...disaster.— Douglas MacArthur Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. —Benjamin Franklin The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.— George Washington 178 My advice to Sunday schools, no matter what their denomination, is: Hold fast...

...members since the new liberal cabinet members would be doing nothing good for the country. early morning The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected...order and right, which heaven itself has ordained. —George Washington First Inaugural Address (1789) PROLOGUE II On the 20 th of January when John F....

...of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token providential agency. . . . The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government...

...President in his first inaugural in 1789 — words almost directed, it would seem, to this year of 1941: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and...republican model of government are justly considered... finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." If we lose that sacred...

...democracy, civility, freedom, and morality. Washington contended in his first inaugural address that "the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and...the destiny of the republican model of government" depended on America's success. Jefferson labeled the American experiment "the last best hope of mankind,"...

...of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. . . . [T]he propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." Washington's rhetoric closely...

...them? And why such a severe judgment on those particular people? President George Washington once said: "We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of righteous order, which heaven itself...

...advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to...of order and right which heaven itself has ordained [a reference to the laws of nature and Nature's God]; and since the preservation of the sacred fire...

...I have just mentioned are committed by adults, but by teenagers, too! George Washington said, "The smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation...order and right, which heaven itself has ordained." How can we expect to be blessed when we don't live accordingly to the moral laws of God? It is very...

...Washington's warning to the nation in his First Inaugural Address (1789) rings as true today as it did then: "the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."...