The Liberty Tribune
Our blog consists of vineyard happenings, winemaking insights, event highlights,
and selected quotes from Founders!
Stand on Principle
"Always stand on principle, even when you stand alone."
Politics and War <> Mathematics and Philosophy
"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." - letter to Abigail cerca 1780.
Liberty Preservation
"Liberty cannot be preserved with a general knowledge among the people."
Meaning of American Revolution
"What do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? ... The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the People...This radical change in the principles, opinions,...and affections of the People, was the real American Revolution."
Liberty and Knowledge
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they 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."