[OneWingedShark]

An interesting article I was pointed to recently and thought I'd share.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Aricles such as these are available in the free publication “Imprimus”.

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[benasawin]

Thanks for posting. I had received a hard copy of this in the mail from Hillsdale early this month. It is a good read. Thought about posting it myself at the time and very glad that you did.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks.

[YHAOS]

Coolidge was one of the brightest bulbs ever to reside in the White House.

“A spring will cease to flow if its source be dried up; a tree will wither if its roots be destroyed. In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.”
. . . . . Calvin Coolidge, “The Inspiration of the Declaration,” Speech at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

We have dried up the source of the spring. We have withered the roots of the tree. Now we shall reap the whirlwind.

[DJ MacWoW]

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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expence, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the Debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington

[TBP]

Excellent article. Proud of my alma mater.