Dear FReepers, We need your help to keep FR going strong. [FReepathon Thread IX]

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PS. Yesterday was my best friends wedding anniversary and one of these days is a DiL’s B’Day. I missed them both. :-(

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“If the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow…..These considerations should lead to an attentive solitude…to be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers…. and judge of the tree by its fruits.” Elias Boudinot - Patriot

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[onyx]

Oh gosh. I have a grandson’s birthday on April 17, and then I think I’m clear until June 2, but I’m so tired I think I’m forgetting someone in between.

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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

[DJ MacWoW]

I think everyone is stressed by the news too. That makes us tired and forgetful.

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James Madison

Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794-01-10)
The Annals summarize speeches in the third person, with the actual text of Madison’s quote as follows: “Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” The expense in question was for French refugees from the Haitian Revolution.

[TheOldLady]

They weren’t blockbusters, no. Not anything we would walk out of though.

Yes, I’m pretty tired tonight, but what else is new?

God bless your son, and Happy Birthday to him as well.

[onyx]

How about a nice donation tonight?

[onyx]

Thanks very much. I’ll tell him He’s gone out to dinner with his adult son. I told both to watch their number of beers.

[onyx]

Oh yeah, truly stressed and P.O.’d.

[TheOldLady]

Good Evening, Alamo-Girl!!

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[TheOldLady]

I’m going to hit the sack. Really tired. Tomorry!!

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson

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[onyx]

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[onyx]

Hit a sack for me, too. See you tomorry. God bless and keep you.

[onyx]

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[TheOldLady]

Hittin’ it for you, First Darling.

Night, DJ.

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