THE FOUNDATION "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams (1814) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York.
THE FOUNDATION "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to.
THE FOUNDATION "I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance." Thomas Jefferson (1821) Publisher's Note At the end of each year, I ask my editors and staff to take leave between Christmas and New Year's Day to be with their.
THE FOUNDATION "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign.