...echoes today. On April 30, 1789, in his first Inaugural Address as the first US president, he said, "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...the destiny of the republican model of government, are...entrusted to the hands of the American people." For us as 21st-century Americans, the objectives...

...advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people....

...private morality," and such "pre-eminence" would win for free government "the respect of the world." hich were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author...Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose exampl America, the government must abide by "the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has...

...bhanson@graceandlaw.com * www.graceandlaw.com ISUN:0-9719812-l-3 Printed and bound in the United States of America The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1789 INAUGURAL ADDRESS Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering...

...first president, George Washington, warned us about this in his first inaugural address, when he said: "the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Then, in his farewell address, he said, "reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national...

...advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to...persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never cz^ . & '-. • ! • . . : -J3,* , tr- Af • • ,- t£X i t • •£ • t ' ' • • • be expected...

...an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. . . . The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American...

...every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own.. ..We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious...order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." 2ND US PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS "With humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration...

...public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own.... We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious...eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."i4 GEORGE WASHINGTON, MAY I0, I789, TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED BAPTIST CHURCHES...

...the world could be explained only by the intervention of Almighty God. George Washington also warned, "We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious...nation that disregards the eternal rules of order which heaven itself has ordained." John Adams, our second President, stated, "Our Constitution was...