness." --Thomas
Jefferson to James Monroe, 1782. ME 4:196, Papers 6:186 
 
"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a
second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is
reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but
for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME
15:40 
 
"A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is
personally responsible for his society." --Thomas Jefferson to George
Hammond, 1792. ME 16:263 
 
"We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations
as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated will ev er be found
inseparable from our moral duties." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural, 1805.
ME 3:375 
 
"Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the
private code of morality." --Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 1815. ME
14:313 
 
"[I consider] ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the
government of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Augustus B. Woodward, 1824. ME
16:19 
 
"Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect
institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of
principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on
the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept
off as long as possible." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. ME
15:325 


This is WHY.


Michelle