This post will serve to begin an exploration of the founding principles for the United States of America.  The purpose being to familiarize us all with the viewpoints and beliefs of our nation’s founding fathers.

To start this whole thing off:

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.” —Benjamin Franklin