by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
Patrick Henry wrote on the back of The Stamp Act Resolves, passed in the House of Burgesses, May, 1765, a summary of the pivotal events preceding the Revolution. He ends with this admonition: This brought on the war which finally separated the two countries and gave...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Money
Benjamin Franklin was asked how he could explain the remarkable prosperity of the New England Colonies. Franklin replied: “Why, that is simple! In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It’s called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it to pay the government’s approved...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
The Faith of Benjamin Franklin: On March 9, 1790, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University: Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshiped. That the...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
On June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams wrote: The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite… .And what were these general Principles?...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
In his first Inaugural Address in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson stated: Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own federal and republican principles…. enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them...
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