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Friday, January 22, 2010

Founders' Daily Quote(s): 1/18-22/10

Monday, January 18, 2010.
"A penny saved is twopence clear." --Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737

Tue. 1/19.
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." --Benjamin Franklin, writings, 1758

Wed. 1/20.
"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Shelton Gilliam, 1808

Thu. 1/21.
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

Fri. 1/22.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." --Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

Essay by Mark Alexander: State of Disunion.

Source: Patriot Post.us.

May you walk with the LORD always, and when you cannot take another step, may He carry you the rest of the way until you can walk along side Him again.

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