Quotes and Realities
- Trust In God - He Is Our Refuge
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"My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah [possibly meaning reflect or consider] Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you O Lord, are loving...."
- Psalm 62:7-11a (NIV)
- Thomas Jefferson
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"2. On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, [and] instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was past...."
- Thomas Jefferson: Attorney, Diplomat, Educator; member of Continental Congress, signer and principle author of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State under George Washington, Vice-President under John Adams, third President of the United States, founded the University of Virginia.
Quoted from: Photographic facsimile of Thomas Jefferson's letter to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12 1823. From Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress collection
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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