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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
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“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” ...
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Apr 241 min read
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Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the UK I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then...
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Apr 231 min read
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“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.” Walt Whitman - American Poet and essayist
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Apr 221 min read
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Alexander Hamilton “A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated, and the exercise of the...
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Apr 211 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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Apr 171 min read
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“In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom.” Phyllis Wheatley
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Apr 161 min read
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"It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of...
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Apr 151 min read
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“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the...
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Apr 141 min read
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” James...
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Apr 101 min read
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“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of...
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Apr 91 min read
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“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” Cotton Mather, American writer and politician (1663-1728)
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Apr 71 min read
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“The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes, the greater the need the prince has of money to distribute among his...
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Apr 51 min read
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke
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Apr 41 min read
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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of...
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Apr 31 min read
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania
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Apr 21 min read
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"The coffers are empty, the taxes almost unendurable, the people are in a bad humor, the money discredited, the army magazines exhausted,...
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Apr 11 min read
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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam in...
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Mar 311 min read
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th...
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Mar 281 min read
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“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is...
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Mar 271 min read
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“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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Mar 261 min read
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