http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/foundingfathers/ en-us Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:28:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2142339/posts The founding fathers (signers of the Declaration of Independence) were reliogious, God fearing men. of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were current or former full-time preachers, and many more were the sons of clergymen. They established this country on moral principles. In fact, the Declaration of Independence recognizes God as the source of the rights enumerated by the document. Below is a list of the founding fathers, and thier religions: (See Website) [Photo]The signers of our constitution were also very religious men: (See Website) What happened? Why has our country gotten off the path set by the founding... Notoriouslyconservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2142339/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139441/posts In September 1789, Congress asked President George Washington to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a Constitution of government for their safety and happiness.” Washington complied, and in early October sent a proclamation to the governors of the states. The proclamation asked the governors to make Thursday, November 26 a day of Thanksgiving, saying it “is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139441/posts#comment Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:51:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138084/posts Thanks to one of those “quirks” in the U.S. Constitution, Sen. Hillary Clinton technically is not eligible to be the Secretary of State -- because of a pay raise. This technicality is not unique to Clinton. According to Article The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138084/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:09:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133653/posts If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their Own hands; they may a point teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision for the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation... On the Cod Fishery Bill, granting Bounties. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133653/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:44:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133041/posts I could love the girl which I met when she was 20. Now I am meeting her and she is 60. Must I love her still? It depends on her behavior – it is seen on her face. Sometimes I ask myself: how could I even think of loving such a trollop? I love United States. My United States were founded by the Founding Fathers, which provided them with Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It was federal republic – or rather: the federation of republics - with Rule of Law and Free Market as basic Principles. After 240 years... JKM blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133041/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:33:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121542/posts On John Gibson's Fox news radio show, Tom "still The Hammer" DeLay says Barack Obama wants to rewrite the Constitution because he is a well established Marxist, not just a Socialist. Gibson states that Obama said the Founding Fathers were "the original sin". Good interview - FlA Listen to Audio (7:21 minutes) | John Gibson Radio # # # # # 10.29.08 Video/Transcript: DeLay Blasts Obama on MSNBC Hardball 10.21.08: Marxists for Obama, by Tom DeLay06.07.08 Video: Tom DeLay Interview: "Unless Obama Proves Me Wrong, He is a Marxist."American Thinker: Another Obama Marxist by Lance Fairchok - - Barack Obama... America's News Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121542/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:59:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120794/posts Faith of Our Fathers by: Irene Warren, October 31, 2008 To acknowledge Dr. John Howard’s newest book release entitled, Christianity: Lifeblood of America’s Free Society, The Heritage Foundation hosted an event recently to discuss the book’s premise, which shows Christian values as the woven fabric of American culture and societies during its humbled, yet fruitful beginnings, while questioning America’s moral decline over the years. “For more than 70 years, our schools and colleges have not informed their students that Christianity was the dominant influence in the development of our nation and the dominant influence in the development of our society,”... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120794/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119949/posts “It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.” —Alexander Hamilton Patriot Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119949/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:20:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2117588/posts Barack Obama let it be known that he thinks the Constitution is “fundamentally flawed.” Its defect you ask? According to Obama, the Constitution does not sufficiently allow for redistributive policies. Obama also says it’s a “tragedy” that our government hasn’t been more assertive in that regard. Indeed, Obama stated that the Constitution is flawed because it does not include provisions as to what government should be doing for Americans. In no uncertain terms, I can assure you that the Founders rejected Obama’s flawed thinking. First, as I write in my upcoming book, Selling Freedom in American, the Founding Fathers wrote... politicalvanguard.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2117588/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:45:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097657/posts The bubble pops. Lenders freeze. Depositors lose faith. Panic spreads. And the government steps in because nobody else will. Today it is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke putting together the rescue package for a financial system rocked by falling home prices and a wave of defaults on subprime mortgages. But a short walk through U.S. history demonstrates the point made by Alex J. Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute: "If you would like an empirical law of government behavior, it is that in a panic or threatened financial collapse, governments intervene -- every government, every... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097657/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:33:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089971/posts Okay, I don't know what the solution to this crisis is, but we all know that this bailout is NOT it. I've heard several people on these boards talk about this not being the time to stand up for our conservative beliefs, and I think that is b.s. This is the time when our conservatism is needed the most. We are about to fundamentally shape the nature of this country in a way that would make our founding fathers sick. This nation was founded on conservatism, though it was called "classic liberalism" at the time. Rolling over and accepting this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089971/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087671/posts Some troubling e-mails following my article "First Amendment 101 – Whoopie’s Lesson," in which I attempted to clarify for Whooopie Goldberg – co-host of ABC’s “The View” – some of the finer truths regarding the establishment clause, has prompted me to expand the tutorial for her (and for those who suggested I ought to do more research before commenting on such “nuanced” and “complicated” matters as the first amendment). From the top. The oft-alluded to “separation of church and state” clause exists nowhere in the federal Constitution. (This should be a booming “well, duh” factoid by now). Thomas Jefferson’s use... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087671/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:18:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076319/posts "If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, I would never have placed my signature to it." -- George Washington -- There is an ever-growing debate in America over the relationship between government and religion. In recent times, Constitutional law, or at least the modern-day interpretation thereof, has moved from one of accommodation concerning religion to a position many call hostile to the expression of personal faith in the public square. From their writings, it's clear... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076319/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 22:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070153/posts For almost a thousand years the chief creative force in western civilization was Christianity until around the year 1725, when Christianity declined and practically disappeared among intellectuals. Of course this left a vacuum. People cannot get along without a belief in something outside themselves, and during the next hundred years they concocted a new belief in the divinity of nature. By 1730 the collapse of Christianity was nearly complete in England and the nutballs were off and running, writing about modern man corrupting gentle peoples and destroying nature’s beauty. The Caucasian male, according to philosophers and idle soothsayers of the... Focal Point USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070153/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2067181/posts It's often said that America was founded on "Judeo-Christian" values. American Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2067181/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065943/posts The three most important words in American History were said on July 4, 1776 at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Twelve colonies (New York abstained) chose war with England rather than continue to live under the tyrannical boot of King George III. Outmanned and outgunned, our founders wanted a free independent nation and signed the Declaration of Independence. This decision did not come easily as preceding votes were to continue to negotiate with King George for more rights, freedoms, concessions and less taxes. In the end, all delegates agreed it was better to shed blood for freedom than be pushed-around... Focal Point USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065943/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:22:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065200/posts structure (not words) changed for clear reading) “No American natural history was more influential during the 18th century than Thomas Jefferson's (1743-1826) Notes on the State of Virginia, though it is, as intended, far more than a simple natural history. At once a description of the land and people of the state and a theoretical discourse on historical, natural, and political systems, the Notes represents Jefferson's conflicted views on the present and future of the new American nation, an integral mix of hope and anxiety. “Jefferson's Notes began inauspiciously during the late autumn, 1780, when François de Barbé Marbois, the... University of Virginia, American Philosophy Society http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065200/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:10:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060662/posts This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. Benjamin Franklin (Autobiography, 1771) "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson "To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying... The Patriot Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060662/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:49:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052821/posts "Statesmen my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand....The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty." John Adams 1776 - letter to Zabdiel Adams "Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." Samuel Adams 1778 - letter... The Patriot Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052821/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047255/posts You see, the problem with holding a particular ideology is that, unless you’re a total recluse, someone in your inner circle will eventually reveal your intentions (albeit, unintentionally). There has been a lot of scrambling behind the scenes then in public to try and cover up the mess Michelle Obama made when she declared, “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." She made this statement in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Later the same day in Madison Wisconsin, she said, “For the first time in my... fracturedrepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047255/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046880/posts There is a belief abroad in many conservative circles that the U.S. is "a Christian nation". This belief is found in perhaps its most extreme form in the Mormon doctrine that the Constitution of the United States is a divinely inspired document. Less extreme versions hold that Christian piety was an shaping influence on the thinking and writing of the Founding Fathers, and Christianity therefore has (or ought to have) a privileged position in the political and cultural life of the U.S. The Mormon doctrine is unfalsifiable. But claims about the beliefs and intentions of the Founding Fathers are not,... Armed and Dangerous http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046880/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:49:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2044908/posts Presidents “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 favor.” GEORGE WASHINGTON Commander-in-Chief in the American Revolution; Signer of the Constitution; First President of the United States “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” JOHN ADAMS Signer of the Declaration of Independence; One of Two... Hobby Lobby http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2044908/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043260/posts I’d like to take a moment to say that I disagree with you… Not on everything, mind you but on something nonetheless. I figure you probably see things differently than me also. It’s how we’re made. Although we aren’t the sum of all that we are taught and our upbringing, it does play into our beliefs. We are higher than the animals in that we were made in God’s image giving us the distinct ability to make judgments based on reasoning. Sometimes this works for us, but more often than not in our fallen state, it fights against us. But... fracturedrepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043260/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:10:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042919/posts One signed all three bulwarks of the Republic. The other was second only to James Madison as the architect of the Constitution. Robert Morris and James Wilson were two of the most important, yet least publicized, of the Founding Fathers. Why has Philadelphia not commemorated some of its most important citizens? Wilson was according to American Heritage magazine, one of the most underrated Americans in history. Historian Gary Wills wrote, "A signer of the Declaration, a principal drafter of the Federal Constitution, the principal ratifier, and the profoundest theorist of it, Wilson is the least known of the Founding Fathers."... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042919/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041802/posts Benjamin Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation. 2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself:i.e. Waste nothing. 6. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and... Many, I'll pick one... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041802/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:39:57 GMT