Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Thomas Paine About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,...
John Adams

John Adams

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION John Adams About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of...
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Edmund Burke About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”- Burke b. 1729 CE – d. 1797 CE A British statesman and political writer, Edmund...
Sir William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Sir William Blackstone About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Adam Smith About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the...
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Jean Jacques Rousseau About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”- Rousseau b. 1712 CE – d. 1778 CE Jean Jacques...