On CHRISTMAS, DECEMBER 24, 1946, President Truman stated: "Our ... hopes of future years turn to a little town in the hills of Judea where on a winter's night two thousand years ago the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled."
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -The American Crisis, December, 1776; "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." - Ronald Reagan
"The road took us to the most distant fountain of the waters of the Mighty Missouri ...
Private McNeal had exultingly stood with a foot on each side of this little rivulet and thanked his God that he had lived to bestride the mighty and heretofore deemed endless Missouri ...
They had now reached the hidden sources of that river, which had never yet been seen by civilized man."
"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added ...
Josephus concluded:"And so Judah and his fellow citizens celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the Temple for eight days ... They honored God, and delighted themselves with psalms of praise and the playing of harps. Indeed, they were so very glad at the revival of their customs and, after so long a time, having unexpectedly regained their right to worship, that they made it a law for their posterity that they should keep a festival celebrating the restoration of their Temple worship for eight days."
