Quote of the day...

David Ramsey

"No form of government can make a vicious and ignorant people happy. When the majority of our citizens becomes corrupt, even our well ballanced constitution cannot save us from slavery and ruin. Let therefore be the unceasing study of all who love their country, to promote virtue and dispense knowledge through the whole extent of our settlements. Without them our growing numbers will so degenerate into barbarism; but with them the citizens of the United States bid fair for possessing, under the new constitution, as great a share of happiness, as any nation hitherto enjoyed."

David Ramsey's Oration at Charleston, South Carolina, Delivered May 27, 1788