Compare and Contrast.....Monday Morning Quotes

So, to help all of us keep track of one set of values over another, Progressives vs the Founding Fathers, I thought I would start a Monday post dedicated to this compare and contrast. No commentary from yours truly, just the quotes as they stand by themselves.Oh, and I am not even pairing it along similar subjects. Just random quotes thrown together that hopefully will present a mosaic of the beliefs of each side.



"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
Baden, Germany


Compared to;

“State legislatures will always be, not only the vigilant, but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens against encroachments from the federal government.”

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers # 26