FFQF: John Adams Goes to Spain

See what’s up with today’s FFQF at Meet the Founders blog Hands down, I think the venerable John Adams was the most humorous of the founding fathers. Adams had a deliciously dry and wry wit which seemed to ooze from his masterful brain out of his pen onto the parchment. He was perceptive, extremely thoughtful, [...]

FFQF: Funny Ben Franklin

See what’s up with today’s FFQF at Meet the Founders blog Ben Franklin was one of the wittiest of the founding fathers. Here are some wise and witty things he wrote. “Those who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.” “Fish and visitors stink after three days.” “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for [...]

FFQF: A Soldier’s Humor

See what’s up with today’s FFQF at Meet the Founders blog This week’s Humor quote is coming from one of our “little guy” founders– a soldier in the Revolution named Joseph Plumb Martin. He wrote a book of his wartime experiences, called The Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin. The book is hilarious! For an [...]

FFQF: The Hilarious John Adams

See what’s up with today’s FFQF at Meet the Founders blog The theme for this month is Humor. This is going to be a fun one! Did you know that America’s founding fathers were quite the cut-ups? Indeed! They were not like the stodgy, stuffed-shirt, two-faced fuddy-duds that fill our halls of legislation today, nay! [...]

FFQF: Lex Rex

See what’s up with today’s FFQF at Meet the Founders blog Today’s FFQF continues “moral authority.” Where is the basis for the precepts of “religion” and “morality” that America’s founding fathers incessantly spoke of? On what basis did it derive and how is this connected with our form of government? James McHenry, a signer of [...]

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