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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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Pets

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

 Mark Twain

 

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

 Abraham Lincoln

 

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The Second Amendment

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“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

 
 
 

 Survival

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You cannot compromise with those

who intend your destruction!

 

Oddly, some will dispute that contention.  It is difficult to imagine such a mindset but, unfortunately, it seems fairly common in today’s world. 

 

Logic insists that if anyone expresses a desire to kill you, you must take them at their word and discussion, if any, is conducted with weapons drawn and

ready. 

 

To do any other is to place ourselves at a quite deadly disadvantage.  There are many in government today who would happily put us at that disadvantage.

 

When your adversaries would rather die than live, it is perhaps a great kindness to arrange it for them.

 

si vis pacem, para bellum

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Liberty

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

                                 ThomasJefferson

 Letter to William Stephens Smith,  13 November 1787

                                                      

 

 Losing liberties one at a time is like hair which isn’t always noticed or objected to until you wake up to find that you’re bald.

 

 

We have nearly reached that point where more than half the population has its nose in the public trough.  Beyond that point lies disaster when the producers, unable to improve their lot, give it up and join them in feeding at the trough.

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Politics

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“Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy”.

                                                                                                      –                              -Winston Churchill – 

                                             (1942)

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Politics

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“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within.

 

An enemy at the gates is formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city, but the traitor moves freely among those within the gates, his sly whispers rustling through the alleys and heard in the very halls of government itself.

 

He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist..”

                                          – Cicero –