The Patriot Post — Founders’ Quote Daily “Your love of liberty – your respect for the laws – your habits of industry – and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (letter to the Residents of Boston, 27 October 1789) Reference: Maxims [...]
28 Dec, 2005
Posted by: DeWaun In: Notable Quotables
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love; the Source of all that endearing Tenderness and Affection which arises from Relation and Affinity; the grand Point of Property; the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what [...]
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” – Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Dickinson, 1801) Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Ford Edition, 8:76
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different [...]
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “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) Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 1:209.
The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington (Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789) Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. [...]