Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Lazare Carnot
Born: May 13, 1753
Died: August 2, 1823 (aged 70)
Bio: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot, the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.