quotes

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

-Thomas Jefferson

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."

-Samuel Adams

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

-John Adams

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."

-Alexander Hamilton

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."

-Benjamin Franklin

The Cole Foundation works to support research and philosophy based on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg regarding the economy, ethics, civil law, and political theory.

“Only religion can renew and regenerate us. For it is assigned the highest seat in the human mind, observing below it the civic affairs of this world. Indeed, it transcends these worldly matters, as the pure sap of a tree rises up all the way to its very apex. From that height it looks out over earthly matters, just like someone in a tower or on a mountain observing the plains below.”

— True Christian Religion 601