Comments on: Guide to Celebrating Independence Weekend With Friends, Family, or Teabaggers

By: tx49holdem

tx49holdem — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:39:05 +0000

“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

By: tx49holdem

tx49holdem — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:34:21 +0000

“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

By: greenwarrior

greenwarrior — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:11:15 +0000

that’s an intense video. really, it’s heartbreaking. and it continues to be heartbraking.

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:24:22 +0000

But, but, James authored (in part) those federalist papers. /s

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:05:20 +0000

“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

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:57:24 +0000

I don’t have a quote, but I’d sure like to see something about “separation of church & state.”

Anyone?

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:45 +0000

I’ll start with one familiar and one not so familiar quote from wisdom quotes:

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (ATTRIBUTED):

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures.