Daily Quote 12/25-29/2006
Monday, 12/25/06.
"How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."
--Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1743); Reference: Poor Richard: The Almanacks, for the Years, 1733-1758, Intro by Van Wyck Brooks (111)
Tuesday, 12/26/06.
"There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious."
--Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 29, 10 January 1788); Reference: Hamilton, Federalist No. 29.
I query as to this dilemna, and have decided it is right and just to support our Troops. Other troops, however, trouble me. Therefore I suggest you must be more clear.
Wednesday, 12/27/06.
"To restore...harmony,...to render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot."
--Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas McKean, 1801); Reference: 63 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Ford Edition, 8:78
Amen.
Thursday, 12/28/06.
"The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon...has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."
--James Madison (Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798); Reference: Virginia Resolutions, 1798.
If only we could still do this...
Friday, 12/29/06.
"Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come."
--George Washington (letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 28 May 1788); Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (398)
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"How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."
--Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1743); Reference: Poor Richard: The Almanacks, for the Years, 1733-1758, Intro by Van Wyck Brooks (111)
Tuesday, 12/26/06.
"There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious."
--Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 29, 10 January 1788); Reference: Hamilton, Federalist No. 29.
I query as to this dilemna, and have decided it is right and just to support our Troops. Other troops, however, trouble me. Therefore I suggest you must be more clear.
Wednesday, 12/27/06.
"To restore...harmony,...to render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot."
--Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas McKean, 1801); Reference: 63 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Ford Edition, 8:78
Amen.
Thursday, 12/28/06.
"The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon...has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."
--James Madison (Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798); Reference: Virginia Resolutions, 1798.
If only we could still do this...
Friday, 12/29/06.
"Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come."
--George Washington (letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 28 May 1788); Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (398)
Founders' Quote Daily is a service of The Pat riot Post, the most widely read conservative journal on the Internet. If you would like to receive Founders Quote Daily, and this highly acclaimed Digest of news, policy and opinion delivered FREE by e-mail to your inbox, link to: PatriotPost.
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