Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Matt Cameron, Musician (1962) |
Joe Dante, Director (1946) |
Alistair Darling, Politician (1953) |
Friedrich Engels, Philosopher (1820) |
Carol Gilligan, Psychologist (1936) |
Ed Harris, Actor (1950) |
Gary Hart, Politician (1936) |
Matsuo Basho, Poet (1694) |
Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1954) |
Washington Irving, Writer (1859) |