It does take some courage to quell your doubts and to go up against the government, especially when you have been led all your life, to respect that government as if it were the Republic to which you swear allegiance, but remember, these elected people are the Hired Servants of the People and do not of themselves represent the Nation. We the People are the American Nation. As you know, it is the personal responsibility of each of us to preserve OUR Republic.
I like to remember the words of some of the true heroes of that original American revolution. -- RCR - USArmy Veteran - WWII
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned --- this is the sum of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - Thomas Jefferson.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams
The essence of a free government is an effectual control of rivalries. - John Adams
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