Today is the birthday
… of Jerry Lewis. He’s 82.
… of Erik Estrada of ”CHiPS.” Ponch is 59.
… of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli’s son Wolfgang Van Halen. He’s 17.
The individual most responsible for the U.S. Constitution was born on this date in 1751. That’s James Madison.
No government any more than an individual will long be respected without being truly respectable.
There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
[I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.