To: trisham; DJ MacWoW; FReepers; All
At noon on this date in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as our first president under the new U.S. Constitution:
"I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years..."
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789; Fitzpatrick 30:291
525 posted on
04/30/2012 3:16:03 PM PDT by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: RedMDer
"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission.
We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die." ~George Washington
Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island (27 August 1776
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529 posted on
04/30/2012 3:32:18 PM PDT by
trisham
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