George Washington Wednesdays, (The Words of Our Founding Fathers)

We finally have our "Real George Washington" book back!!! Yipppeee! I want to start reading it as a family together now! With the cold evenings, it should be fun to cuddle up and read about Washington out fighting for our freedom in the freezing weather! Wow. He went thru so much and yet was so humble about it. I wish I was more like him. So selfless. *sigh*
I should have more George Washington quotes when we get to reading it too! =)

"Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

-George Washington
1776 — General Orders Category: Patriotism

From Patriot Post

The Words of Our Founding Fathers, George Washington Wednesdays

"[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own."
--George Washington, letter to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1795
From Patriots Post

Worshiping Almighty God, George Washington Wednesdays

From "The Patriot Post"

"The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights."
-George Washington
1789 - to the Annual meeting of Quakers
Category: Religious Liberty
Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (533)

Our Constitution, Virtues and Freedom, George Washington Wednesdays

This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people...No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression...The balances arising from the distribution of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are the best that have [ever] been instituted." -George Washington

"The Constitution…approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men." -George Washington

From "The 5000 Year Leap"

This from an interview From former president Bill Clinton in an Interview on MTV's "Enough is Enough" Forum:

"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."

Progressive, Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, and OUR United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, TODAY.


Well, this is what I have to say, (or I will have Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine say it for me!)

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
- Benjamin Franklin


"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." -Thomas Paine


Know your enemy.
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." -Josef Stalin

Virtues, Laws of Nature, George Washington Wednesdays

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

George Washington
1789 - First Inaugural Address

"`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government."
George Washington
1796 - Farewell Address

The Words of Our Founding Fathers, George Washington Wednesdays

From "The Patriot Post"

George Washington
1789 - First Inaugural Address
Category: Virtue
"There exists in the economy and course of

nature, an indissoluble union between virtue

and happiness; between duty and advantage;

between the genuine maxims of an honest and

magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of

public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to

be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles

of Heaven can never be expected on a nation

that disregards the eternal rules of order and

right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

Reference: Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the U.S

The Words of Our Founding Fathers, George Washington Wednesdays---4

George Washington on "Happiness"!

"Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness." -George Washington

"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

The Words of Our Founding Fathers, George Washington Wednesdays

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest prop of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge in the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle... Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?" -George Washington

The Words of Our Founding Father's--Washington Wednesday

We have not had much time to read "The Real George Washinton" lately, and I really miss it! We bought a new book ("The 5000 year Leap") and have been reading it whenever we have the time, before bed. Really amazing book and helps put so much together that I have heard or read about, but did not know the meaning! But, back to George...I still miss him and might just have to sneak in a few chapters sometime! ha!ha!

Here are some more great quotes from this great man for you to read and digest today!

"The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period." George Washington

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass." George Washington

"If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."

-George Washington

The Words of Our Founding Father's--Washington Wednesdays

Truly a man of God, the faith and strength of George Washington never ceases to amaze me.
By reading about him, one can clearly see his faith in "Providence"! You can see God's hand at work in the founding and freedom of our country, no one can deny it, it is soo outstanding! You can see how Washington's men, much like the children of Israel, were not soldiers and men of war, experienced in combat! Most were farmers and merchants, men who had never faced flying bullets and strong forces, who far outnumbered them! In the same way the children of Israel, when on their way and entering into the promised land, were not people of war. But God was with them. He blessed them and help them fight their battles and become free people in their promised land! It is amazing to see God's hand at work, with the children of Israel, and with the men who fought and worked to found this country and bring it freedom. The miracles, and the forces that can only come from our great God, are seen everywhere in their daily lives! One can only stop and praise the Lord for the Mighty works He has done for His children!
I hope you enjoy today's quotes!
How true they are. Try applying these to your life!
In Christ,
Hannah

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."
George Washington

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government,our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." George Washington

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." George Washington