Author: Jonathan Paine

E Pluribus Unum – The Love of One, the Preservation of the Other
September 4, 2018 No Responses

E Pluribus Unum – The Love of One, the Preservation of the Other

      1796 “While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionally greater security...
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What’s in It for Me? – George Washington’s Farewell Address
August 28, 2018 No Responses

What’s in It for Me? – George Washington’s Farewell Address

      1796 “But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the...
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The Name of American & Slight Shades of Difference
August 14, 2018 No Responses

The Name of American & Slight Shades of Difference

      1796 “For this [protecting your unity] you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of America...
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Palladium – How America Lost Her Unity
August 7, 2018 No Responses

Palladium – How America Lost Her Unity

      1796 “Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. The unity of government which constitutes you one people is al...
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The Advice of a Disinterested Friend
August 7, 2018 No Responses

The Advice of a Disinterested Friend

      1796 “Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer...
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A Father’s Prayer
August 1, 2018 No Responses

A Father’s Prayer

9     1796 “In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
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Humble Leadership
August 1, 2018 No Responses

Humble Leadership

      1796 “I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality ma...
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Sacrificing Self
July 24, 2018 No Responses

Sacrificing Self

      1796 The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your...
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Service, Not Power
June 14, 2018 No Responses

Service, Not Power

      1796 “Friends and Fellow-Citizens: “The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts m...
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The Dutiful Citizen
June 12, 2018 No Responses

The Dutiful Citizen

      1796 “I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen...
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Peace through Strength – North Korea & Iran vs. America
May 18, 2018 No Responses

Peace through Strength – North Korea & Iran vs. America

      The world benefits from a strong America. Three American prisoners were being held in North Korea. Take a minute and let that sink in. Americans were being held against their will in hard labor prison camps. Now those three ...
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Why Trump Endures
May 16, 2018 No Responses

Why Trump Endures

      There is a mystery that has baffled the wisest among us. But today I reveal the answer. Today I reveal how and why Trump continues to endure though riddled with scandals, flip flops, and bad tweeting. Why the Left Doesn&#821...
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