Keep in the sunlight

Day 213

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

~Benjamin Franklin~ 

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®achel™

Just for Fun!!!

 

Just for fun!!! 

I like this one a whole lot and hope y'all like it too!

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®achel™

If you would be loved,

Day 212

 

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

~Benjamin Franklin~ 

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®achel™

A great deal of love...

Day 211

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”

~Thomas Jefferson~   

 This one is kinda brake from all the deep political ones I've been doing lately. This one's just nice.  

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®achel™

Great Virtues

Day 210

"Great necessities call out great virtues."
~Abigail Adams~

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®achel™

Guest Post by Erin(Rachel's Twin Sister)

Erin of Praise Him With Strings here blogging live from my living room!
Today Rachel has asked me to share a quote with you all!
I have chosen a quote that was:
a. Musical
b. Funny
c. Very True

So without further ado:
"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it!"
Jascha Heifetz

the liberties of a people...

Day 208

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." 

~Patrick Henry~ 

I just found a lot of Patrick Henry quotes! can you tell? 

Well Bye, 

 ®achel™

Happy Birthday Mr. Knox!

Day 207

Happy Birthday to Henry Knox!

“A brave and intelligent officer, and an open hearted, honest hearted man.”
Form Benjamin Rush’s Sketches about Henry Knox

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®achel™

alexander/hamilton/quote

Day 206

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, of because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." 

~Alexander Hamilton~

How do you like my title? I couldn't come up with anything better!(*Smile*) It's called creative.

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®achel™

 

Laughing in front of the Camera

Sorry if they're a little blurry but here are a few more pictures from filming my movie!

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®achel™

The Primary Object

Day 205

"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
 ~Patrick Henry~

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®achel™

Free Government, Blessings of Liberty

Day 204

"No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles"

~Patrick Henry~

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®achel™

Enjoying Outside!!!

These where taken awhile ago but I thought y'all might still want to see them so enjoy!

 

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®achel™

FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, PEACE

Day 203

[America's] glory is not dominion, but Liberty. Her march is in the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, PEACE. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice." 

~John Adams~

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®achel™

The Bible,

Day 202

"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed." 

~Patrick Henry~

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®achel™

Danger of Oppression

Day 201

"Wherever The real Power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression." 

~James Madison~

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®achel™

Day 200!!!

Day 200!!!

"The comparison of our governments with those of Europe are like a comparison of heaven and hell."  ~Thomas Jefferson~

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®achel™

The Ony Foundations...

Day 199

"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society."
~John Adams~

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®achel™

Photos from My Movie!!!

 Here are a few stills from filming hope you like them!

That's all I'm going to do!

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®achel™ 

The Highest Glory

Day 198

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." 

~John Quincy Adams~

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®achel™  

Few Actions

Day 197

   “Few Actions at Sea have demonstrated such steady, cool determined Bravery as that of Jones in taking the Serapis.”
~Benjamin Franklin~

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®achel™

Defend America

Day 196 

As George Washington watched his men flee in one battle of the American Revolution he said,  

“Are these the men with which I am to defend America?”

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®achel™

Every Generation

Day 195

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
~Thomas Jefferson~

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®achel™

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook?

Day 194

"Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith."
~Fisher Ames~

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®achel™

Let His Kingdom Come

Day 193

"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."
~Samuel Adams~

After singing the D. of I.

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®achel™

Purchased at too Dear a Rate

Day 192

"The object is great which We have in View, and We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain it. But We should always remember that a free Constitution of civil Government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate as there is nothing, on this side (of) the New Jerusalem, of equal importance to Mankind."
~John Adams~

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®achel™

Light and Gory

Day 191

"You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even though we [may regret] it, which I trust in God we shall not."
~John Adams~

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®achel™

Ring out Our Independence!

Day 190

The Liberty Bell 
       Written by: Anonymous

There was tumult in the city,
In the quaint old Quaker town,
And the streets were rife with people,
Pacing restless up and down,
People gathering at corners,
Where they whispered, each to each,
And the sweat stood on their temples,
With the earnestness of speech.

As the bleak Atlantic currents
Lash the wild Newfoundland shore,
So they beat against the State House,
So they surged against the door;

And the mingling of their voices
Made a harmony profound,
Till the quiet street of Chestnut
Was all turbulent with sound.

“Will they do it?”-”Dare they do it?”
 “Who is speaking?”-”What’s the news?”
“What of Adams?”-”What of Sherman?”
“Oh, God grant they won’t refuse!”

Aloft in that high steeple
Sat the bellman, old and gray;
He was weary of the tyrant
And his iron-sceptered sway;
So he sat with one hand ready
On the clapper of the bell,
When his eye should catch the signal,
Very happy news to tell.

See! see! the dense crowd quivers
Through all its lengthy line,
As the boy beside the portal
Looks forth to give the sign.
With his small hands upward lifted, Breezes dallying with his hair,
Hark! with deep, clear intonation,
Breaks his young voice on the air.

Hushed the people’s swelling murmur, List the boy’s strong, joyous cry-
“Ring!” he shouts aloud, “Ring, Grandpa!
Ring! Oh, ring for Liberty!”
And, straightway, at the signal,
The old bellman lifts his hand,
And sends the good news, making
Iron music through the land.

How they shouted! What rejoicing!
How the old well shook the air,
Till the clang of Freedom ruffled
The clam, gliding Delaware!
How the bonfires and the torches
Illumed the night’s repose!
And from the flames, like Phoenix,
Fair Liberty arose!

That old bell now is silent,
And hushed its iron tongue,
But the spirit is awakened
Still lives-forever young.
And, while we greet the sunlight,
On the fourth of each July,
We’ll ne’er forget the bellman
Who, ‘twixt the earth and sky,
Rung out Our Independence;
Which, please God, shall never die!

This is one of my favorite poems, if not my favorite. I like the way it rhymes so much better than most poems and how good it makes everything sound. 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Draftsmen

Day 189

“I have made it a rule to avoid becoming the draftsmen of papers to be reviewed by a public body.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
To Thomas Jefferson while congress was editing the first draft of the D. of I.

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®achel™ 

Filming, Fun, Friends!!!

Jessica finished up filming her movie this past week and here are a few pictures of one of the last days of filming with some really fun friends!

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®achel™

And here are a few more pictures.

King Alex

Ryan is basically the star in my movie so he has been very busy helping the past few weeks and has been a awesome sport about it! I personally would not want to get in and out of my costume as many times as he got in and out of his. 

This is his "office" for the movie and we did remember to take off the watch before we began filming!

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®achel™

John Paul Jones

Day 188

To day is John Paul Jones Birthday.

~About John Paul Jones~

Form Benjamin Rush’s Sketches
“He united in his military character the boldness which is produced by madness, the bravery which is the effect of animal spirits, and the courage which is the result of reflection. He once put into my hands a history of his naval exploits. He exulted in it in having first hoisted the American flag on board the first armed vessel that was commissioned by the United States. I heard him give a minute account of his engagement with the Serapis in a small circle of gentlemen at a dinner. It was delivered with great apparent modesty and commended the most respectful attention. Towards the close of the battle, while his deck was swimming in blood, the captain of the Serapis called him to strike. “No, Sir,” said he, “I will not, we have had but a small fight as yet.” He had been well educated in Scotland (his native country) and discovered style and taste both in writing and conversation. His countenance was strongly marked with thought. I know nothing of his private character.”

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®achel™

A Free Country!

Day 187

“If it be pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a Country, and at that a free Country!” 
~John Adams~
(When contemplating the effect that separation from England would mean  to him personally.)

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®achel™

Happy Independence Day!!!

This is a little lat because I didn't get the chance to do anything yesterday on the real Independence Day. But I hope you all had a wonderful day (I know I did) and I hope you all read the Declaration of Independence! 

The last words of the D. of I.,

We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Well Bye, 

®achel™

READ IT!!!

Day 186

I know it's long but it's the whole point we celebrate this day and I will do you all a world of good to at least know what it's says. (And you don't have to understand every word.) 

The Declaration of Independence
In Congress July 4, 1776

The Unanimous Declaration of The Thirteen
United States of America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository or their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every state of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, Therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally disolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Signers:

John Adams, Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark, George Clymer, William Ellery, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, John Hancock, Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Richard Henry Lee, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward, Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Fras. Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Frans. Lewis, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Phil. Livington, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Thomas M'Kean, Arthur Middleton, Lewis Morris, Robert Morris, John Morton, Thomas Nelson, Jr., William Paca, John Penn, George Read, Caesar Rodney, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, Edward Rutledge, Roger Sherman, Jason Smith, Richard Stockton, Thomas Stone, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, Robert Treat Paine, George Walton, William Whipple, William Williams, James Wilson, Johnothan Witherspoon, Oliver Wolcott, George Wythe

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®achel™

From This Time Forward Forever More

Day 185

~John Adams in a letter Abigail. July 3, 1776~

 “But the Day is past. The second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocla, in the History of America,-I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, Games, Sports, Guns Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
You will thank me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not,-I am well aware of the Toil and blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states.- yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing Light and Glory . I can see the end is more than worth all the means, And that posterity will tryumph in that Day. Transaction, even altho we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not.”

Well Bye,

®achel™

Princess Amy

Jamie is the princess in my movie I'm making (that's kinda obvious from the title).
She has been such a good sport about being out almost everyday in the heat and in that long dress.
Amy(Jamie) and her brother(Ryan) become king and queen of their land unexpectedly when their mother and father die (I don't know what they died of).
So this is Jamie at the graveside. Jamie is so cute because she has a really hard time NOT smiling. (It's a common problem in our family!)☺
Anyway I'm almost finished with the filming and then comes the part I don't like quiet so much: The editing. And finding the music. But it will be fun and I cant wait until it's interned in the film festival.

Well Bye,  
®achel™ 

Independence now, and Independence for ever!

Day 184

 “Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live of die, survive of perish, I as for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!”
~John Adams~
To the Delegates from the thirteen Colonies on July 1 1776

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Half way through!!!

Day 183


Alright I've made it this far I have to just keep going. I'm running out of really good quotes and one day I'm afraid I'm not going to remember to do my post for the day but I'll just keep at it!

"Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God."
~Gouverneur Morris~

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®achel™