THE FOUNDATION "They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." John Adams (1775) Fellow Patriots, it took nearly two hundred years but on this day in 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House. In today's news, Christianity is declining and.
THE FOUNDATION "Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules." Thomas Jefferson (1801) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1947, President.
THE FOUNDATION "In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator." Samuel Adams (1794) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged by the British in New York City. The teacher-turned-spy famously.
THE FOUNDATION "Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind." Thomas Jefferson (1822) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1780, Benedict Arnold betrayed the Patriot cause by giving the.
THE FOUNDATION "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." James Madison (1788) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1863, the Confederates prevailed in the Battle of Chickamauga, but as Union casualties poured into nearby Chattanooga, Mary Edwards Walker was there to tend their wounds..