Not only was Friedrich Shillers's "Ode to Joy" set to Beethoven's Ninth, but so was "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee," a hymn written in 1907 by Princeton professor Henry Van Dyke: "Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun above."
Washington added: "... that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place ... this Army must inevitably ... starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can."
Henry Van Dyke,The First Christmas Tree, 1906, of Saint Boniface - Wynfred chopped down Thor's oak tree: "''Bring the axes' ... they grasped the axe-helves and swung the shining blades ... A strong, whirling wind ... gripped the oak ... Backward it fell ... crashing as it split asunder ..." 'And here.' said he, as his eyes fell on a young fir-tree, standing straight and green ... Let us call it the tree of the Christ-child ..."
The words from President Richard Nixon's last public address, August 8, 1974, echo the warning to the present day: "In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy ... now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that ... the cradle of civilizationwill not become its grave."
Warning American students of the realities of socialism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn stated in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975:"In pre-revolutionary Russia ... there were attempts on the Tsar's life ... During these years about 17 persons a year were executed ... The Cheka - Lenin's Communist Secret Police ... in 1918 and 1919 ... executed, without trial, more than a thousand persons a month! ... At the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-38 ... more than 40,000 persons were shot per month!"
