Statehood stamps

1787-1987 - Delaware




1787-1987 - Pennsylvania




1787-1987 - New Jersey




1788-1988 - Georgia




1788-1988 - Connecticut




1788-1988 - Massachusetts




1788-1988 - Maryland




1788 - South Carolina




1788 - New Hampshire




1788 - Virginia




1788 - New York




1789-1989 - North Carolina




1790-1990 - Rhode Island




1791-1941 - Vermont




1792-1942 - Kentucky





1796-1946 - Tennessee




1803-1953 - Ohio




1812-1962 - Louisiana




1816-1966 - Indiana




1817-1967 - Mississippi




1818-1968 - Illinois




1819-1969 - Alabama




1820-1970 - Maine




1821-1971 - Missouri




1835-1935 - Michigan




1836-1936 - Arkansas




1845-1945 - Florida




1845-1945 - Texas




1846-1946 - Iowa




1847-1947 - Utah




1848-1948 - Wisconsin




1850-1950 - California




1858-1958 - Minnesota




1859-1959 - Oregon




1861-1961 - Kansas




1863-1963 - West Virginia




1864-1964 - Nevada




1867-1967 - Nebraska




1876-1951 - Colorado




1889-1939 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington




1890-1940 - Idaho




1890-1940 - Wyoming




1907-1957 - Oklahoma




1912-1962 - New Mexico




1912-1962 - Arizona




1959 - Alaska




1959 - Hawaii

Charles Lindbergh on risk taking

Life without risks is not worth taking.

~ Charles Lindbergh

Lindbergh - "Spirit of St. Louis"
May 26, 1928

Tom DiLorenzo on Henry Clay: "corrupt statist"

[Henry] Clay was a corrupt statist who spent his political career promoting mercantilism, protectionism, inflationary finance through central banking, and military adventurism in the quest for empire. Upon entering Congress in 1811 he helped persuade the government to attempt to conquer Canada, which it tried to do three times. He waged a thirty-year battle with James Madison, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and other defenders of the Constitution over federally funded corporate welfare.

~ Tom DiLorenzo, "Henry Clay: National Socialist," The Free Market, March 1998

Henry Clay
1902-1903

Welcome to the Notable and Quotable stamp collection!

Commemoratives:

• 1893 Columbian Exposition (Scott #231-245, 400 year anniversary of discovery of America)
• 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition (#285-293)
• 1901 Pan American Exposition (#294-299)
• 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (#323-327)
• 1907 Jamestown Exposition (#328-330)
• 1909 Lincoln Memorial (#367-369)
• 1912-1913 Panama-Pacific Exposition, Perf. 12 (#397-400A)
• 1914-1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, Perf. 10 (#401-404)
• 1919 Victory Issue
• 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary (#548-550)
• 1923 Harding Memorial (#610-612)
• 1924 Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary (#614-616)
• 1925 Lexington-Concord Series (#617-619)
• 1932 Washington Bicentennial (#704-715)
• 1934 National Parks (#740-749)
• 1936-1937 Army and Navy Issue (#785-794)
• 1937 Territorial Series (#799-802)
• 1940 Famous Americans (#859-893)
• 1943 Overrun Nations
• 1945-1946 Roosevelt Memorial
• 1945-1946 Armed Forces
• 1950 National Capital Sesquicentennial
• 1957-1961 Champions of Liberty
• 1959 Lincoln Sesquicentennial
• Bicentennial
• Errors
• History
• Military and war
• Quotes and credos
• Statehood
• Space exploration

Regular issues:

• Series of 1867 (#92-101)
• Series of 1869 (#112-122)
• Series of 1870-1871 (#134-144)
• Series of 1890-1893 (#219-229)
• Unwatermarked Series of 1894 (#246-263)
• Series of 1895 (#264-278)
• Series of 1898 (#279-284)
• Series of 1902-1903 (#300-313)
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1908-1909
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1909 Bluish Paper
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1910-1911, Perf. 12
• Franklin Issues of 1912-1914, Perf. 12 Bold Colors (#414-423)
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1914-1915, Perf. 10 (#424-440)
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1916-1917, Perf. 10 (#462-480)
• Washington-Franklin Series of 1917-1919 (#498-518)
• Series of 1922-1925 (#551-573, 622-623)
• Series of 1923-1926, Perf. 10 (#581-591)
• Rotary Press Series of 1931 (#692-701)
• 1938 Presidential Series (#803-834)
• Liberty Series of 1954-1968 (#1030-1053)
• 1965-1968 Prominent Americans (#1278-1295)
• 1975-1981 Americana Series (#1581-1612)

Back of the book:

• Airmails (C1-?)
• Official Stamps (O01-O120)
• 1873 Department of Agriculture (O01-O09)
• 1873 Executive Department (O10-O14)
• 1873 Department of the Interior (O15-O24)
• 1873 Department of Justice (O25-O34)
• 1873 Navy Department (O35-O45)
• 1873 Department of State (O57-O71)
• 1873 Treasury Department (O72-O82)
• 1873 War Department (O83-O93)
• 1879 Treasury Department (O110-O113)
• 1879 War Department (O114-O120)
• Confederate States

Foreign stamps

People who show up prominently on U.S. postage stamps:

• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Washington

John Dewey on public schools and social change

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order.

~ John Dewey

John Quincy Adams: Go not abroad "in search of monsters to destroy"

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.  But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.  She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.  She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.  She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.  She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.  The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force...  She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit...

~ John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, speech honoring the 45th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 1821

John Quincy Adams
1825-1829

Rob Weir on government power vs. private power

Q: Do libertarians not agree that private power is (or at the very least, has the potential to be) equally as oppressive as government?  I don't understand this blindspot.

A: Would you acknowledge that, in theory at least, all the oxygen molecules in the room could simultaneously move into a single small portion of the corner of the room, leaving the rest of the room with just nitrogen and carbon dioxide, causing everyone in the room to immediately suffocate and die?

Talking about theoretical potential is quite a different thing than talking about reality, actual historical experience, and real-world odds.  In theory, I could drown in a bowl of soup. In reality, more people would die than would be saved if we banned soup.

In the real world, almost no one dies from the oppressive operation of private power.  In the real world, in the 20th century alone, 262 million people were killed by their own governments. 

Let’s get real here.  There is zero comparison between deaths from government versus from private powers. A company that screws up tends to go bankrupt and is essentially removed from power.  A government that screws up murders millions.

~ Rob Weir, Quora, November 11, 2019