Friday, November 20, 2009

American Spirit

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times." --George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Leadership that made America Great !!!

"[T]he great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm." --George Washington, letter to Charles Pettit, 1788

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Patriot Post

"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" --Benjamin Franklin, to Colleagues at the Constitutional Convention

Monday, August 10, 2009

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THE FOUNDATION

"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?" --Thomas Jefferson

Patriot , Ben Franklin

"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them."

--Benjamin Franklin, letter to Collinson, 1753

Monday, July 20, 2009

Patriot Post

"Let justice be done though the heavens should fall."

--John Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, December 5, 1777

Friday, July 3, 2009

Patriot Post

"Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."

--Leviticus 25:10 Inscription on the Liberty Bell

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Patriot

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."

--John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

Monday, June 29, 2009

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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."--Benjamin Franklin (attributed), letter to Benjamin Vaughn, March 14, 1783

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Patriot Posts

"Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow."

--Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757

Monday, June 22, 2009

Patriot

"The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it."--James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, Circa, 1790

Monday, June 15, 2009

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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit."--James Madison, Federalist No. 51, February 8, 1788

Friday, June 12, 2009

Patriot Post

"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men."

--George Washington, General Orders, August 23, 1776

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Patriot Post

"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."--Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Patriot Post

"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression ... that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped."--

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Patriot Post

"There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.... In fact it is only reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right...."

--James Madison, letter to James Monroe, October 5, 1786

Friday, May 15, 2009

Patriot Post

"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect."-

-James Madison, to an unidentified correspondent, 1833

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Patriot Popst

"[I]t is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand....The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty."--John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams, 21 June 1776

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Patriot Post

"In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator."

--Samuel Adams, letter to the Legislature of Massachusetts, 17 January 1794

Thursday, April 30, 2009

He Was Right

"Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party generally. ... A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."--George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796

Friday, April 24, 2009

Patriot Post

THE FOUNDATION

"If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Patriot Post

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."--James Madison, Federalist No. 45

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Patriot Post

"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of
'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs.' That's socialism. It's
written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax
return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to
him."

--accountant and Commissioner of Internal Revenue T. Coleman Andrews (1899-1983)

Monday, April 6, 2009

From today's Patriot Post

CULTURE"Most of our nation's great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. ... Do you believe that it is moral and just for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another? And, if that person does not peaceably submit to being so used, do you believe that there should be the initiation of some kind of force against him? Neither question is complex and can be answered by either a yes or no. For me the answer is no to both questions but I bet that your average college professor, politician or minister would not give a simple yes or no response. They would be evasive and probably say that it all depends. ...[That] is because they are sly enough to know that either answer would be troublesome for their agenda. A yes answer would put them firmly in the position of supporting some of mankind's most horrible injustices such as slavery. After all, what is slavery but the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another? A no answer would put them on the spot as well because that would mean they would have to come out against taking the earnings of one American to give to another in the forms of farm and business handouts, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and thousands of similar programs that account for more than two-thirds of the federal budget. There is neither moral justification nor constitutional authority for what amounts to legalized theft. This is not an argument against paying taxes. We all have a moral obligation to pay our share of the constitutionally mandated and enumerated functions of the federal government. ...[But] now that the U.S. Congress has established the principle that one American has a right to live at the expense of another American, it no longer pays to be moral." --George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams

Friday, April 3, 2009

From Washington"s Farewell Address

"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position."--George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796



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Friday, March 27, 2009

Benjamin Franklin

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, circa 1774

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Monday, March 23, 2009

From The Patriot Post

GOVERNMENT

"All of Obama's economic policies thus far are designed to drive America into full embrace of socialism. His chief means for this transformation: inflation. He is attempting to inflate the currency through two primary means: intense deficit spending, and pushing up production costs through union subsidization. In order to make these measures politically palatable, he cites FDR as an example of good deficit spending; he cites the credit crunch as an excuse for inflationary monetary policy; and he recommends unionization in order to boost wages. It's a beautiful strategy for purposefully trashing capitalism, all the while blaming capitalism for its own downfall. John Maynard Keynes, the liberal economist who championed government intervention during recessions, recognized Obama's inflationary strategy for what it is: 'Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency,' said Keynes. 'Lenin was certainly right. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.' Obama pursues inflation -- government devaluation of the currency -- with the zeal of the newly converted. His deficit spending will be financed either through higher taxes or through inflation. Obama says he will push higher taxes -- after all, he wants to appease the Chinese, who don't want their U.S. securities paid off with inflated dollars. But covertly, Obama fully intends on inflating the currency to pay of the massive deficit he has shoved through Congress. ... It's the same tried and true policy that created the Great Depression."

--columnist Ben Shapiro

Friday, March 20, 2009

Abuse of Power

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.

--Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 23 February 1775


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Patriot Post

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."

--Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

Monday, March 16, 2009

Words of Wisdom

"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened."

--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Patriot Post

"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virture to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust."

--Alexander Hamilton or James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 19 February 1788

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

From Patriot Post

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."--Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Remembered

On this day in 1924 Virginia Ann Hilsheimer was born. Virginia and I became high school sweethearts in the late 1930s and were married after I returned from WW II in 1946.
In honor of her life , I share one of her favorite poems:

How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Repeating History ?

I can remember the great depression of the 1930s. As a child six years of age in 1930, I had little understanding of the political and economic reasons for what was happening at the time. Since that period impacted my life in so many ways, in later years I've tried to learn about the causes of that great depression, and find that many economists who have made a study of that period of our history, say the government intervention by both Hoover and Roosevelt turned a 2 year recession into a 10+ years depression. Looks like we are now doing the same thing over again. I guess it is true that we either learn from history or repeated it.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Google's AdSense Program

Today I enrolled in Google's AdSense Program. Soon you will see links to useful information helpful in our goal of responsible Freedom in all aspects of our lives. Hope you find it useful.

Blessings,
Everett