[untenured]

It doesn't seem to have come up so far on the thread, but I'm currently reading Don Quixote, and it is a wonderful book.

[Yosemitest]

I haven;t read it.
But Glenn's comment stirs my curiosity.

...
GLENN: ... The reason I brought the book out was
how was it George Washington — on the day they signed the Constitution,
what he said was, in his diary,
“Signed the Constitution today.
I pick up my copy of Don Quixote.”


So how — that book has always bothered me.
I look at it, and I’m like,
“Okay. What was he trying to say?
What was Don Quixote speaking to him about?
Why was this book so important?”


It really isn’t that.
Because to me that’s like somebody saying,
“I save the world today,
and I’m going to Barnes & Noble.”
What is that?
And so what it was, was
he finished the Constitution with purity,
with exactness.
He did exactly what he was supposed to do.
And as he said at the end of the Constitutional Convention,
the event is in the hand of God.

So he did exactly what he was supposed to do.
He knew that that a future generation would see the Constitution.
They would be faced with — he didn’t know what it would be,
but totalitarian, socialism, you know, or the status quo.
And people wouldn’t know which way to run.
And they — because they did the right thing, in his words,
they raised the standard to which
the wise and the honest would run to.
And so that allowed him to, when he finished say,
“Yeah. And I get to go read a good book.
I’ve heard these great things from this ambassador about this story.
I’ve got that book coming in.
I can sit under my tree on my farm and read.”


The point I’m trying to make with the book is:
When you do the right thing,
you can sleep at night.


And George Washington saw this time,
and he gave us the — he gave us where we should be going.
We shouldn’t be going to socialism.
We shouldn’t be going to a strongman.
We shouldn’t be looking for the status quo.
We should run to the Constitution.
Because it was done with exactness
and they could sleep at night,
and we’ll be able to sleep at night
because our answers are all contained there.
Our problems are because we didn’t adhere to the Constitution.
America, run to the Constitution.
The event is in the hand of God.