The adoption of the First Amendment, which accords religion (and no other manner of belief) special constitutional protection. (Munoz, Vincent Phillip. "THOU SHALT NOT POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? MCCREARY COUNTY, VAN ORDEN, AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS DISPLAY CASES" in Texas Review of Law and Politics)

George Washington, First Inaugural Address

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be 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. 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. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with 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 (George Washington, First Inaugural Address).

Oaklawn Park

Oaklawn Park, 9th, #3 (Noble's Promise), Show ($10.00), Also-Ran ($0.00).

Keeneland

Keeneland, 9th, #9 (Interactif), Show ($10.00), Fourth ($0.00)

Keeneland

Keeneland, 8th, #2 (Forever Together), Show ($10.00), Place ($13.00)

Santa Anita

Santa Anita, 2nd, #1 (Warren's Tony R.), Show ($10.00), Place ($21.00)

Sunland Park

Sunland Park, 3rd, #1 (Streakin Johnny Boy), Show ($10.00), Show ($14.00)

Keeneland

Keeneland, 6th, #2 (Silver Timber), Show ($10.00), Win ($13.00)

Austerity Britain: 1945-51 by David Kynaston

[After Labour's victory in 1945] The food turned even more to ashes in the mouth for the theatre critic James Agate, despite his best efforts after hearing the appalling news:

I rang up the head waiter at one of my favourite restaurants and said, 'Listen to me carefully, Paul.  I am quite willing in the future you address me as "comrade" or "fellow-worker", and chuck the food at me in the manner of Socialists to their kind.  But that doesn't start until tomorrow morning.  Tonight I am bringing two friends with the intention that we may together eat our last meal as gentlemen.  There will be a magnum of champagne, and the best food your restaurant can provide.  You, Paul, will behave with your wonted obsequiousness.  The sommelier, the table waiter, and the commis waiter will smirk and cringe in the usual way.  From tomorrow you will get no more tips.  Tonight you will be tipped royally.'  The head waiter said, 'Bien, m'sieu.'  That was at a quarter-past six.  At a quarter-past nine I arrived and was escorted by bowing menials to my table, where I found the magnum standing in its bucket and three plates each containing two small slices of spam!

Perhaps the most revealing detail, though, was Agate's rhetorical question: 'Who would have thought a head waiter to have so much wit in him?' (Kynaston, David.  Austerity Britain: 1945-51 (New York: Bloomsbury,  2008), pg. 76)

The Spirit of Modern Republicanism by Thomas L. Pangle

Our tastes or the things in which we take pleasure may be shifting; we may be endowed by nature with no clear order or hierarchy of inclinations; variety and change may in themselves be a chief constituent of human delight; but the pleasures we take in independence, or in the belief in our independence, would seem to be a relatively constant and a principal ingredient of human happiness. And this natural yearning for independence is most fully realized in the human being who is rational because educated according to the principles of Locke's treatise on education. Such a person understands his longing for independence, and lives in the light of this understanding: he sees that the longing for independence is truly fulfilled through the reasonable regulation of all the passions. Lockean man takes pride in this self-conscious, rational independence. It is here that he finds the source of his dignity. It is here that he finds the source of the grace or beauty of humanity, in himself and others...(Pangle, Thomas L. The Spirit of Modern Republicanism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pg. 264)