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@syncpol.bsky.social · 3w ago

[M]en by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties. 1. those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2dly those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them cherish and consider them. Jefferson

@syncpol.bsky.social · last mo.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social..."Best 4th of July Speech Contest (Besides Frederick Douglass). My entry, JQ Adams "swept away all the rubbish of accumulated centuries of servitude--proved that the social compact was no figment of the imagination; but a real, solid, and sacred bond of the social union."

@syncpol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RFK assassinated June 5, 1968. "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it" Ted Kennedy

@syncpol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

April 15, 1865. Lincoln succumbs. The following day is Easter Sunday+New Testament allusions could not be overlooked. Nor the confluence with the Passover seder: Destined to lead the slaves out of bondage and to see the Promised Land, but not permitted to enter. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

If The Thing Be Pressed: Two Weeks In April, 1865 - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissApril 1, 1865. For the South, the end is nearing. It was already obvious on March 4, when Abraham Lincoln delivered his magnificent Second

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@syncpol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

February 27th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln travels to Cooper Union to introduce himself. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/02/radical-centrism-lincoln-at-cooper-union.html

@syncpol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

FDR's first crisis, resolved. "The effect was remarkable. The following day, Monday, March 13th, hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers returned to their banks—to put their cash and gold in, not take it out. Roosevelt had turned them around, given them confidence." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Together We Cannot Fail: FDR's Ten Days - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissMarch 3, 1933. Herbert Hoover spent his final hours in the White House in anger and despair. Angry that he’d been decisively rejected by an

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