However, George Washington decided to give this experiment a try. He set a lot of precedents in his first term...things like what he was called. Many people didn't know what to call him ("You Excellency"? "Your Highness"?). When someone suggested "Mr. President", Washington adopted it.
George Washington wasn't a perfect man. He had a spotty record as an officer in the French-Indian Wars. He made some colossal blunders as General in the Revolution. He had a massive temper that he had to learn to control. He chose incompetent subordinates in places due to their "experience" (Charles Lee) or outright traitors like Benedict Arnold.
However, he was steady, in control, a natural leader, learned from his mistakes, and knew goal of the war wasn't just to beat the British, but to secure independence for America.
He was the only man who could keep the coalition of disparate personalities like Southerners and New Englanders together during the Constitution process. He was smart enough to appoint Alexander Hamilton to run our treasury and stabilize our money.
George Washington deserves every accolade he's getting right now.
Many of those quotes are repulsive to many of those who have taken over the American left in recent years. The new party line these days is that the Founders were a mix of deists and atheists with not a kind word for Christianity.
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A bit exaggerated, but may we make good use of our liberty to spread light. Thanks, and here are a few from another soldier:
“No other book of any kind ever written in English—perhaps no other book ever written in any other tongue—has ever so affected the whole life of a people as this authorized version of the Scriptures has affected the life of the English-speaking peoples.”
In this actual world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down grade.
He will listen to and take part in reading some beautiful passages from the Bible. And if he is not familiar with the Bible he has suffered a loss.
He may not hear a good sermon at church. He will hear a sermon by a good man who, with his wife, is engaged all of the week in making hard lives a little easier.
I advocate a man’s joining in church work for the sake of showing his faith by his works.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.[38]
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.[39]
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.”[40]
It is better to be faithful than famous.
More: http://conservapedia.com/Theodore_Roosevelt#Religion_and_character
Did those quotes come from that book? If not, do your have the source(s)? I would like to put them in the CP article on George.