Founding Father's Quote (belated) Friday!
(My my. Yesterday was Friday? So soon? My apologies!) Here is today’s Favorite Founder’s Quote Friday on a Saturday.
And today’s quote comes from our first President (that is, first president under the Constitution of the United States), General George Washington. It comes from his original draft of his First Inaugural Address, but the manuscript (which is missing portions) was never completed, and Washington decided to give a shorter address. The words written in that first draft, however, are well worth remembering. It follows the same line of thought that was expressed in last Friday’s “Favorite Founder’s Quote.”
If the blessings of Heaven showered thick around us should be spilled on the ground or converted to curses, through the fault of those for whom they were intended, it would not be the first instance of folly or perverseness in short-sighted mortals. The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest of purposes. Should, hereafter, those who are intrusted [sic] with the management of this government, incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of [parchment] can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
5 Responses to “Founding Father's Quote (belated) Friday!”
August 10th, 2008 at 2:31 am
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!! I’ve never read that before! That should be printed up and released from planes across the country!
August 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am
Yes, Mrs. Mecomber — it should! Thanks for commenting!
BTW, you are welcome to join this little meme of mine; I think that it would help get the word out. And maybe you could link to this quote. It’s not the same as flying a plane, but it’s something!
God bless your weekend!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Wonderful quote! Thanks for sharing it with us all!
God Bless!
August 16th, 2008 at 11:23 am
This is excellent. Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful things that you find.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Thanks, Jean, for reading! And, your welcome. It’s my pleasure.
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