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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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"Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone speaks out it is an outrage" Winston Churchill
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Sep 19, 20251 min read
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“Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman
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Sep 18, 20251 min read
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sep 17, 20251 min read
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"The people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing and publishing their sentiments; therefore the freedom of the press ought...
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Sep 15, 20251 min read
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"If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them."...
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Sep 12, 20251 min read
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"No right was deemed by the fathers of the government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all...
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Sep 11, 20251 min read
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"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be...
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Sep 10, 20251 min read
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“It is only the present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about that warrants Congress in setting a limit to the...
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Sep 8, 20251 min read
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“Hitherto charters have been written grants of privileges by governments to the people. Here they are written grants of power by the...
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Sep 5, 20251 min read
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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 4, 20251 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 3, 20251 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 2, 20251 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 28, 20251 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 27, 20251 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 25, 20251 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 22, 20251 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 20, 20251 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 19, 20251 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 18, 20251 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 14, 20251 min read
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