10 December 2010

Quotes for Friday

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

~ George Washington, July 19, 1791 (from a letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham)


Tranquility reigns among the people with that disposition towards the general government which is likely to preserve it ... Our public credit stands on that [high] ground which three years ago it would have been considered as a species of madness to have foretold.

~ George Washington, July 20, 1791 (from a letter to David Humphreys)



Note the dates; then think on our Progressive "friends" who refer to the Constitution as a dusty old document ... and want to go beyond it, somehow.

Do you understand now?

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