Founding Fathers Moments

THIS IS A FOUNDING FATHERS MOMENT ON GRASSROOTS AMERICA WE THE PEOPLE….

Official eulogy of George Washington, delivered by Richard Henry Lee, December 26, 1799…
Quote…First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform dignified, and commanding; his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private charter gave effulgence to his public virtues. Such was the man for whom our nation morns …Close quote

LET US LEARN FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND NEVER FORGET…AND NEVER FORGET. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THIS IS A FOUNDING FATHERS MOMENT ON GRASSROOTS AMERICA WE THE PEOPLE….

Dr. Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention which had just approved the Constitution of the United States of America, September 1787, looking towards the convention’s president’s chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising sun from a setting sun. “I have,” said he, “often and often in the course of this session and the vicissitude of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”

LET US LEARN FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND NEVER FORGET…AND NEVER FORGET. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THIS IS A FOUNDING FATHERS MOMENT ON GRASSROOTS AMERICA WE THE PEOPLE….

James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention for the Constitution of the United States, June 10, 1788…

Quote…How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism….Close quote

LET US LEARN FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND NEVER FORGET…AND NEVER FORGET. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THIS IS A FOUNDING FATHERS MOMENT ON GRASSROOTS AMERICA WE THE PEOPLE….

From John Adams…dated February 22, 1756, from his personal diary…….

QUOTE … Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love and reverence toward Almighty God…What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be….CLOSE QUOTE

LET US LEARN FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND NEVER FORGET…AND NEVER FORGET.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.