Quiz time
Posted July 6th, 2008 by farmer
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Who said the following, and in which newly created department of the U.S. government did he serve?
When I was first honored with a call into service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution, I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
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George Washington
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Lisa C.
“Elections are short term efforts; revolutions are long term projects.”
--Ron Paul
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Very good!
First inaugural address, Thursday, April 30, 1789.
I omitted the word "executive" before "department," but I'll have to work harder to challenge you. I hope more that Washington's sentiments, thus expressed, become a challenge and inspiration to our future representatives.
And did you know, Lisa, that
And did you know, Lisa, that the word "pecuniary" comes from the Latin "pecunaea", meaning "cattle", as cows were widely used in the ancient world as currency? Damn, imagine the wallets!
Except for the smell, I'd rather have twenty cows than
twenty FRNs.
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Lisa C.
“Elections are short term efforts; revolutions are long term projects.”
--Ron Paul
Join the rEVOLution here: http://www.campaignforlib...