If one group that has gotten what our Founding Fathers wanted wrong would be the Tea Party, and also on misinterpreting our Founding Fathers political views you Republican leaders come in as a close 2nd. I was recently doing some research on George Washington and I ended up reading several pages of quotes and parts of letters written to various people and groups made by George Washington. After reading Washington’s words, I couldn’t help but aknowledge George Washington being one of the ones establishing Public Education with other Founding Fathers. Public education as just so happens is one of those things Republicans just want to do away with. For Republicans leaders and for the the Tea Party and all their talk on being true followers of the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, as it turns out their view to these historical figures are quite the opposite. In his letters and quotes Washington believed that the Constitution itself was not set in stone. He recognized and accepted those who moved to the United Stated because of harsh issues dealt with in a foreign country and he acknowledge that all men had a fundemental right to worship any religion they choose. I have included several quotes of Washington that relate to current issues we are faced with today. Probably to the dismay of Republicans George Washington does use the world liberal to describe certain in a posive manner in his quotes.
Here is one quote in particular Washington uses the quote ‘Liberal’, reckon what he meant?
The citizens of the United States of America have the right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were by the indulgence of one class of citizens that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
George Washington, letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, September 9, 1790
At the Huffington Post, ACS Executive Director Caroline Fredrickson knocked the Tea Party “Patriots” for “pushing a constitutional curriculum designed by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, which disseminates reading materials suggesting that God intended for America to be a Christian nation, that the Jamestown settlers starved to death because they were communists who failed to embrace capitalism, and that the national parks were unconstitutional.” George Washington was against religion in schools. George also believed government should run schools, and he was very much a part of creating our first public education system in this country.
George Washingtin encouraged Thomas Jefferson to get Congress to authorize the funding and building of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Previously during the American Revolution a national institurion for military education was founded.
Republicans are opposed to the federal government funding education. Clearly Republican leaders and the Tea Party are opposite of our First President and Founding Father, George Washington. The other founding fathers also shared the same beliefs as Washington, whose ideals go against everything the Republicans, GOP and Tea Party. To be exact Republicans are against the Federal government involvement in Education, but George Washington and other Founding Fathers help to create our Public Education system.
Some of George Washington’s quotes I think we can Relate to today’s America and the World Around it.
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
George Washington, letter to the General Committee of the United Baptist Churches in Virginia, May, 1789
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
George Washington, letter to George Chapman, December 15, 1784
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
George Washington, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, July 25, 1785
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.
George Washington, General Orders, April 18, 1783
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington, letter to Francis Van der Kamp, May 28, 1788
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.
George Washington, circular letter of farewell to the Army, June 8,
In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States … should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.
George Washington, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
George Washington, letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, August 17, 1790
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
George Washington, letter to George Chapman, December 15, 1784
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
George Washington, Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association of Ireland, December 2, 1783
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