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27 August 1774: “…the Government of this Colledge [College of New Jersey @Princeton] is very Strict, and the Schollars study very hard. The President [The Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon] says they are all Sons of Liberty.” From the diary of John Adams who was visiting the college.

26 August 1834: “The Christian religion is part of our common law, with the very texture of which it is interwoven. Its authority is frequently admitted in our statute-books. ” Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853), Inaugural Discourse as @Harvard_Law School’s Royall Professor of Law.

RT @d3bach: 25 August 1829: “There never has been a period in which the common law did not recognize #Christianity as lying at its foundati….

RT @d3bach: 24 August 1572: a St. Bartholomew's feast day massacre of Huguenots commenced in the streets of Paris and soon spread beyond th….

RT @markdtooley: Liberty owes a lot to the Huguenots.

RT @d3bach: The #StBartholomewsDay massacre inspired a body of resistance literature, including the “Vindiciae, contra tyrannos,” affirming….

RT @d3bach: “Man, in his present state, appears to be a degraded creature; his best gold is mixed with dross, and his best motives are very….

RT @d3bach: 22 August 1787: “Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can….

RT @d3bach: “I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number; & indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This. ….

RT @d3bach: “…I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long and have given no decided proofs of my being a Christian. But,….

RT @d3bach: 20 August 1776: #BenjaminFranklin, #ThomasJefferson, and #JohnAdams presented to the #ContinentalCongress their design for the….

RT @d3bach: “The committee appointed to prepare a device for a great seal for the United States” also recommended the motto, "Rebellion to….

RT @d3bach: 18 Aug. 1790: #POTUS #GeorgeWashington’s missive to the Hebrew Congregation, Newport, RI, highlighted the great American innova….

RT @d3bach: “All [citizens] possess alike liberty of conscience. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the ind….

RT @d3bach: “For happily the Gov’t of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only tha….

RT @d3bach: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhab….

RT @d3bach: “May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful her….

“May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.” President George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790.

“May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” #POTUS #GeorgeWashington, 1790.