WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States […]
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George Washington: “An Instrument in the Hands of Providence”
George Washington is one of the most significant men in all of history. Regarding the direct advancement of civil and political liberty in the earth, he may well be the most significant champion in all history. Certainly he was the central figure of bringing a new era of liberty to the world in modern times. […]
George Washington and His love of American Liberty
I claim [George Washington] for America . . . To him who denies or doubts whether [America’s] fervid liberty can be combined with law, with order, with the security of property, with the pursuits and advancement of happiness; to him who denies that our forms of government are capable of producing exaltation of soul, and […]
The Bulletproof George Washington
Thank you to James Rose, American Christian History Institute, for this article (book available from David Barton’s Wallbuilder) about The Bulletproof George Washington: The Bulletproof George Washington George Washington’s part in the July 9th, 1755, battle during the French and Indian War is indisputably one of the most significant events of his early years: his […]
Father of Our Country – George Washington
George Washington is known affectionately as “The Father of Our Country” and rightly so! According to David Barton of Wallbuilders: “Probably no individual outside of Jesus Christ had a greater impact on American life and culture. As President Calvin Coolidge acknowledged nearly a century ago: “Washington was the directing spirit without which there would have […]
Happy Birthday on PRESIDENTS DAY to WASHINGTON and LINCOLN
Dear Friends, we honor past presidents of the U.S.A. – all of them but particularly George Washington, the Father of the Country (my favorite, my hero), and also Abraham Lincoln (although he certainly was the first of the big-government interventionist presidents). I have some furthering comments and quotations from these astute gentlemen of past years, […]
National Thanksgiving Under Washington’s Administration
A resolution was adopted in the House of Representatives, September 25, 1789, in the following words- On motion- Resolved, ‘That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a day of thanksgiving, and […]