Quote of the week

"America's Founding Fathers knew full well the kinds of troubles experienced by ancient Greece and Rome [where republics were first founded]. They knew how fragile [a republic] could be. A lady once asked Benjamin Franklin after the Constitutional Convention had drawn to a close what he had given the nation. The old man replied, 'You have a republic, madame. If you can keep it.' The founders knew that keeping a [republic] is often more difficult than starting one."

—Arthur W. Hunt III in The Vanishing Word