Benjamin Banneker Quotes
Among the many defects that have been pointed out in the Federal Constitution ... is an office for promoting and preserving perpetual peace in our country.... Let a Secretary of Peace be established.
In 1799 the same article appeared again under the name of Dr. Benjamin Rush who may have plagiarized the original or, as some argue, may have actually authored the 1792 article.
Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806, Publisher & Scientist, Banneker's Almanac, 1792
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Such a proposal was first made in America in 1792. See Benjamin Banneker.
The documentation of this quotation comes from a memorandum summarizing the meeting written by Presidential aide Harry Hopkins.
There were many who thought that the Russians would view the Mutual Security Act as aggressive and they might respond with some kind of aggressive retaliation and this could lead to war. Others felt that containment would reduce the likelihood of war.
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
