Friday Photo: Rising Or Setting Sun?

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The remarks recorded by James Madison at the end of the Constitutional Convention:

Whilst the last members were signing it [i.e., the Constitution] Doct FRANKLIN looking towards the Presidents Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.

May it always be so, and the sacrifices and work of our Founders, including James Madison, not be in vain. We must defend our liberties valiantly against all that would touch that precious jewel, and do so with courage.

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Have a wonderful weekend, all.