Quote Of The Day

Feb 26th, 2012

"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
-- George Washington

Quote Of The Day

Feb 22nd, 2012

"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion."
-- George Washington, 1797

Quotes Of The Day

Feb 3rd, 2012

"All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.


It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. 

For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens."

-- George Washington

Or, to put it more simply...

"The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."

-- John Adams

Newt Calls Himself "Historian"

Jan 5th, 2012

And then there's this from Buzz Feed:

"Newt Gingrich is already in New Hampshire and kicked off his day with a town hall meeting in Concord. Gingrich fielded a number of questions about drug policy, including one from a man who said that many in the Live Free or Die state don't like the federal government's involvement in stopping weed growing operations. "Would Thomas Jefferson or George Washington be arrested for growing marijuana?" the man asked.

Gingrich responded, "I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today."

Gingrich, a historian, did not mention that both Washington and Jefferson grew hemp on their plantations." EMPHASIS OURS

The First Of Its Kind

July 4th, 2011

What follows this introduction is the first inaugural address given in these United States. As we celebrate this day as as that of our nation's birth, marking the same day in July of 1776, I find it notable that the first swearing in of a President did not come until a little less than fifteen years later. Great things don't come cheap. They don't come easily. And, most importantly, they don't happen overnight.

It took a long time to get from the day of declared independence to April 30th, 1789. But get there we did.