{"id":41037,"date":"2024-09-18T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41037"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:28:06","slug":"quote-of-the-day-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/18\/quote-of-the-day-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On the whole, Sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility&#8211;and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.&#8221;&#8211;He then moved that the Constitution be signed by the members and offered the following as a convenient form viz. &#8220;Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present the 17th. of Sepr. &amp;c&#8211;In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/press-pubs.uchicago.edu\/founders\/documents\/a7s3.html?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The arrogance of humanity, identified. My thanks to Professor Richardson for <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/september-17-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointing me at this quote<\/a>, delighting me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the whole, Sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility&#8211;and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.&#8221;&#8211;He then moved that \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/18\/quote-of-the-day-55\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41038,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}