Whether you are planning on spending time with a band of hippies or infiltrating the teabaggers this weekend, there are things you can do for your country. Print out, distribute, and or read aloud from The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, or a collection of quotes from our countries Founding Fathers.
Guaranteed to do more good than fireworks.
What famous quotes would you most like to hear spread about the land this weekend?
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I’ll start with one familiar and one not so familiar quote from wisdom quotes:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (ATTRIBUTED):
I don’t have a quote, but I’d sure like to see something about “separation of church & state.”
Anyone?
“Practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government is essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”
James Madison
But, but, James authored (in part) those federalist papers. /s
that’s an intense video. really, it’s heartbreaking. and it continues to be heartbraking.
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”
John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775
And, in the spirit of the above quote I find the following Charlie Chaplin segment to be exceptionally outstanding- taken from his movie The Great Dictator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqnk4qNlAZk