I'm impressed

Benjamin Rush Could speak Latin, Greek, German, French and a little of Spanish and Italian.
I know I'm impressed. I'm not much good at different languages.

I was thinking the other day about all the things Benjamin Rush could say and no one would know what he was saying. Benjamin Rush was also a Dr. so that could have come in handy....

"Usted tiene una enfermedad incurable."

"You have an incurable disease. "

"Ich habe keine Ahnung, was mit Ihnen falsch ist."

"I have no idea what is wrong with you."

"C'est quelque chose que je n'ai avant jamais vue."

"This is something I've never seen before."

"Il mio consiglio è di vivere come stavate morendo."

"My advice is to live like you were dying."

"¡Espero esto no sea lo que pienso que es!"

"I hope this is not what I think it is!" 



I had a little free time and see what came out of it!
Maybe next time I'll just read another book. Books are awesome! I just had to put that in there. I'm addicted to books but I'm a really slow reader so I'm still at the point were I can talk about a every book I liked/loved for weeks afterward. (Or mouths. Or years.)
If I read any more than I did I wouldn't be able to tell everyone about ever good book I read.

Anyway this is not what I started out talking about so I guess I should just stop.
Still I think I might learn some phrases in strange languages just so I can say things and then say 'Oh don't you know what that means? Well of course you don't it's in German.'
O.K. I need to go because this is silly.

Well Bye,
®achel™

Just the first Act ot the Drama

Day 365

“The American war is over; but this [is] far from being the case with the American revolution, on the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”  

~Benjamin Rush~

This quotations seemed fitting to close this very long process with. I have done 365 day; this was a leap year but I did not do a post on Christmas. I hope you understood most of the quotations and liked some of them. Patrick Henry is probably my favorite concerning politics; Thomas Jefferson for something new and fun; John and Abigail Adams for sweet and sappy; And Benjamin Franklin for just saying the most stuff all around. 

I still love quotations. This did not kill my love for them and you will see a lot more in the near future, although not everyday.  

Happy new year! 

Well Bye, 

®achel™  

Wise and Good

Day 363

"As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good."

~John Adams~ 

1776 'Thoughts on Government' 

Opinions

Day 323

 ~Thomas Jefferson's opinion of George Washington~

"Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed."

 

 

 

Amen

Day 292

"Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and Guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." 

~George Washington~

Citizens

Day 275

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
~Samuel Adams~

I do apprehend some danger

Day 271

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe… Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.”

~Daniel Webster~

 

 

 

 

Sacred Fire

Day 262

"The preservation of the sacred fire of Liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American People." 

~George Washington~

Well Bye,
®achel™


I found this quotation in the book "Sacred Fire" by Jerry Newcombe and Peter A. Limmback. Just so you know; I thought I should give it the credit.

The Grand Operation

Day 258

“The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life. I ever prized the superior privilege of being one in that chosen age, to which providence entrusted its favorite work.”
~Patrick Henry~ 

Well Bye,
®achel™

I am persuaded...

Day 255

“I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure.”
~John Adams~

Well Bye,
®achel™

Sentiments of Gratitude

Day 254

"I fell the most lively sentiments of gratitude to that divine Providence which has graciously interposed for the protection of our civil and Religious Liberties." 

~George Washington~ 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

We Learn by Chess...

Day 250

“We learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the  search of resources.”
~Benjamin Franklin~ 

Well Bye,
  ®achel™

It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.

Day 249

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, of 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~

Well Bye,
  ®achel™

This Happy Country

Day 248

“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment is matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”
~Samuel Adams~

Well Bye,
  ®achel™

Provide for it!

Day 239

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
~Patrick Henry~

Well Bye,
®achel™

Into habits of...

Day 237

“Grief drives a man into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.”
~John Adams~ 

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®achel™

It is wonderful!

Day 235

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

~Thomas Jefferson~

Well Bye,
®achel™

Every Generation

Day 234

“But every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution, and bearing true faith and allegiance to it.
~Daniel Webster~

Well Bye,  
®achel™

A Leader

Day 233

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
~John Adams~

Well Bye,
®achel™

Not easily conquered

Day 232

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. "

~Thomas Paine~

Well Bye,
®achel™