This spirited new musical is American history...but with a 'Forrest Gump'-type twist, as Liberty Smith, an everyman hero and the 'forgotten' founding father, crosses paths with historical giants and influences great events in funny and unexpected ways.
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt...
If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion