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George Washington was a great man.
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He was amazing.
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The more I read, the more I study about who he was, what he did, how he led, the things uh he picked up that he didn't want to pick up, and the things he laid down that he didn't have to lay down, it's amazing.
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So, why would two guys leave comfortable jobs, move across the country, and start a business in an industry they don't know, a place they don't know?
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And could it be successful?
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We're Dale and Brian Carnegie.
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Joining us as we share our story and inspire you to become people of impact.
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Welcome to the Impact Without Limits Podcast.
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Welcome back to the Impact Without Limits Podcast.
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I am Brian Carnemy here with my brother Dale.
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Right here at AM.
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And we are ready for a fun-filled, exciting day of podcasts.
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We're gonna dive into George Washington's uh first presidency and really the inaugural press.
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Yes, we started as we're looking at the episodes of trying to figure out what we did, you know, what we're gonna talk about as we wind down the season.
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We had the thought of covering George Washington's presidency because it's the first, right?
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And he's good.
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I was gonna say we did two episodes on George Washington.
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We did on George Washington.
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It was very it was you you were wanting to dive into first potentially the most impactful human being to ever live outside of biblical characters, and we think in two half hour podcasts we pretty well covered it.
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Trust me.
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I'm reading a book that says it would take about 46 hours to get through George Washington.
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So we kind of we we wanted to hit his presidency, you know, start with the inaugural address, talk about some of the things he did because he did set the bar or set the framework for what a president is and does.
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Um, as I started digging into it, I think we got a whole episode just going through the inaugural address.
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Yeah.
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But before we do, we had a couple updates.
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Oh, we do.
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I don't want to do the first one.
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We kind of we we left a previous podcast on a cliffhanger.
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And again, the way this works, we record in segments, and the last time we recorded three or four episodes, and the kidney stone did not pass during that time.
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We we had a whole day of podcasting, and that puppy was.
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You even had on your stretchy pants.
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I did.
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And today you're better than I'm wearing jeans.
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What does that mean?
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That might tell you something.
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What it tells us is I sent King George packing.
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That's right.
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I named my kidney stone King George because he was unwanted and he was putting unwanted and unwelcomed influence over my life.
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King George is gone.
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He has been expelled and sent back to England.
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Actually, he's not sent back to England.
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He's in a little bottle.
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I was gonna bring it today and shake it on the air.
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You kept it?
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But I didn't.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It's in a bottle.
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I thought it was in the septic or sewer somewhere.
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There might be some fragments, fragments that made it there.
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But the main party.
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So I I uh we made it through the podcasting last time, medicine free.
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This time we're back.
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I'm a new man.
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We're ready to go.
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Wow, that is great news.
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But then we did have one slight correction, and I think if I remember right, this was uh we were talking about George Washington when he took over the Continental Army.
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Yes.
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And you had said 75.
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I think I actually corrected you and said 76.
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But then I agreed with your correction.
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It was 75.
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Yeah, it was he was appointed June 14th or 15th, 75, showed up in Boston and took command of the army in July, I think it was July 3rd, 1775.
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Um, because obviously I shouldn't say obviously, but based on what we talked about, it was the beginning of 76 when England, the England forces leave Boston, and then Washington goes down to New York, and then that leads to the incredible battles in the summer of 76.
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So anyway, we want to be right, we want to be accurate.
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When when we're sitting here talking and doing all these episodes, it's sometimes difficult to keep everything straight.
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So if we catch something we said that's wrong, we're gonna address it.
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That is our commitment to commitment to truth, honesty, and integrity.
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So what we did today, and this is kind of putting Brian on the spotlight here because as uh as we were mapping out, we were kind of frantically going through our notes and things.
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I mapped out the inaugural address, so Brian hasn't seen it yet.
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I just emailed him the notes.
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What what I really tried to do was just break it down, uh, I think it's seven or eight paragraphs.
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I would have to pull it up, but just each paragraph kind of hits a different point.
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So I talk about what the just a quick summary of what this paragraph is addressing, then I pull some quotes out of his speech from that paragraph we can read, and I just want to talk about it.
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I just want to let the studio audience know it's not that I was slacking here.
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I'm not sure.
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No, you were working on another.
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So there's gonna be another episode where I know absolutely nothing about I I'm kind of the color commentator here.
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You're calling the action, you're describing what's going on, and I see what you're doing colour.
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You're Tom Brady in this instance.
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You're the greatest of all time, and I'm just just a pretty face.
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Just the other announcer, we can't remember his name.
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So we'll see how this goes and what it's like.
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This isn't typically how we do our our um podcasts.
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Usually we map together and we're both pretty up to speed on what we're doing and what we're gonna talk about.
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So I'm gonna start.
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Uh look, I'm gonna say it again and again.
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George Washington was a great man.
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He was amazing.
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Uh the more I read, the more I study about who he was, what he did, how he led, the things uh he picked up that he didn't want to pick up, and the things he laid down that he didn't have to lay down.
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It's amazing.
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So um the first paragraph uh of the address is I have down it's Washington kind of saying that somewhat begrudgingly he's accepting this role.
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He wanted to, uh he had just spent uh eight years from 75 to 83 leading the army, fighting the war.
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Then out of that, uh he got involved in the Constitutional Convention, which ran for, I don't know what it was, a year or more developing the Constitution.
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And all he wanted to do was go back to Mount Vernon.
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He wanted to live with his wife, he wanted to ride horses, wanted to relax, wanted to enjoy retirement.
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And here again comes the call of duty.
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Um, and the reason he answered that call was because of his intense and immense love of this country.
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And at this time, this country was more of an ideal than an established country, right?
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Yep.
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I pulled this quote out.
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He says, I was summoned by my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
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And that was the call of people asking him to serve as president.
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And uh there was obviously an election.
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He was unanimously elected, but uh he had to be willing to throw his hat in the ring and say, I accept this call.
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And he did.
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And it wasn't because he wanted it, it wasn't because he wanted power, wasn't because he wanted to be the president and rule the country.
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What he wanted to do was step back and enjoy life, but he loved this nation so much, loved the ideals of what he had fought for, and what was this new experiment that he answered that call.
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And I just I'm gonna jump in real quick.
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I I think the interesting thing there is this idea of service, not of seeking power and position.
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We we look at politicians today that serve for 50 years or more, and and they see these offices as something they can climb to not direct that they can serve.
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And the model that was laid out by the founders was that these people in power who they they they were public servants.
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They worked for the people.
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We're gonna get to something on that a little bit later in here.
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It's it's amazing when we get to it.
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Yeah.
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But I think that's something to keep in mind as we get closer to elections, are we seeing people that are seeking power or are we seeing people that are looking for serve?
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Pretty easy to tell sometimes.
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One easy way is to see if they've ever done anything outside of the city.
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Yeah, have they ever had if all they've ever done is been a politician, kick him out.
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Sherrod Brown, kick him out.
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He's been doing this for 50 years.
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Name call and point fingers.
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This is insane.
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He knows nothing about business, about life, about okay, I'm off track.
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Let's go back to George Washington.
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So he was hoping to retire, or what he called, he was hoping to retreat or you know, live a life at his retreat.
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And he said this was desperately needed both for his personal health and just the enjoyment of life.
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So here is the the words of George Washington as he talks about this.
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He is answering this call, he's coming out, and this is quote, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
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So again, we have some other words.
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I understand like the the words used and the structure is different than what we would say today, and it might take a minute to get this.
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But what he's saying is he's getting called out of the life he was hoping to go to.
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Right.
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And he said his fondest predilection, his flattering hopes.
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Um, and why was he wanting to do this?
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He calls out the asylum of my declining years.
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What and what's that mean?
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I I take that like is as you start getting to the end of the life, you realize the years you have are shorter and shorter.
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And it's almost like this I don't know, trap.
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He says the asylum.
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Like, I only have so much time left, what I want to do with it.
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I'm going through that right now at age 61.
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I'm thinking, okay, I'm getting I'm getting closer here.
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Where do I really want to spend my time?
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We were just talking to somebody about that yesterday, right?
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About you put the hundred pennies on the table and you take off some and you keep taking them off.
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And when you look down and there's only how many pennies are on your table with pennies left.
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And you don't know that you're gonna get all those pennies, but that's like a best case scenario.
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So to to to make sure you understand the pennies are an analogy of years.
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So if you put 100 pennies down, it's one penny for every year.
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Most people don't live to be a hundred, they live to be eighty, so you pull 20 pennies off, you have 80 pennies left.
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Then you have, for me, I'm 61, so I've already lived 61 years, that gets pulled aside.
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I'm left with 19 pennies.
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Yeah.
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Like this is what you have.
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What are you gonna do with it?
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Why are you spending this?
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Yeah.
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So um but but he he talks about this retreat, not only was it desired, not only did want to do this, but it was necessary and more dear to him.
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Because the interruptions in his health and the gradual waste um, I guess, of his body committed on it by time.
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So again, Brian, you hit this.
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He wasn't president because it was something he was aspiring to do, and because he could achieve fame and glory and honor, and he could get a big paycheck and all this.
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He was answering a call of duty, and it was with a lot of reluctance that he did this.
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But the reason he did it was a sheer love of the country.
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So yeah, and I I know I'm you know, reading through, and you see it in the movie Young Washington too.
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As a younger man, he's very ambitious.
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Uh but his ambition was really militarily, but as he started to get those positions, he realized what leadership was about and that that it was about serving others.
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Absolutely grew and changed.
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So that was paragraph one.
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And I I'd recommend we'll just pause and say take four minutes, five minutes, and read read the speech.
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I think we're gonna link to it.
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Is that right, Bethany?
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We'll have a link in the show notes so you can go read it.
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Uh like I said, we're pulling out some excerpts.
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So the second paragraph, he says his first act as president is to appeal to God.
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So I'm gonna read this appeal and then then we'll we'll come back to a couple other things.
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He says, It would be peculi peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that almighty being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
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First thing he does.
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The second paragraph of his inaugural address, after he says, Yes, I'm here to serve, is he gives honor to God and recognizes that his duty, our duty as a country, where we are as a nation falls under the benevolence and the ruling of God Almighty, the Almighty Being.
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Yeah, I mean this one and and I'm Are we a nation founded on God, belief in God, Christian principles?
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We clearly are.
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And and in this, the first inaugural address, and a little foreshadowing here, I guess, he opens and closes in prayer, right?
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His speech starts with a prayer, ends with a prayer.
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It's it's pretty straightforward.
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So if we continue on with this in the second paragraph, the this is still the same paragraph I have down it.
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There's a continued appeal to the importance of acknowledging God.
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And this is what he says.
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In tendering this homage to the great author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either.
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No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
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He's saying right here, there is no people or no nation that should are in a position to more have more acknowledgement, um, more reflection on God, the importance of God in the development of that nation.
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Yeah, and that attention of those people.
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That is echoed by so many other founders.
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Um I was just reading Alexander Hamilton talking about it's impossible to look at the revolution and the American experiment without seeing God's invisible hand in it.
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James Madison saying the same thing.
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Like they were it was so clear to them.
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And and we've been in situations where you look back, right?
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And you're you look back and you say, clearly, God's hand was moving in this.
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There's no way that these things line up, that these people come together, that these events transpire the way they do, unless God is directing them.
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And and George is just very clearly stating like no people on earth outside of America could possibly have seen God's hand move and and understand his providence better than America.
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Absolutely.
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And then he closes out the second paragraph, which you already said the second paragraph is basically a prayer.
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It is to start the thing.
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So he calls to the people to join him in beginning this nation a free people under the blessing of Almighty God.
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So he says, he is in hope that you will join me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.
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What he's saying here is just there's no other place that a nation such as this of freedom, free men, could begin than under the leadership and the guidance of an oman.
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So that is just great.
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Now we move on to paragraph three.
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Have a couple things on this.
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He says, I be sure I behold the surest pledges that is on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views, nor party animosities will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye, which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests.
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And that's pretty clear.
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Yeah, and this is a big deal, right?
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You have all these states coming together, and they were concerned.
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They originally had this Articles of Confederation, it was kind of this loose uh affiliation, but now they've got this strong central government, and and the concern was, well, whoever's in charge is gonna just gonna do what's best for them.
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And he's saying, look, uh, I'm gonna serve all of America, right?
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Not just he's he's obviously from Virginia.
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Yep.
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He's not gonna rule the nation with a favoring eye to Virginia, right?
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He's gonna rule the the nation rightly.
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Uh and he wants that to lead uh lead and directed by a people who are moral, just and free.
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So his words here are the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality and the preeminence of a free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.
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I think that is really important.
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Now he's talking about the people.
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It is important for the people who are governed in a free society to privately, individually as people, to be moral.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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And we have that uh that quote from John Adams.
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Yeah, there I mean there are countless quotes, but that our form of government is totally incapable or inadequate for anything other than a moral and religious society.
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I mean, it and over and over again the founders realized that the the the kind of home base that you're starting from, that you're building on, is that we are a Christian nation.
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We are a collection of people who believe in God, who appreciate that our freedoms come from God, who are gonna operate with morality and integrity.
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And then the government builds on top of that.
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If you take that foundation away, that government doesn't work.
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So we have serving, reluctant servant, we have a prayer, a call to God to lead this nation, we have that he's gonna represent fair with no prejudices.
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Paragraph four, he restates his love for the country in his call to duty and the coming together of values to create a truly unique opportunity and in what he actually refers to as the experiment, the United States of America.
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So for uh love of country, answering the call, he says this I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire.
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I think if we called out I think the most frequent thing he calls out is his faith and reliance on Christ uh on God, divine providence, what have you.
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The second he calls out is his love for country.
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Um then he talks about what what I have down, you know, this uh actions tied to feelings or or maybe a cause and effect.
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And listen to this, Brian, I want to hear uh as as I read this your thoughts on this.
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He said there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity, which is happiness.
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So I think he lays out here, right?
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Virtue is a union between virtue, if you're virtuous, is gonna lead to happiness.
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Yeah, and and I think we've gotta understand virtue.
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To them, meant living by Christian principles and standards, right?
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It was those two things were tied together.
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So when you see virtue written, you need to read it as a Christian lifestyle.
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And this is one of the things we talk about, you know, in our faith.
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You look at at the Bible.
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And what to me, one of the things that proves the Bible is so clearly the Word of God is that if you live by what's laid out in scripture, it works.
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Right.
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Right.
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I mean, it it's just so obvious.
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You think about that.
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If the if the author of life gives you some guidelines, that if you put those into practice, it's probably good for you.
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It's gonna be good for you.
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And that that's what he's that's what I hear him saying.
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And that's just that's not a prosperity gospel where if you're Christian and you live good, everything good happens.
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There are hardships, challenges, struggles in life.
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But if you live by those principles, you're going to live a fulfilling, joyful life.
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Aaron Powell Yes.
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Just that the design that's laid out there, the design for a family structure of, you know, one man, one woman coming together and the way they run their family and the way you treat people, um, you know, love God and love others, put others' needs above yourself.
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You have this mentality of being others focused rather than self-centered.
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It's not about what can I get, but it's how can I serve.
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Those are the principles that lead to happiness.
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They don't always lead to success, and it doesn't mean you're not gonna get the same.
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That's what we call for in decoration.
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So you have virtue tied to happiness, you have duty tied to advantage, meaning if if you answer the call to duty, you do what you were responsible for, it is going to return good things in your life.
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And the maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, I'm gonna say this is the constitution and the solid rewards of public prosperity and happiness.
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So we are a constitutional republic, you're built on a good policy, and then you're gonna have public prosperity and happiness.
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He also in this paragraph calls out, uh refers back to what he calls the smiles of heaven.
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Here's what he says since we ought to no less to be no less persuaded on the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the internal rules of order and right, which heaven itself has ordained.
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That's pretty straightforward.
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I mean how can we expect the blessings of heaven if we're not if we're disregarding the rules of order and right?
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We can pause for a minute, we can take a look at society right now where we're calling wrong right, we're calling what is good bad, we're calling what is bad is good, we're calling men women and women men, we're we're confusing everything.
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And he very clearly says right here that that doesn't work.
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Right?
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You can't expect the blessings of heaven if you're disregarding the rules of order and right, which heaven itself ordained.
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Last thing in paragraph four, the preservation of liberty and the ultimate success of the Republic form of government lies solely in the hands of this new nation, the United States of America.
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So we government, because he's speaking to the Senate and the House, and he's also speaking to the people.
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He says, this and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
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This is where I say he calls it an experiment, and it is.
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It is.
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Nothing like this had ever been done.
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And the preservation of the fire of liberty, it it belongs to the the model of government we formed and the people.
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And I think to me, this is one of those things where I think they saw that it was bigger than just America, right?
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If if they do this right, then other people will see that, hey, this works, and hopefully that liberty and freedom and form of government will spread to other places.
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Not that they felt like, hey, it's our job to go change other nations, but to be an example, to be that shining city on the hill.
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Yeah, shining light.
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All right.
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Paragraph five uh addresses the Fifth Amendment.
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And the Fifth Amendment is the ability to change or alter the Constitution.
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And uh he's talking to the House and the Senate again in the people that the Constitution is placed in their care.
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He says it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution.
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I said, yeah, uh the fifth article, not fifth amendment, fifth article, uh, is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them.
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So inquietude's a good word there.
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Yeah, that's like unsettled.
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Yeah.
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So it is the people's responsibility to determine, and he does say occasional power.
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It'sn't something that should be used lightly, and uh, that you need to determine what are the unsettledness, what are the things that would urge you to change a system.
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I mean, with caution.
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Yeah, this is just that.
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It's a it's a warning to the Congress.
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Like, you've been given this power that you can change the Constitution, but don't do it uh lightly.
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That should be something that's done infrequently and only when there is something massive that needs addressed.
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And and he and he says that because his next line is I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment in pursuit of the public good.
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So, right?
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He's he's saying, You have the you have the opportunity, and I am trusting entirely your discernment and note for the public good.
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So last thing on this section, he's entrusting they will use it with great caution, keep the focus of change on two things protecting and preserving the rights of free men, keeping regard for public harmony.
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That's the only time this thing should be changed, to protect or preserve the freedoms we have, or to keep uh you know, to consider regard for public harmony.
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And I will say I was just checking to see I was right, 1992 was the last time it was amended.
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There are 27 amendments to the Constitution.
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The first 10 of right yeah, the Bill of Rights.
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Um in the 19th century, the 1800s, there were four more.
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The 20th century, uh, there were 12.
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There was kind of a run there in the early 1900s where we saw a good bit of change, and then the last one, there have been none so far this century.
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Yeah.
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So I I had another quote there, but I'm gonna skip that and go on to paragraph six.
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So this is you were referring to this earlier, Brian.
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Paragraph six addresses pay to the executive office.
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Yeah.
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And he refers back to not accepting pay when he was first called to serve in the military.
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Yeah.
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Because he didn't take pay, he only took his expenses.
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He would have expenses to record that and reimburse his expenses.
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So um here's what he says.
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When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, that's his call to serve in the war, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation, and that is pay.
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So he refused pay.
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This is astounding to me and so different than what we do today.
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We have politicians who come into office ordinary people, and they come out tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars.
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It is obvious corruption.
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It is obvious cheating, it is insider trading, it is illegal, improper donations, whatever you want to call it.
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It's sickening.
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Wherever first president served eight years in the war, didn't take pay, then serves as the president without pay.
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So what does he say?
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He says, uh, from this resolution, I have in no instance departed.
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Meaning the idea that he when he first served, he didn't want pay.
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Now he's being asked to be the president, he he's still of the same mind.
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He says, being still under this 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 executive department.
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How different do you think how different do you think our government would look if no one was paid?
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You know, you'd have you had people that actually cared about You'd have people that also that had to do something productive in order to be in a position to serve.
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Right?
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Like I mean, right?
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You look at these founders, like they didn't a lot of them didn't retire wealthy men.
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No.
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A lot of them served at the expense.
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Like, I mean, he still has an estate in Mount Vernon that's running, that he's got people managing, and it's providing some level of of income or or you know money for his to maintain, but he's not able to grow his business.
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He's not able to look at ways to enrich himself when he's serving the country.
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And think about this.
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How many of us, if if we're making a choice between doing something or not, and what I really want to do is this, but I'm gonna answer the request and do that, what do we say?
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It's like, I'm gonna make it worth my while.
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If I'm not gonna do that which I really want, somebody's gonna pay dearly for me to service or act in this role.
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He does just the opposite.
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He's walking away from what he truly wants, and he is rejecting pay for that which he is doing, for that which he's giving up his true desires.
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It's just I'm telling you, this was an amazing man.
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So, yeah, he said he must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station which I'm 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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So just just a note on this, it it does turn out that the Congress refused to let him not be paid.
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He was paid anyway, he was paid twenty-five thousand dollars for I think all eight years.
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Not each year.
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Right.
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But I I just looked it up.
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Four presidents refused to pay or donated their pay after serving.
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Who were they?
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Any guesses?
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I'm gonna guess Washington.
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Lincoln?
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Trump you got maybe Jefferson.
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That's close.
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Yeah, you had Washington, Herbert Hoover donated his entire salary, John F.
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Kennedy donated his entire salary, and Donald Trump again tried to refuse it and eventually donated his salary.
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I just that's an interesting note.
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There's something to be said for There's a different level of service in course of actions if your intent is truly to serve and not absolutely.
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Well, we talk about putting yourself ahead of others or putting others ahead of yourself.
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Yep.
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That's true servant leadership.
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So paragraph seven, then I call it the benediction.
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It's basically a prayer.
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And like you said, it started with a prayer, uh, paragraph two, and it ends with a prayer and appeal to God to bless this nation and its people.
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So I'll read the not the whole last paragraph, but part of it, it says, but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this government must depend.
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Again, we just look at what he's doing.
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It's a benediction.
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He's closing out in prayer, asking God's guidance, providence, and blessing over this nation.
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And just some of the wording I understand this is a public address, but uh it's just great wording.
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Not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race.
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It's really telling, you know, and you you look at again the first inaugural address opens with a prayer, closes with a prayer, this pure reliance on appreciation for the blessings of God on this nation, the understanding and the charge to the people that this is built on their virtue and morality, and then closing with a prayer, asking for God's continued blessing on America.
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I mean just beautiful.
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So, you know, that's it.
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Uh again, I would encourage you to read it and uh reflect on George Washington and what a truly great man he was, the leadership he provided this country.
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And rather than try to tear down the foundations this country was built on, let's actually learn what it was and let's support and build them up.
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And uh this is all worth protecting.
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So I think that's it.
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We're gonna come back and uh talk about maybe his farewell address and some few other things, but again, we encourage you to go check it out for yourselves.
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And if you haven't seen it yet, go watch The Young Washington.
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Young Washington's great.
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I don't go watch it.
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It's it's streamable.
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You can watch it at home.
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Streamable on Angel, and I don't know if you can watch it on Prime 2.
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Good stuff.
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And I'm hoping there's a sequel coming.
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They said there was.
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Alright, guys, God bless.
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Have a great week.
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This is the threadcall me reminding you that faith looks up, hope looks ahead, and love looks all around to see whom it can help.
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Good day.
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George Washington was a great man.
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He was amazing.
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The more I read, the more I study about who he was, what he did, how he led, the things uh he picked up that he didn't want to pick up, and the things he laid down that he didn't have to lay down, it's amazing.
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So, why would two guys leave comfortable jobs, move across the country, and start a business in an industry they don't know, a place they don't know?
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And could it be successful?
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We're Dale and Brian Carnegie.
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Joining us as we share our story and inspire you to become people of impact.
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Welcome to the Impact Without Limits Podcast.
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Welcome back to the Impact Without Limits Podcast.
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I am Brian Carnemy here with my brother Dale.
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Right here at AM.
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And we are ready for a fun-filled, exciting day of podcasts.
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We're gonna dive into George Washington's uh first presidency and really the inaugural press.
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Yes, we started as we're looking at the episodes of trying to figure out what we did, you know, what we're gonna talk about as we wind down the season.
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We had the thought of covering George Washington's presidency because it's the first, right?
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And he's good.
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I was gonna say we did two episodes on George Washington.
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We did on George Washington.
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It was very it was you you were wanting to dive into first potentially the most impactful human being to ever live outside of biblical characters, and we think in two half hour podcasts we pretty well covered it.
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Trust me.
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I'm reading a book that says it would take about 46 hours to get through George Washington.
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So we kind of we we wanted to hit his presidency, you know, start with the inaugural address, talk about some of the things he did because he did set the bar or set the framework for what a president is and does.
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Um, as I started digging into it, I think we got a whole episode just going through the inaugural address.
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Yeah.
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But before we do, we had a couple updates.
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Oh, we do.
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I don't want to do the first one.
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We kind of we we left a previous podcast on a cliffhanger.
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And again, the way this works, we record in segments, and the last time we recorded three or four episodes, and the kidney stone did not pass during that time.
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We we had a whole day of podcasting, and that puppy was.
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You even had on your stretchy pants.
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I did.
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And today you're better than I'm wearing jeans.
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What does that mean?
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That might tell you something.
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What it tells us is I sent King George packing.
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That's right.
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I named my kidney stone King George because he was unwanted and he was putting unwanted and unwelcomed influence over my life.
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King George is gone.
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He has been expelled and sent back to England.
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Actually, he's not sent back to England.
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He's in a little bottle.
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I was gonna bring it today and shake it on the air.
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You kept it?
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But I didn't.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It's in a bottle.
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I thought it was in the septic or sewer somewhere.
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There might be some fragments, fragments that made it there.
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But the main party.
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So I I uh we made it through the podcasting last time, medicine free.
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This time we're back.
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I'm a new man.
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We're ready to go.
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Wow, that is great news.
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But then we did have one slight correction, and I think if I remember right, this was uh we were talking about George Washington when he took over the Continental Army.
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Yes.
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And you had said 75.
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I think I actually corrected you and said 76.
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But then I agreed with your correction.
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It was 75.
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Yeah, it was he was appointed June 14th or 15th, 75, showed up in Boston and took command of the army in July, I think it was July 3rd, 1775.
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Um, because obviously I shouldn't say obviously, but based on what we talked about, it was the beginning of 76 when England, the England forces leave Boston, and then Washington goes down to New York, and then that leads to the incredible battles in the summer of 76.
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So anyway, we want to be right, we want to be accurate.
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When when we're sitting here talking and doing all these episodes, it's sometimes difficult to keep everything straight.
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So if we catch something we said that's wrong, we're gonna address it.
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That is our commitment to commitment to truth, honesty, and integrity.
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So what we did today, and this is kind of putting Brian on the spotlight here because as uh as we were mapping out, we were kind of frantically going through our notes and things.
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I mapped out the inaugural address, so Brian hasn't seen it yet.
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I just emailed him the notes.
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What what I really tried to do was just break it down, uh, I think it's seven or eight paragraphs.
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I would have to pull it up, but just each paragraph kind of hits a different point.
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So I talk about what the just a quick summary of what this paragraph is addressing, then I pull some quotes out of his speech from that paragraph we can read, and I just want to talk about it.
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I just want to let the studio audience know it's not that I was slacking here.
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I'm not sure.
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No, you were working on another.
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So there's gonna be another episode where I know absolutely nothing about I I'm kind of the color commentator here.
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You're calling the action, you're describing what's going on, and I see what you're doing colour.
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You're Tom Brady in this instance.
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You're the greatest of all time, and I'm just just a pretty face.
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Just the other announcer, we can't remember his name.
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So we'll see how this goes and what it's like.
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This isn't typically how we do our our um podcasts.
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Usually we map together and we're both pretty up to speed on what we're doing and what we're gonna talk about.
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So I'm gonna start.
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Uh look, I'm gonna say it again and again.
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George Washington was a great man.
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He was amazing.
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Uh the more I read, the more I study about who he was, what he did, how he led, the things uh he picked up that he didn't want to pick up, and the things he laid down that he didn't have to lay down.
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It's amazing.
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So um the first paragraph uh of the address is I have down it's Washington kind of saying that somewhat begrudgingly he's accepting this role.
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He wanted to, uh he had just spent uh eight years from 75 to 83 leading the army, fighting the war.
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Then out of that, uh he got involved in the Constitutional Convention, which ran for, I don't know what it was, a year or more developing the Constitution.
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And all he wanted to do was go back to Mount Vernon.
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He wanted to live with his wife, he wanted to ride horses, wanted to relax, wanted to enjoy retirement.
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And here again comes the call of duty.
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Um, and the reason he answered that call was because of his intense and immense love of this country.
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And at this time, this country was more of an ideal than an established country, right?
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Yep.
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I pulled this quote out.
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He says, I was summoned by my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
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And that was the call of people asking him to serve as president.
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And uh there was obviously an election.
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He was unanimously elected, but uh he had to be willing to throw his hat in the ring and say, I accept this call.
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And he did.
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And it wasn't because he wanted it, it wasn't because he wanted power, wasn't because he wanted to be the president and rule the country.
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What he wanted to do was step back and enjoy life, but he loved this nation so much, loved the ideals of what he had fought for, and what was this new experiment that he answered that call.
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And I just I'm gonna jump in real quick.
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I I think the interesting thing there is this idea of service, not of seeking power and position.
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We we look at politicians today that serve for 50 years or more, and and they see these offices as something they can climb to not direct that they can serve.
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And the model that was laid out by the founders was that these people in power who they they they were public servants.
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They worked for the people.
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We're gonna get to something on that a little bit later in here.
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It's it's amazing when we get to it.
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Yeah.
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But I think that's something to keep in mind as we get closer to elections, are we seeing people that are seeking power or are we seeing people that are looking for serve?
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Pretty easy to tell sometimes.
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One easy way is to see if they've ever done anything outside of the city.
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Yeah, have they ever had if all they've ever done is been a politician, kick him out.
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Sherrod Brown, kick him out.
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He's been doing this for 50 years.
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Name call and point fingers.
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This is insane.
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He knows nothing about business, about life, about okay, I'm off track.
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Let's go back to George Washington.
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So he was hoping to retire, or what he called, he was hoping to retreat or you know, live a life at his retreat.
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And he said this was desperately needed both for his personal health and just the enjoyment of life.
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So here is the the words of George Washington as he talks about this.
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He is answering this call, he's coming out, and this is quote, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
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So again, we have some other words.
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I understand like the the words used and the structure is different than what we would say today, and it might take a minute to get this.
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But what he's saying is he's getting called out of the life he was hoping to go to.
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Right.
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And he said his fondest predilection, his flattering hopes.
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Um, and why was he wanting to do this?
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He calls out the asylum of my declining years.
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What and what's that mean?
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I I take that like is as you start getting to the end of the life, you realize the years you have are shorter and shorter.
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And it's almost like this I don't know, trap.
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He says the asylum.
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Like, I only have so much time left, what I want to do with it.
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I'm going through that right now at age 61.
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I'm thinking, okay, I'm getting I'm getting closer here.
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Where do I really want to spend my time?
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We were just talking to somebody about that yesterday, right?
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About you put the hundred pennies on the table and you take off some and you keep taking them off.
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And when you look down and there's only how many pennies are on your table with pennies left.
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And you don't know that you're gonna get all those pennies, but that's like a best case scenario.
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So to to to make sure you understand the pennies are an analogy of years.
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So if you put 100 pennies down, it's one penny for every year.
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Most people don't live to be a hundred, they live to be eighty, so you pull 20 pennies off, you have 80 pennies left.
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Then you have, for me, I'm 61, so I've already lived 61 years, that gets pulled aside.
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I'm left with 19 pennies.
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Yeah.
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Like this is what you have.
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What are you gonna do with it?
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Why are you spending this?
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Yeah.
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So um but but he he talks about this retreat, not only was it desired, not only did want to do this, but it was necessary and more dear to him.
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Because the interruptions in his health and the gradual waste um, I guess, of his body committed on it by time.
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So again, Brian, you hit this.
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He wasn't president because it was something he was aspiring to do, and because he could achieve fame and glory and honor, and he could get a big paycheck and all this.
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He was answering a call of duty, and it was with a lot of reluctance that he did this.
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But the reason he did it was a sheer love of the country.
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So yeah, and I I know I'm you know, reading through, and you see it in the movie Young Washington too.
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As a younger man, he's very ambitious.
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Uh but his ambition was really militarily, but as he started to get those positions, he realized what leadership was about and that that it was about serving others.
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Absolutely grew and changed.
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So that was paragraph one.
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And I I'd recommend we'll just pause and say take four minutes, five minutes, and read read the speech.
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I think we're gonna link to it.
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Is that right, Bethany?
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We'll have a link in the show notes so you can go read it.
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Uh like I said, we're pulling out some excerpts.
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So the second paragraph, he says his first act as president is to appeal to God.
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So I'm gonna read this appeal and then then we'll we'll come back to a couple other things.
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He says, It would be peculi peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that almighty being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
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First thing he does.
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The second paragraph of his inaugural address, after he says, Yes, I'm here to serve, is he gives honor to God and recognizes that his duty, our duty as a country, where we are as a nation falls under the benevolence and the ruling of God Almighty, the Almighty Being.
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Yeah, I mean this one and and I'm Are we a nation founded on God, belief in God, Christian principles?
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We clearly are.
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And and in this, the first inaugural address, and a little foreshadowing here, I guess, he opens and closes in prayer, right?
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His speech starts with a prayer, ends with a prayer.
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It's it's pretty straightforward.
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So if we continue on with this in the second paragraph, the this is still the same paragraph I have down it.
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There's a continued appeal to the importance of acknowledging God.
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And this is what he says.
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In tendering this homage to the great author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either.
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No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
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He's saying right here, there is no people or no nation that should are in a position to more have more acknowledgement, um, more reflection on God, the importance of God in the development of that nation.
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Yeah, and that attention of those people.
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That is echoed by so many other founders.
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Um I was just reading Alexander Hamilton talking about it's impossible to look at the revolution and the American experiment without seeing God's invisible hand in it.
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James Madison saying the same thing.
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Like they were it was so clear to them.
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And and we've been in situations where you look back, right?
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And you're you look back and you say, clearly, God's hand was moving in this.
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There's no way that these things line up, that these people come together, that these events transpire the way they do, unless God is directing them.
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And and George is just very clearly stating like no people on earth outside of America could possibly have seen God's hand move and and understand his providence better than America.
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Absolutely.
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And then he closes out the second paragraph, which you already said the second paragraph is basically a prayer.
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It is to start the thing.
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So he calls to the people to join him in beginning this nation a free people under the blessing of Almighty God.
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So he says, he is in hope that you will join me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.
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What he's saying here is just there's no other place that a nation such as this of freedom, free men, could begin than under the leadership and the guidance of an oman.
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So that is just great.
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Now we move on to paragraph three.
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Have a couple things on this.
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He says, I be sure I behold the surest pledges that is on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views, nor party animosities will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye, which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests.
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And that's pretty clear.
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Yeah, and this is a big deal, right?
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You have all these states coming together, and they were concerned.
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They originally had this Articles of Confederation, it was kind of this loose uh affiliation, but now they've got this strong central government, and and the concern was, well, whoever's in charge is gonna just gonna do what's best for them.
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And he's saying, look, uh, I'm gonna serve all of America, right?
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Not just he's he's obviously from Virginia.
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Yep.
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He's not gonna rule the nation with a favoring eye to Virginia, right?
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He's gonna rule the the nation rightly.
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Uh and he wants that to lead uh lead and directed by a people who are moral, just and free.
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So his words here are the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality and the preeminence of a free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.
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I think that is really important.
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Now he's talking about the people.
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It is important for the people who are governed in a free society to privately, individually as people, to be moral.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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And we have that uh that quote from John Adams.
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Yeah, there I mean there are countless quotes, but that our form of government is totally incapable or inadequate for anything other than a moral and religious society.
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I mean, it and over and over again the founders realized that the the the kind of home base that you're starting from, that you're building on, is that we are a Christian nation.
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We are a collection of people who believe in God, who appreciate that our freedoms come from God, who are gonna operate with morality and integrity.
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And then the government builds on top of that.
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If you take that foundation away, that government doesn't work.
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So we have serving, reluctant servant, we have a prayer, a call to God to lead this nation, we have that he's gonna represent fair with no prejudices.
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Paragraph four, he restates his love for the country in his call to duty and the coming together of values to create a truly unique opportunity and in what he actually refers to as the experiment, the United States of America.
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So for uh love of country, answering the call, he says this I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire.
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I think if we called out I think the most frequent thing he calls out is his faith and reliance on Christ uh on God, divine providence, what have you.
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The second he calls out is his love for country.
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Um then he talks about what what I have down, you know, this uh actions tied to feelings or or maybe a cause and effect.
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And listen to this, Brian, I want to hear uh as as I read this your thoughts on this.
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He said there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity, which is happiness.
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So I think he lays out here, right?
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Virtue is a union between virtue, if you're virtuous, is gonna lead to happiness.
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Yeah, and and I think we've gotta understand virtue.
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To them, meant living by Christian principles and standards, right?
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It was those two things were tied together.
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So when you see virtue written, you need to read it as a Christian lifestyle.
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And this is one of the things we talk about, you know, in our faith.
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You look at at the Bible.
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And what to me, one of the things that proves the Bible is so clearly the Word of God is that if you live by what's laid out in scripture, it works.
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Right.
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Right.
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I mean, it it's just so obvious.
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You think about that.
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If the if the author of life gives you some guidelines, that if you put those into practice, it's probably good for you.
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It's gonna be good for you.
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And that that's what he's that's what I hear him saying.
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And that's just that's not a prosperity gospel where if you're Christian and you live good, everything good happens.
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There are hardships, challenges, struggles in life.
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But if you live by those principles, you're going to live a fulfilling, joyful life.
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Aaron Powell Yes.
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Just that the design that's laid out there, the design for a family structure of, you know, one man, one woman coming together and the way they run their family and the way you treat people, um, you know, love God and love others, put others' needs above yourself.
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You have this mentality of being others focused rather than self-centered.
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It's not about what can I get, but it's how can I serve.
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Those are the principles that lead to happiness.
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They don't always lead to success, and it doesn't mean you're not gonna get the same.
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That's what we call for in decoration.
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So you have virtue tied to happiness, you have duty tied to advantage, meaning if if you answer the call to duty, you do what you were responsible for, it is going to return good things in your life.
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And the maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, I'm gonna say this is the constitution and the solid rewards of public prosperity and happiness.
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So we are a constitutional republic, you're built on a good policy, and then you're gonna have public prosperity and happiness.
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He also in this paragraph calls out, uh refers back to what he calls the smiles of heaven.
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Here's what he says since we ought to no less to be no less persuaded on the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the internal rules of order and right, which heaven itself has ordained.
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That's pretty straightforward.
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I mean how can we expect the blessings of heaven if we're not if we're disregarding the rules of order and right?
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We can pause for a minute, we can take a look at society right now where we're calling wrong right, we're calling what is good bad, we're calling what is bad is good, we're calling men women and women men, we're we're confusing everything.
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And he very clearly says right here that that doesn't work.
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Right?
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You can't expect the blessings of heaven if you're disregarding the rules of order and right, which heaven itself ordained.
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Last thing in paragraph four, the preservation of liberty and the ultimate success of the Republic form of government lies solely in the hands of this new nation, the United States of America.
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So we government, because he's speaking to the Senate and the House, and he's also speaking to the people.
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He says, this and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
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This is where I say he calls it an experiment, and it is.
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It is.
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Nothing like this had ever been done.
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And the preservation of the fire of liberty, it it belongs to the the model of government we formed and the people.
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And I think to me, this is one of those things where I think they saw that it was bigger than just America, right?
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If if they do this right, then other people will see that, hey, this works, and hopefully that liberty and freedom and form of government will spread to other places.
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Not that they felt like, hey, it's our job to go change other nations, but to be an example, to be that shining city on the hill.
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Yeah, shining light.
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All right.
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Paragraph five uh addresses the Fifth Amendment.
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And the Fifth Amendment is the ability to change or alter the Constitution.
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And uh he's talking to the House and the Senate again in the people that the Constitution is placed in their care.
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He says it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution.
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I said, yeah, uh the fifth article, not fifth amendment, fifth article, uh, is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them.
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So inquietude's a good word there.
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Yeah, that's like unsettled.
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Yeah.
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So it is the people's responsibility to determine, and he does say occasional power.
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It'sn't something that should be used lightly, and uh, that you need to determine what are the unsettledness, what are the things that would urge you to change a system.
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I mean, with caution.
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Yeah, this is just that.
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It's a it's a warning to the Congress.
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Like, you've been given this power that you can change the Constitution, but don't do it uh lightly.
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That should be something that's done infrequently and only when there is something massive that needs addressed.
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And and he and he says that because his next line is I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment in pursuit of the public good.
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So, right?
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He's he's saying, You have the you have the opportunity, and I am trusting entirely your discernment and note for the public good.
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So last thing on this section, he's entrusting they will use it with great caution, keep the focus of change on two things protecting and preserving the rights of free men, keeping regard for public harmony.
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That's the only time this thing should be changed, to protect or preserve the freedoms we have, or to keep uh you know, to consider regard for public harmony.
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And I will say I was just checking to see I was right, 1992 was the last time it was amended.
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There are 27 amendments to the Constitution.
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The first 10 of right yeah, the Bill of Rights.
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Um in the 19th century, the 1800s, there were four more.
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The 20th century, uh, there were 12.
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There was kind of a run there in the early 1900s where we saw a good bit of change, and then the last one, there have been none so far this century.
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Yeah.
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So I I had another quote there, but I'm gonna skip that and go on to paragraph six.
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So this is you were referring to this earlier, Brian.
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Paragraph six addresses pay to the executive office.
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Yeah.
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And he refers back to not accepting pay when he was first called to serve in the military.
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Yeah.
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Because he didn't take pay, he only took his expenses.
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He would have expenses to record that and reimburse his expenses.
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So um here's what he says.
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When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, that's his call to serve in the war, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation, and that is pay.
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So he refused pay.
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This is astounding to me and so different than what we do today.
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We have politicians who come into office ordinary people, and they come out tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars.
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It is obvious corruption.
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It is obvious cheating, it is insider trading, it is illegal, improper donations, whatever you want to call it.
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It's sickening.
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Wherever first president served eight years in the war, didn't take pay, then serves as the president without pay.
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So what does he say?
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He says, uh, from this resolution, I have in no instance departed.
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Meaning the idea that he when he first served, he didn't want pay.
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Now he's being asked to be the president, he he's still of the same mind.
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He says, being still under this 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 executive department.
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How different do you think how different do you think our government would look if no one was paid?
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You know, you'd have you had people that actually cared about You'd have people that also that had to do something productive in order to be in a position to serve.
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Right?
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Like I mean, right?
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You look at these founders, like they didn't a lot of them didn't retire wealthy men.
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No.
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A lot of them served at the expense.
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Like, I mean, he still has an estate in Mount Vernon that's running, that he's got people managing, and it's providing some level of of income or or you know money for his to maintain, but he's not able to grow his business.
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He's not able to look at ways to enrich himself when he's serving the country.
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And think about this.
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How many of us, if if we're making a choice between doing something or not, and what I really want to do is this, but I'm gonna answer the request and do that, what do we say?
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It's like, I'm gonna make it worth my while.
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If I'm not gonna do that which I really want, somebody's gonna pay dearly for me to service or act in this role.
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He does just the opposite.
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He's walking away from what he truly wants, and he is rejecting pay for that which he is doing, for that which he's giving up his true desires.
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It's just I'm telling you, this was an amazing man.
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So, yeah, he said he must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station which I'm 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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So just just a note on this, it it does turn out that the Congress refused to let him not be paid.
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He was paid anyway, he was paid twenty-five thousand dollars for I think all eight years.
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Not each year.
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Right.
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But I I just looked it up.
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Four presidents refused to pay or donated their pay after serving.
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Who were they?
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Any guesses?
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I'm gonna guess Washington.
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Lincoln?
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Trump you got maybe Jefferson.
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That's close.
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Yeah, you had Washington, Herbert Hoover donated his entire salary, John F.
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Kennedy donated his entire salary, and Donald Trump again tried to refuse it and eventually donated his salary.
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I just that's an interesting note.
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There's something to be said for There's a different level of service in course of actions if your intent is truly to serve and not absolutely.
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Well, we talk about putting yourself ahead of others or putting others ahead of yourself.
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Yep.
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That's true servant leadership.
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So paragraph seven, then I call it the benediction.
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It's basically a prayer.
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And like you said, it started with a prayer, uh, paragraph two, and it ends with a prayer and appeal to God to bless this nation and its people.
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So I'll read the not the whole last paragraph, but part of it, it says, but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this government must depend.
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Again, we just look at what he's doing.
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It's a benediction.
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He's closing out in prayer, asking God's guidance, providence, and blessing over this nation.
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And just some of the wording I understand this is a public address, but uh it's just great wording.
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Not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race.
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It's really telling, you know, and you you look at again the first inaugural address opens with a prayer, closes with a prayer, this pure reliance on appreciation for the blessings of God on this nation, the understanding and the charge to the people that this is built on their virtue and morality, and then closing with a prayer, asking for God's continued blessing on America.
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I mean just beautiful.
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So, you know, that's it.
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Uh again, I would encourage you to read it and uh reflect on George Washington and what a truly great man he was, the leadership he provided this country.
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And rather than try to tear down the foundations this country was built on, let's actually learn what it was and let's support and build them up.
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And uh this is all worth protecting.
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So I think that's it.
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We're gonna come back and uh talk about maybe his farewell address and some few other things, but again, we encourage you to go check it out for yourselves.
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And if you haven't seen it yet, go watch The Young Washington.
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Young Washington's great.
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I don't go watch it.
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It's it's streamable.
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You can watch it at home.
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Streamable on Angel, and I don't know if you can watch it on Prime 2.
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Good stuff.
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And I'm hoping there's a sequel coming.
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They said there was.
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Alright, guys, God bless.
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Have a great week.
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This is the threadcall me reminding you that faith looks up, hope looks ahead, and love looks all around to see whom it can help.
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Good day.
