Issues
Issues | Be Informed, Be Aware, Be Involved This section seeks to provide you with current information you must have to understand what is happening in our country so you can become appropriately involved. It is important you discern the value and principles that guide your elected officials. Are they guided by beliefs in liberalism, conservatism, capitalism, socialism, Marxism, etc. This will help you determine who to support and who to oppose. “Knowledge is Power”. The Importance of Information and Knowledge – Quotes from our Founders The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765 I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, September 28, 1820 Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822 No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Trustees for the Lottery of East Tennessee College, May 6, 1810 |