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George Washington
George Washington föddes den February 22nd 1732 och dog den 14 December 1799 - (1789-97).
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 with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff. |
| 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world |
| "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... 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 |
| (Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme |
| [As the issue was being debated, George Washington wrote to Lafayette in Paris with the observation that] It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states (which states you know are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national government, so little liable to well founded objections.. ... We are not to expect perfection in this world. |
| [Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution.] From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto. |
| [Katrina has prompted Bush to make vaulting promises.] As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality, ... what a lot of Americans saw was ... some poverty that they had never imagined before, and we need to address that. |
| [Many Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject. Thomas Jefferson said,] What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... A free people ought to be armed. |
| [She said she learned at an early age] who were the good guys and who were the bad guys and who was going to pick on the weak. ... Sometimes its the people with the most power who are abusing it. |
| [With shutters clicking and flashes popping, Wilson demanded anew that Rove be fired.] I made my bones confronting Saddam Hussein and securing the release of over 2,000 Americans in hiding in Kuwait, ... Karl Rove made his bones doing political dirty tricks. This is not about Joe Wilson. |
| A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite |
| A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. |
| A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing. |
| A peace establishment ought always to have two objects in view; the one, present security of posts and of stores, and the public tranquillity; the other, to be prepared, if the latter is impracticable, to resist with efficacy the sudden attempts of a |
| A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it |
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