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The blog will consist of posts on places, people, events and writings related to American History. Information is derived from a variety of historical sources.
Please note that Events of the day are taken from multiple sites as is and may or may not include links back to those sites.
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“Our Constitution—like the Declaration of Independence before it—was predicated on a simple truth: One’s liberty, not to mention one’s...
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Sep 41 min read
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John Adams “On Wednesday the third day of this Month, the American Ministers met the British Minister at his Lodgings at the Hôtel de...
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Sep 31 min read
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“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” Charles de Montesquieu
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Sep 21 min read
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“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It...
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Aug 281 min read
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“The Bible, above all other books, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues...
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Aug 271 min read
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“Our history is not a story of perfection. It's a story of imperfect people working toward great ideals. This flawed nation is also a...
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Aug 251 min read
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“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men...
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Aug 221 min read
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"You are not the property of your masters. God never made one human being to be owned by another. Your right to be free, at any moment,...
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Aug 201 min read
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"The President ought to act under the strongest impulses of rewards and punishments, which are the strongest incentives to human actions....
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Aug 191 min read
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"The great art, therefore, in forming a good constitution appears to be this: so to frame it as those to whom the power is committed...
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Aug 181 min read
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"It is a first principle in political science that wherever the rights of property are secured, an aristocracy will grow out of it....
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Aug 141 min read
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"When the people behold in the Senate the countenance of an aristocracy, and in the president the form, at least, of a little monarch,...
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Aug 131 min read
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President William McKinley “The great essential to our happiness and prosperity is that we adhere to the principles upon which the...
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Aug 121 min read
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Not really a quote but more of a poem that was sent to James Madison during the Bill of Rights Debate by his friend Richard Peters Eleven...
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Aug 111 min read
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"Compare the free regions of the middle states, where a rich and noble cultivation marks the prosperity and happiness of the people, with...
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Aug 81 min read
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Francis Bacon “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
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Aug 61 min read
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“Knowing as we do that the foundation of national greatness can be laid only in the industry, the integrity and the spiritual elevation...
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Aug 41 min read
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“You are not all going to die. Only 2% of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time,...
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Aug 31 min read
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“Whatever state among us shall make piety and virtue the standard of public honor will enjoy the greatest inward peace, the greatest...
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Aug 11 min read
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"The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they...
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Jul 311 min read
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