Your search for "safe guard" returned 12 results from 7 Founders.
James Iredell:"The House of Representatives[...] will represent the immediate interests of the people. They will originate all money bills, which is one of the greatest securities in any republican government."source: Elliot 4:39function of House, safe guard, legislation, creation of law
John Hancock:"We want not courage; it is discipline alone in which we are exceeded by the most formidable troops that ever trod the earth. Surely our hearts flutter no more at the sound of war than did those of the immortal band of Persia, the Macedonian phalanx, the invincible Roman legions, the Turkish janissaries, the gens d'armes of France, or the well-known grenadiers of Britain. A well-disciplined militia is a safe, an honorable guard to a community like this, whose inhabitants are by nature brave, and are laudably tenacious of that freedom in which they were born. From a well-regulated militia we have nothing to fear; their interest is the same with that of the State. When a country is invaded, the militia are ready to appear in its defense; they march into the field with that fortitude which a consciousness of the justice of their cause inspires; they do not jeopardize their lives for a master who considers them only as the instruments of his ambition, and whom they regard only as the daily dispense of the scanty pittance of bread and water. No; they fight for their houses, their lands, for their wives, their children; for all who claim the tenderest names, and are held dearest in their hearts; they fight pro aris et focis, for their liberty, and for themselves, and for their God."source: Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1774.military, war, courage, motivation to bear arms, defense, bravery, men at arms, liberty, faith
James Madison:"The appointment to offices is, of all the functions of Republican and perhaps every other form of Government, the most difficult to guard against abuse. Bive it to a numerous body, and you at once destroy all responsibility, and create a perpetual source of faction and corruption. Give it to the Executive wholly, and it may be made an engine of improper influence and favoritism."source: Observations on Jefferson's Draft Constitution, October 15, 1788.appointments, elections, balance of powers
William Penn:"What can we desire better than peace, but the grace to use it? Peace preserves our possessions; we are in no danger of invasions: our trade is free and safe, and we rise and lie down without anxiety. The rich bring out their hoards, and employ the poor manufacturers: buildings and diverse projections, for profit and pleasure, go on: it excites industry, which brings wealth, as that gives the means of charity and hospitatlity, not the lowest ornaments of a kingdom or commonwealth. But war ... seizes all these comforts at once, and stops the civil channel of society. The rich draw in their stock, the poor turn soldiers, or thieves, or starve: no industry, no building, no manufactury, little hospitatlity or charity; but what the peace gave, the war devours."source: "An Essay Twards the Present and Future Peace of Europe," 1693.peace, trade, foreign relations, war
Andrew Hamilton:"We ought at the same time to be upon our guard against Power, wherever we apprehend that it may affect ourselves or our Fellow-Subjects. ... Power may be justly compared to a great river which, while kept within its due bounds is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, is then too impetuous to be stemmed, it bears down all before it and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. If this then is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and likewise men use our utmost care to support liberty, the only bulwark against lawless power."source: Defense of Peter Zenger, 1735.power, authority, liberty, freedom, oppression
Thomas Jefferson:"For promoting the public happiness, those persons whom nature has endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens; and they should be called to that charge without regard to [...] birth, or other accidental condition or circumstance."source: Ibid., 2:221.responsibility of citizery, duty, uphold liberties, prejudice
James Madison:"Conscience is the most sacred of all property [...]. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience with is more sacred than his castle."source: Article in the National Gazette, March 29, 1792.property, rights, conscience, honestly
Thomas Jefferson:"The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered."source: Notes on Virginia, 1782.corruption, watchdogs, awareness, politicians
Noah Webster:"But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general--in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keep sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions, and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments. "source: "an Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution" October 17, 1787.education, knowledge, power, freedom, rights, balance of power, watchdogs
William Penn:"Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual wars. This civil dissension in the mind, like that of the body politic, commits great disorders, and lays all waste. Nothing stands safe in its way: nature, interest, religion, must yield to its fury. It violates contract, dissolves society, breaks wedlock, betrays friends and neighbors. No body is good, and every one is either doing or designing them a mischief."source: More Fruits of Solitude, 1702.envy, malace, jealousy, hatred, trust, honesty
Thomas Jefferson:"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree."source: Ibid. 2:207liberty, trust, government, education
Thomas Jefferson:"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitution power."source: Bergh, 15:278saftey, education, people government, abuse of powers

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