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john churchill, duke of marlborough, and american president who was a descendant of hudson valley dutch petrels. we don't know whether and in october 1894, calvin coolidge argued that america owed more to england or to holland, but to given their histories were braided together in the risky enterprise of the glorious revolution. ironic that we owe much of what we hold dear to both of them. thank you. michael. thank you. our second speaker is samuel gregg. you will find sam's full biography in your program. sam is the highest chair in economics and history at the american for economic research and contributing editor at law and liberty. but it is on the scottish thought that sam is really an expert. he will speak to us today about adam smith and the influence of scottish thought on the founders. thank you. well let me begin by the coolidge foundation and its president amity shlaes and the generous sponsors. the opportunity to speak at this conference. it's a pleasure to be here. so 1776 was a momentous year for. many reasons, and not just because of what americans annually commemorate on

[applause] yesterday, i met with over 200 high school seniors and hudson -- from hudson valley communityollege students from all over the capital district. they shared their hopes and questions about the future. i won't tell you about them, let's hear from them directly. >> today we will dive into the big ideas from your state of the state that directly impact us, the students and young people of new york. one of the things that on top of all this pressure that we feel -- peer pressure, etc. deciding what we will do with the rest of our lives, you touched on a little bit of what students are dreading as they look to the future. in light of the ongoing national debate on abortion rights, how do you plan to position new york as a safe haven? if you could speak to what this first-rate -- first aid training program aims to do? what kind of initiatives do you plan to take to mitigate the effects in new york? many of us in this room are looking to the future whether it is college or whatever path we choose. [applause] >> my visit yesterday was a reminder of who we are fighting for, and that we

the hudson valley finally officially an american citizen in 1804. by 1821.he would become americanized that hardly anyone noticed when he gave an address to the renzulli county agricultural society on the means for opening sources of wealth for the northern states. or when he was elected to the of the literary and philosophical of new york. a decade later, johnny would be waiting peacefully on his hill for alexis de tocqueville. and he would die there in. peace. three years later, on the 45th anniversary of bastille day, his great grandson, edmund shaw clinton, johnny, would be the first american casualty of world war one. in the same year that johnny gave rensselaer county address john quincy would remark that americans do not go abroad in search of monsters destroy. in the case of edmund charles. in a. adams might have added that it does not even turn those have tried to undermine it into monsters either. is a generosity in the american republic experiment absent from so many other modern revolutions, a generosity which reached its high mark and lincoln's