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Politics
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An honest politician is one who, once bought, stays bought. By that defini-tion, a dishonest politician is one that is available only on short term lease.
The lefty politicians in congress are currently going gaga over the same corporate jet aircraft that they’ve been junketing on for decades. Apparently their leases have expired.
I think it’s due time for their congres-sional leases in D.C. to expire as well.
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Politics
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“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is
the whole people. To disarm the people
is the best and most effectual way to
enslave them.”
George Mason
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“You cannot defeat an enemy unless
you know who they are and what they
are willing to do in their pursuit of
your demise.”
Unknown (to me)
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Politics
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“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Alexander Hamilton
We live in a time when great efforts have been made, and continue to be made, to falsify the record of the past and to make history a tool of propaganda; when governments, reli- gious movements, political parties, and sectional groups of every kind are busy rewriting history as they wish it to have been, as they would like their followers to believe that it was.”
Bernard Lewis
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The Gettysburg Address
19 November 1863
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Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the propo- sition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate…we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow…this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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The Battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was fought on the first, second and third
days of July, 1863
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Note: The speech, in the original was not arranged in paragraphs but I have taken the liberty of dividing it so as to improve it’s readability.
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Constitution
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“Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the Constitution of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands – what has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again. Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution shall fail there will be anarchy throughout the world”.
Daniel Webster
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The Crisis
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“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated… “
Thomas Paine
23 December 1776
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